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2019/09/12 21:36:30
Subject: Best band that sings about Warhammer 40,000?
This list is terrible. The only good thing to come from GWs metal music connection is the cover of Horus Rising and the dude with the hair. It’s cringeworthy stuff!
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2019/09/13 14:51:16
Subject: Re:Best band that sings about Warhammer 40,000?
Just like the poll results suggest, Bolt Thrower all the way! Pretty much flawless discography with the 4th Crusade and Those Once Loyal as personal favorites.
Another band that comes to mind would be Anaal Nathrakh. On the album Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here there are titles like "Shatter The Empyrean", "Virus Bomb" or "Sanction Extremis" which are probably w40k related. Recommended only if you like abrasive black metal/grindcore...
2019/09/14 20:55:34
Subject: Re:Best band that sings about Warhammer 40,000?
Another band that comes to mind would be Anaal Nathrakh. On the album Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here there are titles like "Shatter The Empyrean", "Virus Bomb" or "Sanction Extremis" which are probably w40k related. Recommended only if you like abrasive black metal/grindcore...
They're sorta half-inspired (insofar as I remember - we've not talked about it in detail). Dave likes the general background. It doesn't really count as 'singing about', though. At the time of Hell Is Empty... Dave still almost only wrote lyrics for choruses, everything else is just screams.
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2019/11/14 14:42:45
Subject: Re:Best band that sings about Warhammer 40,000?
Funnily enough listening to a Steel Legion Tribute with Sabaton's Wehrmacht when I found this thread.
So many of their songs fit the themes if not all the specifics. Hell I'd be tempted to make some Winged Hussar themed Space Marines on bikes if I had the time.
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2020/01/17 04:31:14
Subject: Re:Best band that sings about Warhammer 40,000?
Forget all the raging screaming lunatics in your nu metal bands. GW have finally realised that no one sane actually listens to people screaming and is putting together some actual music to give a soundtrack to their worlds.
Knockagh wrote: Forget all the raging screaming lunatics in your nu metal bands. GW have finally realised that no one sane actually listens to people screaming and is putting together some actual music to give a soundtrack to their worlds.
First time I saw GWAR live (at their first show back in Richmond after the ban!), Balsac was soundchecking out of costume wearing an Armageddon Steel Legion shirt. My heart was immediately won over to the Jaws of Death.
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2022/11/07 07:45:59
Subject: Re:Best band that sings about Warhammer 40,000?
I've never heard of any of the others, but Bolt Thrower are awesome.
I first listened to them just a few years after getting into warhammer. It's a shame they had already released their final album just before that.
I generally go for metal that has some clean vocals in it, but quite a few of their songs are classics that never get old.
Aside from the aforementioned Those Once Loyal, Mercenary is also an outstanding cd, and any of the title tracks from Honour, Valour, Pride.
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2023/11/18 20:21:07
Subject: Best band that sings about Warhammer 40,000?
Get out of my way is a classic, and the emperor knows this.
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