Anyone know why GW seem to have an obsession with Death Metal?

It's not Death Metal.

It's pretty much universally Dragonforce - which is as Death metal as my aunt alice. Proper death metal would scare parents from the stores and discourage them from dropping off GWs little meal tickets.

To keep up the GRIM DARK . And nothing immature about grown up playing with toys if there is music about death and satan in the back ground.

Huh. I thought they were contractually obligated to play the LotR soundtrack because that's all I ever seem to hear.

That's my experience as well. LOTR soundtrack on repeat............ad nauseum.

Haha i go to newcastle gw to

I wonder if different countries have different policies, I'm an Aussie like the OP and there's a lot of death metal in stores here.

I always figured it's because GW stores are run by nerds, and nerds love metal.

Metal is the primordial soup that GW emerged from in the 80's, where their rules are still firmly rooted.

It's not to my taste but better than the MOR music that plays in most shops.

Yesterday Games Workshop, Cribbs Causeway, Bristol was playing the theme tune to Dad's Army - classic completely representative of GW's marketing and sales policy.

I wonder if different countries have different policies, I'm an Aussie like the OP and there's a lot of death metal in stores here.

Havent been in the Dublin store in a while but my overwhelming memory is of metal of some sort.
Woe betide you if you entered with some trance on your Ipod let alone humming along to Britney Spears.

Do people remember the GW band Bolt Thrower?

Who?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_Thrower


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notprop wrote:Metal is the primordial soup that GW emerged from in the 80's, where their rules are still firmly rooted.

It's not to my taste but better than the MOR music that plays in most shops.

'Rooted' has an entirely different connotation to many Ozzers.

'To Root' is to engage in Sexual gymnastics with another person. To say that GWs rules are rooted is to state the bleedingly obvious.

Same here cobba.

Kilkrazy wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_Thrower


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I never had that...but I do still have the flexi-disk that came with WD somewhere.


I think they play the loud stuff at weekends for the kids, when I've been in mid week they are either silent or sometimes playing classical music. And it's no surprise, who wants to work in an environment playing music loudly all the time?

I still have that white dwarf as well in the loft (I want to say WD95?).

They even printed the lyrics in the magazine. All too much for my 12 year old ears!

Kilkrazy wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_Thrower


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i dont Remember them per say but i like them i found them on the wikipedia 40k page

btw i'm not sure if they were a gw band , gw let them do an album but nothing else , but i migh tbe wrong

'claw

UK Stores have a selection of discs to play.

Sadly, they are created in such a way that you can't skip the tripe. Nor can you take the discs home to burn the into a more pleasing order.

Bah.

Bolt Thrower weren't actually signed to GW, they just did an album that was an homage to W40K. They had the Rogue Trader cover on the front of the album. D-Rok were signed to GW, and released Oblivion, which I actually quite likes. Oblivion and Red Planet Blues were my fave songs. I think they had the Space Marine box cover on the front of their album.


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Lol, I just looked this lot up on Wikipedia and found that the two songs I just named had Brian May playing on them.

I think they sometimes play halo/other VGM in one of the stores I've been to

I dont mind too much as long as it isnt too loud

I have that bolt thrower album.

As far as I'm aware, in the UK all the GWs are periodically sent new CDs with a variety of tracks on it, the last CD I heard had some Sum41, Killers, Paramore and a variety of other 'child-friendly' rock music and is to be fair quite a naff selection of music.

I switch off to the music to be honest. If im painting i tend to have earphones on and my MP3 player on.

We get LOTR soundtracks, soundtracks from Mark of Chaos and Dawn of War II, and, when business is lower, more metal when nothing much is going on and we want to listen to some nice music

Leigen_Zero wrote:I have that bolt thrower album.

As far as I'm aware, in the UK all the GWs are periodically sent new CDs with a variety of tracks on it, the last CD I heard had some Sum41, Killers, Paramore and a variety of other 'child-friendly' rock music and is to be fair quite a naff selection of music.

That's not exclusive to GW stores or the UK, in general.

Shops here in the US(from hobby shops to grocery stores/pharmacies and even fast food joints) tend to use the most generic radio stations they can. After all, why lose a potential customer just because they were turned off by the music they heard as they walked in?

Fifty wrote:
Lol, I just looked this lot up on Wikipedia and found that the two songs I just named had Brian May playing on them.

Not surprising. Brian May used to play 40kays, and so did his boys (sons - not the other boys in his band(s)).

