That One Time Games Workshop had a Record Label - Codex Compliant

[@LongWarEnjoyer]

Bolt thrower is actually one of the best OG death metal bands out there, I highly recommend.

[@kyubimage9526]

I can't wait for Fighting Evil is Cool! to put out their next album "Inquisitor Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau!"

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

Scott Piazza maybe they could get a GW sponsor . Emperor knows they have given them enough free press.

[@crosbyethan2761]

You all prolly dont care but does someone know a way to log back into an instagram account?? I somehow lost the account password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me!

[@elliottdaxton7930]

@Crosby Ethan instablaster ;)

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

I swear if Codex Emperor's Children comes out and none of these tracks are used during the announcement trailer, there will be DISAPPOINTS.

[@cthulhupthagn5771]

they should package it with a cd

[@Marinealver]

Blood for the Blood God?

[@mrpeanut4075]

Noise marines

[@AndrewSmithThomas]

Well greetings, hello / from the Emperor's Children / mighty pleased to meet cha / we'll show you all the sights ...

[@cpt.s.seiden]

HERE COME, HERE COME, HERE COME THE NOISE MARINES!

[@emzetkin1100]

The main riff to World Eater is easily one of the best death metal riffs ever.

[@martincann5052]

A few years ago, on a wet and rainy games night, a guy came into our local GW with a a box full of old White Dwarfs for us to do with as we willed and I remember one of them was indeed No. 95...complete with the flexi-disc. I feel like I might have erred in not taking that one as part of my own stash.

[@heroofsparta]

Jesus last time I was this early leman Russ was still a general !

[@raymondhamill270]

Last time I was this early Prospero wasn't burning

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Last time I was this early, Lorgar was a loyalist.

[@danwilkinson5239]

You mean leman Russ was an inch and a half tall and made of lead

[@lemonnomel9416]

I feel like most intellectual properties that began around 40+ years ago were all doomed to try a record label and be remembered as, yeah that was kind of good, but would ultimately be forgotten.

[@imperialus1]

Or, as Dungeons and Dragons and Battletech both evidenced... A Saturday morning cartoon.

[@Marinealver]

5:45 "Lust Lobsters" That must be a reference to the ancient Demonette models which were uglier than nurgle.

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Which are still my favourite Daemonettes. Lobster-fisted nutcases!

[@proto303]

oh my goodness, a ska-punk warhammer 40k album, released by GW and made by you four would be amazing!

[@bentilbury2002]

Yes! Though they'd have to change their name to "Burning Heretics is Righteous" or something 😁

[@youdontneedtoseehisidentif4939]

Why did they not do a vinyl release shaped like the star of chaos..? _Why..?_ ;_; (I mean, Judas Priest did a vinyl release (of I think Painkiller?) shaped like a buzzsaw blade…)

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

It was more expensive, as they couldn't be moulded with the normal machines.

[@iamkookie37]

That Bolt Thrower album is great. I’ve been hoping I’ll stumble across an original in a record store someday.

[@Outcast115]

Good luck, please let us all know if you come across one

[@Donnerbalken28]

A good friend of mine actually has those. Rare is an understatement.

[@THExRISER]

Lucky.

[@Donnerbalken28]

@@THExRISER What's crazy is how he got them... and a bit sad. Someones husband died, and the wife sold all his warhammer stuff to cover the funeral. He gave my friend the vinyls as an extra, because she didn't like metal that much.

[@THExRISER]

Oh I see,that's unfortunate,but at least they're in good hands right?

[@richardcrook2112]

I still have all of them except Rich Rags which I don't remember. The classic British rock band UFO were meant to do an album with them - after Saxon I think, but it never happened.

