The Recent Warframe Soundtrack Has Been Awesome
One of the biggest things I loved about Whispers in the Walls was the soundtrack. It’s been absolutely awesome as of late. Honestly, Warframe’s soundtrack has been steadily improving over the years, and Whispers in the Walls takes it to the next level. While I was never really a fan of the opera-like soundtrack of Duviri, the Zariman and the Cavia have both had amazing tracks that nail their environments. The Murmur in particular, their music is filled with mystical, terrifying chanting in the Void Tongue, the language of the Man in the Wall. We have these combinations of harsh and soft voices, both male and female, all almost screaming at us in words we don’t understand. There are some words we can pick out (Oull and Xata for example, from the Requiem Mods used to kill Kuva Liches) but most of it is completely foreign.
Still, that makes it oddly… I don’t know, desirable? I find myself wanting to sing along. And I do. I’ve even typed out the lyrics while waiting for people to start the fight against the Fragmented One. It’s catchy. In both a good and a bad way.
The track that really gets me though is the login music. The login music for Warframe changes with every update, and it’s a real shame that we lose it because pretty much every single track is amazing. Unlike the rest of the Void Tongue music, the voice in this track is utterly hypnotic. I have found myself unintentionally sitting on the login screen, just listening to this on loop.
Alongside Whispers in the Walls, we also got a deluxe skin for Sevagoth. Which was why there were a bunch of alerts giving him away back in December. Most people don’t do Void Storms because they can be kinda slow if you aren’t doing specific Grineer nodes, meaning they never got around to getting Sevagoth and his weapon, Epitaph. But you need the Warframe to use the deluxe skin, so they made him briefly easily available so people would buy said skin. However, alongside the skin, they also released a remix of Sleeping in the Cold Below, named Sevagoth’s Lullaby. While I do kinda miss the lyrics, and Sevagoth’s Lullaby isn’t as long, it’s still a really nice twist of the original song. You can also kinda sing along as well if you know the lyrics.
And then there’s Gauss: Redline. This track comes straight out of the Gauss Prime – Prime Access trailer, and it’s a real banger. I’d say that it’s a bit of a deviation of what we normally get in Warframe, what with it having actually vaguely recognizable lyrics in English of all things. Sure, we’ve had tracks with singing in it, in English as well, but most of those have been songs for large updates, not a Prime Access release. Plus, we rarely get music tracks released alongside Prime Access in general, so that IS a change. Still, Gauss: Redline is a fucking awesome track, my only problem is that it’s a bit short.
Annoyingly, most of these tracks aren’t out on Spotify yet, so it makes my listening experience a little awkward. At least they’re all on Youtube though, so I can listen to them on loop. Normally the Youtube Mix system sucks, but for music, it’s okay, I guess.
Still, the Warframe sound team have been fucking amazing lately, and I have no idea what they’re going to do when it comes to Warframe 1999. From what we’ve seen so far, Warframe 1999’s reveal used an already existing song, Into the Void by Nine Inch Nails, so it’s curious where we might go from here.