Trust me no gamesworkshop has ever played death metal or anything heavier then linkin park.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNxnXnBZ4cw

i think the link shows why.....now silly music noobs stop mixing up anything heavier then linkin park with death metal

sebster wrote:I wonder if different countries have different policies, I'm an Aussie like the OP and there's a lot of death metal in stores here.

I always figured it's because GW stores are run by nerds, and nerds love metal.

I usually find it to be Vike Metal...

Kilkrazy wrote:Do people remember the GW band Bolt Thrower?

YES! I sitll paint to them...

Never been to a official GW, but my FLGS always plays a Serious Satellite Radio station that only plays the Electric Light Orchestra.
It is funny because shortly before I started going to this store I started to like ELO a lot, and I was perplexed when I heard Fire On High and Sweet Talking Woman on it, since they usually only play some of the crappy ELO songs on the radio every once and a while.

For me, the GW at Mountain Village always played LOTR music. The one in Brea plays no music, IIRC.

My FLGS just plays the radio though, so, meh.

As long as it isn't disturbing the game, I'm good. Metal, Rock, hell, play bieber (well, maybe not) and as long as I can still play I really don't care.

I love my metal loud but I also find it hard to do my math hammer when my ear drums are taking a kickin'.

Southern rock or classical music works well when i'm gaming.

I can't speak for anywhere else in the world other than the UK, but as a GW employee I can definately confirm that GW doesn't play Death Metal, or any other kind of angry loud music which would inevitably put off customers.

As we have to actually have conversations with customers, having music on really loud with loads of drums and heavy guitars just wouldn't work, it tends to me more poppy rock music and stuff with a tune which you find yourself singing along to.

We do get a new CD every couple of months with a mix of current chart tracks, minus anything too cheesy and too slow. CD we had on today had things like Franz Ferdinand, Killers and Arctic Monkeys. The newer CD's are even having more house type bits on them too which is pretty cool. Something with a good tune and good beat is perfectly acceptable, and generally keeps the mood in the store upbeat.

Of course when we shut the doors at closing time, we put on something of our own choice and crank up the volume. Can't beat cleaning up to Take That!

Gutsnagga wrote:Anyone know why GW seem to have an obsession with Death Metal?

What.Ingods.name.areyou.talkingabout.

None of the Gw's I've ever been in play anything of the sort. They usually just play generic 'battle-music' or LoTR music....No metal...Or guitar in general.

The Decapitator wrote:Can't beat cleaning up to Take That!

Tempted to sig quote that out of context .

Bonegrinder wrote:

The Decapitator wrote:Can't beat cleaning up to Take That!

Tempted to sig quote that out of context .

Lol go for it buddy, I've got nothing to hide!

The poster that said that it was different music per different store got it right. ( At least for the ones in the U.S.A.)

I hear the soundtracks from Conan, Alien,Starshiptroopers, LOTR'etc. ( Basicly scifi soundtracks) in some stores, Others had a healthy mix of Metallica, Iron Maden, etc., and still others had some off the wall fatasy music, Led Zep, etc.

Just depends on the local crowds, I think.

If you don't like it, you can always bring your own stuff, I don't think that they would mind it if it wasn't too off the wall.
Cannible corpse, or Infanticide might be a little too extreme, but I wouldn't think something Like Zombie Ghost Train, Mad Sin, or The Misfits would be too out of the realm of possibility...

Ah Warhammer Records!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Rok_%28band%29

Kilkrazy wrote:Do people remember the GW band Bolt Thrower?

Still listen to them even now, a good solid death metal outfit.
Good live too.

I dunno about anywhere else in the world but certainly in the UK you are not allowed to play any other CD's other than the GW ones sent to the store whilst the store is open.

Is it not a case of liscencing as well?

I.e. they have purchased liscenced music products for public broadcast and while a minor infingement playing privately owned CDs would consitute an offence?

Its true of films and the like that you can not shown them in a pub for example with out licencing/permission.

my life. im going to a gw for a painting contest all day today. maby ill be able to play all the lotr songs on the tuba before the end of the night>:O

I got all 3 Bolt Thrower Cassettes 1 for WH40k, 1 for WHFB and their first album....cant remember the name but there ok....I like Metallica better

I remember when I was GW Dublin and they were just playing Muse! F$*k yeah

bjackson14 wrote: my life. im going to a gw for a painting contest all day today. maby ill be able to play all the lotr songs on the tuba before the end of the night>:O

You sir are king of the nerds, I bow to thee.

chromedog wrote:

Fifty wrote:
Lol, I just looked this lot up on Wikipedia and found that the two songs I just named had Brian May playing on them.

Not surprising. Brian May used to play 40kays, and so did his boys (sons - not the other boys in his band(s)).