[@jsidaho1957]

Long live Bolt Thrower and thanks for the trip down memory lane! \m/

[@kdisley]

I had a friend who bought the vinyl LP of *"Oblivion"* by *D-Rok* and recorded it on tape for me (back in the days that was still a thing) because I was poor... we were both huge Queen fans and so loved the Brian May connection, and we had gotten into campy AOR music that dubiously called itself "met-aaaal" through the Bill & Ted movies, so it was right up our alley. Being teenagers that were hugely into *Space Marine* and *WH40K* at the time, I should mention in our defence that we were also still in secondary school and therefore extremely impressionable. Partly because of nostalgia for the music itself and partly because of the references to old GW games like *Dark Future* (which was still just about clinging to a fading existence with the novels in that last fleeting moment of its cultural relevance), I have to say I still find this a good listen - I still occasionally get a random guitar hook or lyric in my head and have to go find the tracks on KZbin and listen to them a couple of times to exorcise them from my brain. I never sat down and read the DF novels, so it was the lyrics of *"King Hibited"* that got me interested in the setting... even if it was too late to actually get hold of the game itself by then. Particular stand-out tracks for me are *"Turn This Ship Around"* and *"Red Planet Blues",* both of which benefit from not being so try-hard about shoehorning in GW-related lyrics; those two tracks in particular sound like they were written out of genuine inspiration by the source material rather than references being nailed on after the fact as fan-service in songs like *"Welcome To My World"* and *"Noise Marines"* (with the very first Slaaneshi Noise Marine figure coincidentally released and heavily promoted by GW at the exact same time as the album with some hastily slapped-together rules in White Dwarf... funny, that). All in all, D-Rok's *"Oblivion"* is an inoffensively good album given its time and circumstances, even if it's nowhere near as thrashy and heavy as the rest of Warhammer Records' output. It's served up with a huge heap of cheddar cheese on top and it's more Sunday afternoon pub-band than riotous metal anarchy (although they do try their best, bless their little cotton socks), but it's good for a fun listen and a guilty pleasure once in a while, basking in the nostalgic glow of the days when GW was still a loose conglomerate of wargame and RPG systems with a miniatures company tacked on afterwards rather than a monolithic entity with a Disney-like stranglehold on the entire hobby. In some ways the album reminds me of *"Vision Thing",* the last studio album by *The Sisters Of Mercy* (although not as over-produced and without the Meatloaf overtones from collaborator Jim Steinbeck). So if you're into that sort of thing, I would highly recommend it... and for the other 99.987% of the world's population who aren't into that very exact sort of thing, give it a bit of a chance and be thankful it wasn't as bad as it could easily have been.

[@Outcast115]

Okay so the fact that you compare it to Vision Thing is definitely the thing that sold me into listening to it

[@TheFifthHorseman_]

I found out about "Get Out Of My Way" thanks to its' inclusion in the title sequence of the PC version of Space Hulk.

[@enzovignati]

The silence of GW about these past events offends slaanesh

[@charlotteeo7803]

Love to learn about the more obscure GW history bits - great research and video folks! :D

[@moschops2002]

I worked for GW around this time, in the retail chain. D-Rok stuff couldn't be shifted, despite us having to push it as much as we could. There's probably a box in the back of the older stores full of that crap. The Hungry Trolls? Well, you want to get hold of the 4 troll games, that all had a cassette in them. Trolls In The Pantry is the only name I can remember, but I'm sure there were 4 of them - these were nursery rhyme type songs, done by people in the GW studio, and are quite probably buried somewhere so no-one can hear them again. Wraith played Bloodstock in 2013 - no sign of anything to do with GW now.

[@derpimusmaximus8815]

Oi! Dat's My Leg! I still have the game, though I can't find the cassette. It's a fantastic drinking game.

[@moschops2002]

@@derpimusmaximus8815 Squelch! Was another, and the 4th was simply called Hungry Troll. And yes, they were great for drunken nights when other games became too difficult haha

[@GelatinousStube]

moschops2002 Someone uploaded the troll games songs to their channel... kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKOnfqSpqNCmipY

[@richardcrook2112]

That D-Rok album sucked! The Batfish Boys were great though.

[@OptimusShr]

I am going to form a grimdark polka band now. You have inspired me.

[@AndrewSmithThomas]

Get in touch with Weird Al Yankovic, he might guest star.

[@se7en00110111]

Recently picked up a bootleg Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos shirt at a fest with the Rogue Trader artwork on it.

[@fulgrimtheilluminator2392]

Ahh, Realm of Chaos. Hell yes. What an album.

[@AlexBergPlays]

World eater will forever be the 40k theme song for me.

