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Mötley Crüe? Soft lads. There was an issue of Warhammer that had a flexi-disc with a thrash metal track: "Blood for the Blood God" by Sabbat. https://www.you

Mötley Crüe? Soft lads. There was an issue of Warhammer that had a flexi-disc with a thrash metal track: "Blood for the Blood God" by Sabbat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39sAIzrbmk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39sAIzrbmk8 Which is best described as "magnificently unlistenable" [0] I got the flexidisc to play only a couple of times, and mercifully never in the presence of my mother (who was also an RE teacher, though not the one I mention in my other comment) [0] to repurpose a review quote that was on the shrinkwrap cover of Guns by the British indie-prog-punk-marvel, Cardiacs

pessimizer 5y ago
GW must have specifically designed the Warhammer RPG/canon to match the nightmares of religious parents. When we found it, we were done with D&D. Now we had a table to roll on to find out specifically what our critical hit did to the enemy in gory detail.
- unfocussed_mike 5y ago
  Warhammer (and to some extent the Fighting Fantasy universe) was also funnier -- more irreverent, bleaker humour, more provocative. Anyone who was offended by the content was doubly offended by the trolling. While one of my secondary school teachers was telling us we were dabbling with the occult, another (a beloved english teacher) enjoyed the imagination of it and wanted to be taught how to play Chaos Marauders so that he wouldn't lose to his nephew.
SketchySeaBeast 5y ago
If we're talking about Warhammer, are we ignoring the bank Bolt Thrower, an early 90's death metal band devoted to 40k, who included cover art from Games Workshop itself, and included such albums as "Realm of Chaos", and the songs "Profane Creation", "Lost Soul Domain", "Drown in Torment", and "Prophet of Hatred"?
- unfocussed_mike 5y ago
  IIRC the Bolt Thrower association goes back to before 40K, but my memory is hazy. 40K is, if you ask me, the first hint of the beginning of the end of Warhammer (quite early on). Though I did have a go at the Adeptus Titanicus stuff. The high point for me was WFRP. I found my 1986 hardback first edition of that the other day.

pessimizer 5y ago

GW must have specifically designed the Warhammer RPG/canon to match the nightmares of religious parents. When we found it, we were done with D&D. Now we had a table to roll on to find out specifically what our critical hit did to the enemy in gory detail.

unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Warhammer (and to some extent the Fighting Fantasy universe) was also funnier -- more irreverent, bleaker humour, more provocative. Anyone who was offended by the content was doubly offended by the trolling. While one of my secondary school teachers was telling us we were dabbling with the occult, another (a beloved english teacher) enjoyed the imagination of it and wanted to be taught how to play Chaos Marauders so that he wouldn't lose to his nephew.

SketchySeaBeast 5y ago

If we're talking about Warhammer, are we ignoring the bank Bolt Thrower, an early 90's death metal band devoted to 40k, who included cover art from Games Workshop itself, and included such albums as "Realm of Chaos", and the songs "Profane Creation", "Lost Soul Domain", "Drown in Torment", and "Prophet of Hatred"?

unfocussed_mike 5y ago
IIRC the Bolt Thrower association goes back to before 40K, but my memory is hazy. 40K is, if you ask me, the first hint of the beginning of the end of Warhammer (quite early on). Though I did have a go at the Adeptus Titanicus stuff. The high point for me was WFRP. I found my 1986 hardback first edition of that the other day.