Brian May had a house in Chiswick, down the road from the original Games Workshop in Dalling Road. He used to play historicals, and sometimes came into the shop in Hammersmith where I worked, to buy 15mm Minifigs. Which was around the corner form the Dalling Road GW.

I always hear the mines of moria part of the soundtrack when I go into the GW store in my area

Bookwrack wrote:Huh. I thought they were contractually obligated to play the LotR soundtrack because that's all I ever seem to hear.

Warhammer World is a LOTR soundtrack overdose!

Kilkrazy wrote:Do people remember the GW band Bolt Thrower?

Yup, and Sabbat. I remember the D-Rok album when it came out too. Still got it lurking around somewhere.

And umm... no. Thankfully it doesn't exactly get much play time round here.



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Kilkrazy wrote:

Brian May had a house in Chiswick, down the road from the original Games Workshop in Dalling Road. He used to play historicals, and sometimes came into the shop in Hammersmith where I worked, to buy 15mm Minifigs. Which was around the corner form the Dalling Road GW.

Sounds about right. That was how he met Sigh (one of the dudes fom D-rok) iirc.

(Wiki-check... yarp)

The local Redshirts have fairly free reign to plug in their iPods, which I think is pretty cool. One guy likes Flyleaf and metal, and one of the other staffers had some Bob Marley on the other day.

I vaguely remember being in GW a few weeks ago and there being anything from Avril Lavigne, Queen and some other really really random music on. Kept hearing things I vaguely recognised but havent listened to in a LONG time.

blackclaw1 wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_Thrower


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i dont Remember them per say but i like them i found them on the wikipedia 40k page

btw i'm not sure if they were a gw band , gw let them do an album but nothing else , but i migh tbe wrong

'claw

They were able to have a license for this Album... but they are a band in its own, they still making new albums

in the case of my own LGS was... or an insane loop of Dropkick Murphys songs, or a DJ Disco radio (really awful). In the Official GW as much as i remember, BSO or Power metal, but the softest ones...

My GW loves punk. They've been playing the same Good Charlotte and Sum41 albums for 10 years now.

The Decapitator wrote:I can't speak for anywhere else in the world other than the UK, but as a GW employee I can definately confirm that GW doesn't play Death Metal, or any other kind of angry loud music which would inevitably put off customers.

As we have to actually have conversations with customers, having music on really loud with loads of drums and heavy guitars just wouldn't work, it tends to me more poppy rock music and stuff with a tune which you find yourself singing along to.

We do get a new CD every couple of months with a mix of current chart tracks, minus anything too cheesy and too slow. CD we had on today had things like Franz Ferdinand, Killers and Arctic Monkeys. The newer CD's are even having more house type bits on them too which is pretty cool. Something with a good tune and good beat is perfectly acceptable, and generally keeps the mood in the store upbeat.

Of course when we shut the doors at closing time, we put on something of our own choice and crank up the volume. Can't beat cleaning up to Take That!

Just making clear to everyone, I live in Australia. All GW's here only play strange loud blairy music that noone can understand the words to.

I remember hearing Powerman 5000 years ago when I first started. Thats the closest to "death metal" I've heard there. Several occasions I've heard no music.
Interesting enough, everyone at my local GW will insist that Dragonforce is the ultimate band of all time.

Recently, I've been hearing stuff that sounds like LotR, or generic opra/classical stuff which could easily fit both fantasy and sci-fi settings;.

My local store... and every GW store I've been into... just seems to play endless loops of Metallica and Linkin Park.

If you sell war games and play war games some metal/rock isn't going to go astray. I feel it is almost mandatory in fact. When ever i paint in store or at home i enjoy some nice relaxing metal. i am after all painting little men that are supposed to kill millions an commit acts of genocide regularly.

I don't work in a GW store however I do work in a LGS and we have wargames (GW, Wara/hordes), cards, euro boards, and RPGS. We also are with in a 4 block radius of 5 churches and 10 blocks of 9. So often I have had to change the music that the owner puts in (old metal, Rob Zombie, and some dreadful stuff I think they play while forcing mud into the speakers), due to the knowledge that many people here are not adjusted to what a store like ours sells or does. The normal wierd description of our "type" of store is "dark" (read as EVIL), now understanding thier wierd context with that and the overall undereducation they must have to think we are demon worshiping heathens and sinners just because we frequent a game store. We apparently are out to destroy thier moral fiber and corrupt thier children through the power of reading and non linear thinking, giving them confident math skills by adding all those card numbers up, as well as increasing thier exposure to social actives with people of different ages. So I do tend to put alot of softer stuff on, that being said, I still play Slaanesh, so I put on the legend Barry White, and often Marvin Gaye, in the vain hopes that they will stay long enough to open thier wallet.