[@waldarbeiter]

Bolt Thrower got the Soundtrack of Warhammer right

[@adeptaadepta4733]

This silence offends Slaanesh!

[@stargazer1041]

WHY ARE YOU WHISPERING!?

[@Alemphonix]

THINGS ARE GOING TO GET LOUD NOW!

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

*YOU INTERRUPT?!?*

[@proto303]

DO YOU HEAR THE VOICES TOO?

[@BriarLeaf00]

The fact you guys have to explain what a flexi is makes me feel so, so incredibly old. I was literally playing a dropdead flexi the other day from the mid 90s.

[@OPTTWoodrow]

My Aunts brother is Paul Quinn from Saxon. I have only met him once at a family gathering and he pretty deaf from all those years of touring and mainly kept to himself. If I ever meet him again I will see if he remember anything from this period in Saxon's history.

[@DrBochen]

1:09 UHH. Debauchery. Saw them live once. Just awesome those guys. I would say that about 30% of their songs are about Warhammer in some way, shape or form. "Blood for the blood god" and "Ironclad declaration od war". They even have their own Miniatures if i'm not mistaken. I can guatantee that every one that just remotely likes Warhammer or Deathmetal will absolutely love those guys. Greetings from Germany btw. love your content.

[@Feral_Noir]

I still have my D-Rok album on vinyl....

[@theshuttingdowns]

I have it on cassette, still works fine :)

[@Phreakdoubt]

Jeez I've been looking at that piece of art that was on the D-Rok cover since the 80's and I have never, until now, seen the Scarface rip-off. Now I can't unsee it. Thanks guys.

[@BrotherCaptRob]

I spy a statue Wraithlord in the background! Good job Wib! Can't wait to see how much you've painted in August!

[@lilburnelevel3109]

That Bolt Thrower album is one of my go to back ground albums when playing 40k. Also kicking myself for not getting a shirt when seeing em.

[@davedogge2280]

Bolt thrower are better than Def leppard

[@jmagowan12]

👆👆👆👆👆😍

[@hellinterface6721]

no shit. Def leppard is for chicks dancing in titty bars. Bolt thrower is well... for throwing fucking BOLTS!!! Bolt thrower is one of the best death metal bands to do it TBH. Aside from "Death", bolt thrower might be one of the heaviest Death metal bands to ever do it. More black metal than most black metal bands. Crushing.

[@AndrewSmithThomas]

Heresy!

[@euansmith3699]

What a great, fun archaeological exploration of my teenage years.

[@Cmonster-u4i]

WTF! That’s Al Pacino!! I will never be able to un-see that now!!! Mind blown!!

[@LongWarEnjoyer]

John Blanche was friends with literally anyone who was cool in the 80’s.

[@dominickirwan7436]

Always felt like a bit of an outsider back when I played 40k everyone was into Slayer and Korn and there was me into Sonic Youth and Aphex Twin.

[@ericconnor8419]

That is still acceptable. When I was a teenager I was into Meatloaf, Chris De Burgh and Simon and Garfunkel (I took my music taste from my mum's record collection) Surprisingly I am straight but I used to get bullied a lot. Vinyl is fashionable now, it was not in the early 90s.

[@mcstabba]

I have the original Realm of Chaos on CD featuring glorious Crimson Fists! One of the later Bolt Thrower albums Honor Valour Pride has a cover that seems a bit 40k inspired (featuring a weapon that looks a lot like a bolt gun) and their Warmaster album have what looks somewhat like a fantasy chaos warband on its cover. Great series this Codex Compliant! Enjoy a lot! Been binging these videos the last few days.

[@BetweenDD]

Can I just say how happy I am to have recently discovered your channel. And I now have so many videos to binge, haha. Keep up the great work!

[@bdablader95]

I know this is a GW record lable video, but you guys missed a HUGE new band called The Contradiction! They're a Horus Heresy era metal band whose music is about the Thousand Sons and Space Wolves. Raptora, Ahriman's Rubric of Dust, Crimson King, and Red Cyclops are just a few of their fantastic songs!

