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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.