Regards,
Carl

The LGS we went to this weekend was playing pop/top 40 radio. That was the first time I'd visited that particular store, so I am not certain that is what they always play, but I do remember hearing Taylor Swift and Train while in there. Personally I adore that type of music, so I was secretly thinking "Yay!"

The local GW plays soundtracks from a variety of movies. LotR(Obviously), Pirates of the Caribbean, Braveheart, etc. and some other things(I don't really follow music). I do recall the blackshirt saying something about them being obligated to play that certain list of soundtracks.

Of course, starting this week, we get to listen to Christmas songs over and over and over again......

Of course, starting this week, we get to listen to Christmas songs over and over and over again......
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ugh you've brought back my retail days! Curse you! There are at least 6 different versions of Winter Wonderland that play on the mall muzak!

loranafaeriequeen wrote:Of course, starting this week, we get to listen to Christmas songs over and over and over again......
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ugh you've brought back my retail days! Curse you! There are at least 6 different versions of Winter Wonderland that play on the mall muzak!

The horror! The horror!!!!

It's already been decided, in my store at least, NO XMAS SONGS! We'd all have bleeding ears by the end of the day and want to build an extra high WitchFate Tor to plummet from!

Although I may try and slip on Chris De Burgh - 'A Spaceman Came Travelling'.....

As I remember, my local GW plays some generic sounding epic classical music, the kind that you can listen to without hearing.

Hmm, it always seems to sound like LOTR when I go in there.

I can't believe the contrasts in musical tastes between Oz and the UK.

BAWTRM wrote:That's my experience as well. LOTR soundtrack on repeat............ad nauseum.

The Lord of the Rings sound track is actually quite awesome. I listen to it while playing Elder scrolls: Oblivion and such.

The Lord of the Rings soundtrack is truly epic, I regularly listen to my Return of the King cd when I play 40k (of, really, anything fantasy/sci-fi)....though mind you, I'm a rather big fan of Sir Tolkien's works, so take from that what you will.

Also, (slightly OT) speaking of GW and music, amusing story: I recently got the DoWII soundtrack off Steam (it's free), and its listed genre as "Pure Epic".

i still have the vinyl, "chaos space marine" theres some ascii stuff

Elector wrote:
Also, (slightly OT) speaking of GW and music, amusing story: I recently got the DoWII soundtrack off Steam (it's free), and its listed genre as "Pure Epic".

I've heard that in GW stores, inbetween other "epic" sounding things

jamessearle0 wrote:i still have the vinyl, "chaos space marine" theres some ascii stuff

Wow, that's a good sign if it has ASCII included.....just started learning how to translate binary to text (ASCII) in school myself.

@prime12357, it's not a bad soundtrack, I enjoy listening to it while working, not too distracting, but still some good ambient music.

Trasvi wrote:My GW loves punk. They've been playing the same Good Charlotte and Sum41 albums for 10 years now.

I thought you said they loved punk, though?

Even when I used to listen to that stuff back in the day I would never admit they were punk. I'm not a music snob by any means, I'm mostly just playing around, but people do get kind of irritated when you miscategorize music.

I'm kind of odd when it comes to music I guess. Like anyone there are genres I prefer more over others, but I don't religiously listen to any one thing. I'll listen to anything that appeals to me, whether it's on the top 40 or no one's ever heard of it, whether it's metal or classical or even rap (not so much a fan of the "bitches and money" crap that's popular, though). Admittedly the likes of death metal are probably too "hardcore" for me...I know you can say this about damn near anything, but it just all sounds the same. To me personally it just sounds like incomprehensible screaming and noise and I don't really get it at all. I have nothing at all against people who are into it, so long as you aren't a douchebag and start posting the crap that plagues every music video on You Tube (which you can see plain as day in the Carnifex video linked earlier...I kinda liked the song clip they played at the end, I'm more into the melodic stuff or music with an actual tune to it, and all these guys are all WTF THIS IS gak IT ISN'T BRUTAL AT ALL), acting like I'm inhuman filth for not listening to the same gak you do and going as far as declaring a personal crusade against variety (or in your opinion, "bad music", which to "hardcore" fans is anything that isn't in their ONE FAVORITE GENRE).

As for my LGS, most of the time I don't notice any music at all, but I've heard just about everything played in there when they actually have music on.

God I hate it.

Stupid music is always on loud enough that I can't think.