[@dustinzaccaria7644]

This was very interesting. I’m glad I found your channel after doing a search on KZbin for 2nd Ed content, but have learnt so much about GW subsequently.

[@Bcolecon]

I had Bolt Thrower on cassette. I would blast it full volume while I painted my original beakies. Ah, the good old days.

[@anotherzingbo]

1st edition Space Marine was the first game I bought from Games Workshop so no matter whether cries of "tracer!" can be justifiably shouted at the artist, that picture will always occupy a special place in my heart.

[@grahamcarpenter5135]

I wonder if the name of the genestealer cult Pauper Princes was inspired by Rich Rags, especially since they had GSCs on the album artwork.

[@LJW1912]

It's incredible how the album's art makes it sound completely different

[@gianlucar3468]

The first BT album (before official collaboration) already has some Warhammer references, it's called "In battle there is no law"

[@Haanzer]

Entertaining and informative, as ever! I think Generation Bubblegum Hell might be the greatest song I've ever heard.

[@Britech]

"Yeah, but I bet they don't mention Bolt Thrower, no one ever talks about Bolt Throw....oh."

[@Tareezo]

Realm of Chaos was most definitely sold in stores. Both Rogue Trader cover and, um, the other one. It's around here - somewhere ...

[@brandonaughtman9091]

Let's just get a huge CD Album with music for all factions! Heavy Metal for Space Marines, Black Metal for Chaos, Holy Quire for Sisters of Battle, Glam Metal for Emperor's Children etc.

[@salamanda550]

Not gonna lie.....Fighting Evil Is Cool! And GW together would be very interesting to hear......

[@asteroidrules]

Man would this clash with the music GW plays in their store overheads nowadays, it's mostly LoTR soundtrack and orchestral pieces (my store particularly uses a lot of Final Fantasy mixes), though I think they did add the Mechanicus soundtrack as well which although a different genre would still sound nothing like this.

[@neverness92]

This was brilliant! Glad that I (was at least one person that) requested you guys do this; and you did it better than I had hoped!

[@dazbry7612]

They did play slot of this music in my local store, way back in the late 90's

[@liamjay6844]

I never thought I would see The March Violets mentioned in a Games Workshop related video but I approve.

[@timomatic6226]

Link that emperor damned shirt, damnit!!! PS: good video as always guys. Love your stuff

[@Batlord_Carcas]

I am a fan of March Violets and Bolt Thrower. Fun fact too is that there are quite a few Crust Punk (or Metal Punk) bands that are Warghammer themed (or had themes) as well such as: Skaven, Warhammer, and Destroy

[@GreatgoatonFire]

I feel like Snip and Wib need to get a new sofa. Their current one is spooked by a pokeman haunt.

[@blackaua]

"Fashy looking birds".

[@harbl99]

Rich Rags sound a lot like early Wildhearts. This is pleasing to me.

[@Gorbz]

A rare showing of Brother Flappymouth! And yes I quite agree, GW did do all sorts of stuff in the early days, like Dark Future, a game which I can only assume a member of the board saw in someone's garage recently, and decided it would be amusing to license the IP out to a game dev.

[@ultramarinescaptain3840]

Honestly I love it. Lyrics are quite fun, and catchy. So yeah, 8/10 would listen.

[@vthesnail]

10:17 Bulgaria, a country with no GW store in sight, yet apparently also the last place they make shirts with obscure 40k artwork. How and why is my country?

[@Shabo0117]

40K references in music are fun, like the song 'Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000' which I refused to believe was a 40k reference for years

[@leothewhiteranger]

Gotta say, as a Enperor's Children fan I really loved that bit of Noise Marines

[@markgrehan3726]

Ah, Bolt Thrower happy times and Games Workshop you crazy crazy company, also Kevin make that call.

[@andersingram]

This was a super fun little bit of GW arcana

[@everydaymadnesseveryday]

I've got a few copies of the Sabbat flexi as I figured I would wear it out, awesome track and was over the moon when that issue of WD first arrived as it melded two of my favourite things together.

