Sabbat (UK) 'Blood For The Blood God' flexi-disc + White Dwarf magazine

So, a little background info: White Dwarf is the magazine put out by Games Workshop to accompany their various tabletop gaming products like Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000, and other games played with a surfeit of plastic and metal models that are a monstrous drain on bank account, free time, and self-respect alike.

Games Workshop had a long-standing association with metal: Bolt Thrower was the most famous crossover, with "Realms of Chaos" featuring artwork by the company. There was also a fledgling record label (Warhammer Records), which signed bands like D-Rok (who never gained much attention). The company’s first foray into this realm was actually with this 7" flexi, "Blood for the Blood God". Sabbat had not yet released an album by this point but they were a logical choice for White Dwarf because they hailed from the same city as Games Workshop (Nottingham), vocalist Martin Walkyier wrote ambitious conceptual lyrics, and he and bassist Fraser Craske were both wargamers in their school days

Anyway, this is Sabbat's salute to classic fantasy gaming, the battle cry of the greatest of the malevolent Chaos Gods. This is very obviously the work of a fairly raw band, a year before debut album "History of A Time To Come" would be released; Martin Walkyier's vocal patterns are a bit jerky in places (as opposed to the measured rapid-fire delivery of later material) and the guitar transitions are hectic and rushed. But the chaotic death march riffage is there, and Mr. Walkyier is as menacing and savage as ever, with some truly fiendish shrieks.

This is the original magazine and disc I bought back in 1987 and the very tune that got me hooked on Sabbat! A piece of my metal history (of a time to come) if nothing else...