GW Mt Gravatt has some good music - Good night siagon has a tendancy to play every day or so.

their fething Deep purple.

I do music as a subject. I DON'T WANT TO HEAR SMOKE ON THE WATER EVERY WHERE.

The Amsterdam store played Lord of the Rings music and pop music. Ick.

I suggested to them that they should play Bolt Thrower, but the manager got upset at that suggestion, stating that it would scare away the kids.

My FLGS plays mostly indie rock that I have never heard of, nothing hard at all really. Most of it is pretty good though.

BrookM wrote:The Amsterdam store played Lord of the Rings music and pop music. Ick.

I suggested to them that they should play Bolt Thrower, but the manager got upset at that suggestion, stating that it would scare away the kids.

Wouldn't scare me away, that'd be awesome!
Sadly, it's a snowball's chance in hell...

Death Metal is what I call 'troll music', because it sounds like trolls screaming! So ironically that would actually be appropriate for GW stores (joke).

Grimstonefire wrote:Death Metal is what I call 'troll music', because it sounds like trolls screaming! So ironically that would actually be appropriate for GW stores (joke).

really? then just check Finntroll you'll be really pleased (a bit unnerving for gameplaying anyway...)

GW in NJ (usa)
Tends to have either LoTR soundtrack on repeat or...
The dreaded 13th christmas CD.

I refuse to step foot in GW during christmas season for the years of torment from working in retail. I last about 15-20 mins with christmas music, that's my max.

If only my FLGS's played death metal. That would make me soooo happy.

As for the Bolt Thrower album, can't say I'm a huge fan, but I definitely wouldn't mind if they played it at the shop.

The GW shop I work in in the UK doesn't play any Xmas music at all. The guv'nor reckons if he had to listen to constant Xmas songs he'd shoot himself with a multi-melta

My store is either the LOTR soundtrack, black library audiobooks, or whatever CD's the staff happened to buy recently, more often than not Hip-Hop or modern rock. Pretty good mix to be honest.

For us, it's either Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator or LOTR.

It also depends on the Manager or who's in Store. Last week they were playing 80's music...very uninspiring listening to ABC's Look of Love...

Michael Collins

I bring an MP3 player gaming just in case. Then again, I listen to jazz when I paint so no one wants to hear what I do anyway. Pirates of the Caribbean would be awesome. Get goose-bumps from that stuff. Also tricks people into listening to orchestral music.

last time i went into a GW store they were playing MC 900 ft Jesus - The City Sleeps, which is one of the coolest, most creative tracks to come out of the 90s.

After that, I was pretty impressed with the Victoria GW.

I always wondered why they never played the old art of perception collections. They where more techno sure but they where serious 40k songs (the Orks one was kinda dorky, but fun)
Those where the first 12" I ever owned, made my dad tear up a bit when I got those at the ripe young age of 14.

It also turned me onto a whole new sound in music, Codec & Flexor being one.

I've never even noticed the music in the GW I go to. Its not really loud enough..

Just be happy they ain't playing Bieber..

I was in my local GW the other day, and I honestly didn't hear any music.

What was weirder though was the extremely non-talkative manager. Didn't try to tell me anything and seemed to want to keep to himself. Very odd.

Your reputation precedes you.

I don't know what Dragonforce is, so searched it up on Youtube.

Dragonforce is definitely speed metal, and LIGHT speed metal at that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jgrCKhxE1s

I would probably get a hard on if I walked into a GW playing death metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0MfBG5-Uo

Our local GW guy makes his own mixes and bring them in. It rawks

Shaman wrote:I've never even noticed the music in the GW I go to. Its not really loud enough..

Just be happy they ain't playing Bieber..

Shaman, don't you need to change your Avatar now that DE have been updated? Or are you saturating early and assuming they won't get anything done before 2020 even if WH40k is on it's 8th edition by then?

Out of all the times i've been inside my local GW store, not once have I heard music playing.

I'm sure its whatever the store employees want to listen to. Always Movie Soundtracks at the ones near me.

Definately not in the UK, well it shouldn't be anyway as they are sent CD's which they are meant to play. Although I did discover that one of them happens to be the LOTR soundtrack when I put it on earlier lol.

Shaman wrote:
Just be happy they ain't playing Bieber..

If they played Beiber, the world would have ended several months ago.

i actually find that the music is not that bad acuttually but it can still get loud

I think the music played in Gw stores depends on the manager cuz we listen to the radio or LOTR music, mostly LOTR music though
he immeditly goes in the back when he hears justin bieber on the radio roflroflroflroflroflroflroflrofl