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Andy Chalk

The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical is a deeply committed April Fool's joke from Games Workshop, and I don't care if it's a day late because it's just that good

Sister of Battle singing in The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical.

This is April 2, which means April Fool's is over and we can put the whole thing behind us until 2027. Except, well, this was just now brought to my attention, and I must insist you bear witness to it. Because this is The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical.

"Experience Warhammer like you've never heard it before," the YouTube page states, and boy, it is not kidding. Seeing fully decked-out space marines and battle sisters belt out timeless hits like Suffer Not the Alien To Live, My Collection, and There Is Only the Emperor—"the ballad of the Dark Millennium"—is a stirring sight by any measure.

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