CINCINNATI — Bolt Thrower fan Harold Rodriguez was disappointed in the reaction to his custom playlist by fellow members of his Warhammer 40K meetup, sources report.
“I don’t get it, dude,” Rodriguez mentioned while dejectedly mustering his army of Space Marines. “I joined this group just assuming that this was also a Bolt Thrower meetup by default, but they are clearly not receptive at all to this sick-ass playlist I put together from their first three albums. I was hoping that iconic riff from the beginning of ‘What Dwells Within’ would get their heads banging, but Scott actually got up and turned down the volume on my Apple HomePod. Does this mean I actually have to focus on the game now? It’s actually kind of boring, and not nearly as cool as Bolt Thrower makes it out to be.”
Fellow Warhammer 40K player Jerome Sager was not happy about the unrequested musical addition to the game.
“This is the third time this has happened this month,” Sager sighed. “I’m trying to get my Adeptus Custodes into unit coherency, and this dude is playing music that sounds like the literal apocalypse. I’m not huge into music, but if I want to listen to something while playing, Chevelle or Breaking Benjamin is about as heavy as I get. It’s gotten to the point where I consider walking out when I see some new guy with long-hair and a black shirt come in, because I know it’s coming. The last guy almost got us kicked out of this Panera Bread, and it looks like it might happen again. I can already see some customers giving us dirty looks.”
Sociologist Stephanie Tanaka weighed in on the situation.
“There is often a disconnect between fanbases of extreme metal and the sources of many of its themes,” Tanaka offered. “It’s not uncommon for a fan of black metal to assume that other members of their fantasy book groups listen to Gorgoroth, and I’ve conducted several case studies of people mistakenly playing technical death metal at science fiction conventions. I actually wrote my dissertation on the pervasiveness of Mortician in the playlists of horror expo DJs. Metalheads would benefit from being a bit more unassuming in their social activities.”
At press time, Rodriguez had left the meetup, and was bringing his new Carcass playlist to his MCAT study group.