Bolt Thrower and RPGs

Bolt Thrower used to play Warhammer 40K.

http://www.boltthrower.com/interviews/bazCoS95.php

Chambers of Sorrow: ...and some of the other songs are based on that too, "Plague Bearer," "World Eater," all that stuff...

Barry: Oh yeah. A lot of these things were already wrote you see, and we did a Peel Session, and this is what this chap heard, who actually was the managing director, he heard all this and he said 'fucking hell, this band are into our sort of stuff! We can use this', you know, that's why they got in touch. So it wasn't like we wrote anything around their stuff, it was already done. Karl and Whale and Gavin were all avid players of Warhammer 40000, which is a concept that they have...

Chambers of Sorrow: Yeah, I have the book!

Barry: So they were very much into that already and they used to play these fancy-role-games. So it was a very good step for Bolt-Thrower because it was what three of the band wanted to do anyways.

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