Games Workshop released a Christmas single sung by an orca | Biden News

Last year Games Workshop celebrated Christmas with a limited edition miniature of Da Red Gobbo dressed as Santa Claus. (opens in a new tab), and followed this year with another promotional oddity. The Goff Rocker (opens in a new tab) is a leather-clad orc with a guitar and a grenade for a microphone who looks like a cross between Lemmy from Motörhead and Slash from Guns n’ Roses and has his own theme song to the tune of Jingle Bells called ‘Ere We Go. (opens in a new tab). (In reality it is credited to Jonathan Hartman, composer for Warhammer series like Angels of Death, Interrogator, and Hammer & Bolter.)

The Goff Rocker is a sweet reference to an obscure bit of Warhammer 40,000 from 1991, when the tabletop wargame supplement ‘Ere We Go: Orks in Warhammer 40,000 introduced the rules for the Goffik Rok Band. That trio of orcs carrying “Rock Guitars” were the Doof Warriors of their day, playing music to keep the army pumped on the march. Mechanically, they got orcs within 12 inches on the tabletop so excited they could fire twice a turn, albeit at -1 to hit thanks to their over-enthusiasm.

Back in the 1990s Games Workshop ran a record label called Warhammer Records, signing hard rock bands Wraith and D-Rok to record 40K themed music. Before that the company worked with metal band Bolt Thrower, giving them a license to use 40K art for the cover of their album Realm of Chaos, and gave away a “flex disc” of the song by thrash band Sabbat Blood for the Blood God with. issue of White Dwarf.