[@Midnight_Tomorrow]

When watching videos about warhammer you never expect to see a band from your hometown

[@Maxibon2007]

I’ve still got my copy of White Dwarf which proudly advertised D Rock … I even remember the Chaos Noise Marines 1st appeared at the same time (Porto viral marketing?!) “We’re so load you’ll wanna die!, Go forth and Amplify! Here come The Noise Marines!…”

[@marcinswiecicki6713]

I personally love Saxon. One of the best Metal Bands in general also one that aged like fine wine with their final album being a purity deal of quality.

[@ballbaig7689]

This takes me back. Listening to some of those tracks and playing 2nd ed.

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

10:05 - the Saxon eagle was also known as "Biff's Budgie"

[@AxelsAndGears]

Thank you for aiding in my fall to the ruinous powers of metal.

[@goodlookingcorpse]

When metal gets sufficiently metal it circles around into extreme nerdiness.

[@dl66662]

Clicked to hear Bolt Thrower, was not disappointed

[@cams.2083]

BOLT THROWER! (TOP TEN FAVORITE BANDS)

[@kshadehyaena]

The real crime is that they never released the music from Final Liberation and especially Chaos Gate in good quality.

[@Greycatuk]

Adding my vote for more details on the potential Fighting Evil is Cool/GW crossover. Wib’s ‘Ode to a Fallen Orkboi’ and Snipe’s ‘SpaceWolf Growl’...? I’ve no idea what DickoSlu would do. Unsurprisingly.

[@westernfreedom5031]

I love all this old stuff! I was there for it all!

[@Joetime90]

He called me a Noise Marine as a was plucking my bass How'd he know

[@Eviscares]

[@nekrovulpes]

I wish this was still a thing. I feel like I would be a legit professional musician if I could just make death metal about Space Marines.

[@gadzilla6664]

Fuck yeah! Seeing the ad for realm of chaos in white dwarf was what made me check out Bolt Thrower. Also love the minis on the shelf in background. Have the leviathan and knight ever fought? Who won?

[@dochuckleberry4558]

True music if I've ever heard it.

[@davidjarkeld2333]

Still have the Sabbat Flexi, and the original Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos :)

[@squidcultist0022]

"grimdark polka" now this I need to hear

[@obnoxiouspriest]

Top shelf effort as usual. So different and interesting! I once came across an album in the earliest part of this decade that was somehow connected to Dan Abnett's Sabbat Worlds. I'm really fuzzy on the details at the moment. It was kinda strange. Ring any bells? I'd love to know more about it.

[@declangallagher1448]

THIS LACK OF SILENCE PLEASES SLANNESH!

[@Slev00]

I remember those days. Have a seen Sabbat, Saxon, and Wraith live! Still have a GW art RoC CD!

[@thomassaxon8254]

Great video about an obscure part of the hobby. Before my time but I still remember some of these being played by older players at the original club I went to. Overall I'm kind of glad that it's not been kept up. But it would be interesting to see what they'd sign now considering how lawyery they are on their IP.

[@neilduh]

Absolutely love Bolt Thrower.

[@Hallibut]

Really love this video. Such a great piece of GW history to explore. Big fan of Saxon too, they put on a great show! But I had no idea that Theu had an album out with Warhammer Records and now I really want thay T Shirt!

[@farithredloss8661]

The saxons would be a cool name for a SM chapter

[@alanwalters3638]

You should have mentioned Evertale's Great Brother War album. Not an official Warhammer record, but it does mention a lot of 40k lore.

[@TheCoates1980]

I saw Wraith at Bloodstock festival in 2013. And they still rock

[@cptmachine]

Given your choice of background music as being ancient computer game music. Would it be worth looking into GWs dip into micro computing. I’ve heard their early game Chaos is pretty good.

[@maxbrandt6]

Also, Batfish sounds like a perfect Chaos Marine warband!

[@dambrooks7578]

Thank for making me feel older than my son asking me "Daddy when you was young, you know in the old days... flexidiscs were a staple of my youth 😒

[@crystalpapers6590]

been blasting bolt thrower for decades

[@lonecolamarine]

The hit singles by Fighting evil is cool: Ere’ we go and Brutal Kunnin’

[@chrishughes1376]

I managed to meet Chi from D-Rok a few years ago at a Scifi weekender convention that was sharing the site with a prog rock event! Sound guy!