It's the most wonderful time of the year: when the UK gifts us bizarre Christmas novelty singles.
is a leather-clad ork 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 calledThe Goff Rocker is a cute reference to an obscure bit of Warhammer 40,000 from 1991, when the tabletop wargame's supplement 'Ere We Go: Orks in Warhammer 40,000 presented the rules for the Goffik Rok Band.
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. Prior to that the company worked with metal band Bolt Thrower, granting them a license to use 40K artwork for the cover of their album Realm of Chaos, and gave away a"flexi-disc" of thrash band Sabbat's song Blood for the Blood God with an issue of White Dwarf.
I don't imagine one Christmas novelty song marks a return to the world of rock 'n' roll for Games Workshop, but I sure wouldn't mind if it did. There's a mockfor Goff Rocker's"Festive Tour M41" with special guest Sloppity Bilepiper, a reference to a daemonic Herald of Nurgle playing a grotesquely organic set of bagpipes who has appeared as a
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