Orc Fight Rumble Extravaganza

**Orc Fight Rumble Extravaganza** (DWT 047) is a single released by TCos on the 15th of October 2023 from their studio album The Off White Album.

## Background

### Composition

The song is based upon the incredibly popular fantasy novel series 'The Earl of the Medallions' by esteemed writer Jolkein Rolkein Rolkein Tolkein which sees the Fellowship of Skaro undertake a perilous journey across the Inbetween Land to destroy the Medallion of Force and reclaim their ancestral home of the Crowded Hill. The Fellowship being made up of King Sparrowgorn, fair Lady Debwen, Dr. Gamer the Purple, elven King Avonduil and small person Danbo Tardins, they encounter many difficulties on their quest including evil sorcerer Melrin and the Enderdragon but are successful at the end of their quest. For several years it has been rumoured that this famous novel series was in fact based upon the antics of Britain's Biggest Band TCoS, with Daleks Jones (a famous fan of the Earl of the Medallions) repeatedly speculating this during her weekly segment dedicated to the franchise.

The song is the final part of a trilogy on The Off White Album, parts one and two being 'Merlin vs TsinTtan' and 'The Radical Super Magic Fantasy Goblin', that are based on the franchise and tell the story in song form to go alongside the various books, films and radio plays. Orc Fight Rumble focuses on the end of the story when the Fellowship come together to cast the Medallion of Force into the ice lake within the Glacier of Ruination and fight off the assembled hordes of ne'er-do-wells assembled by dark lord Melrin at the base of the Crowded Hill.

### Recording and release

Orc Fight Rumble was the last of three singles from The Off White Album, all of which were delayed significantly, being originally recorded in July 2022 but not seeing release as singles until 2023. Orc Rumble Fight was originally planned to be released second, after The Greatest Bulkman (Everybody Bulks) however the band encountered numerous problems when they attempted to publish the song, leading the planned third single Do Not Eat the Vinyl to be released ahead of it. The first issue was the resistance of author Jolkein Rolkein Rolkein Tolkein to allow a song based upon his work, with the DWT Records legal baboons spending months attempting to persuade, threaten, and bribe him to allow the song to go ahead. After finally gaining his permission with the promise of 85% royalties and a lifetime supply of custard creams the song was delayed once more by a leak in the kitchen of Danoftardis' hermitage which derailed his negotiations with renowned 17th century baroque painter Danthony van Tardis to use his lost masterpiece 'The Fellowship of Skaro' as the cover art for the single. To make up for the delays the band were forced to offer van Tardis 27 different paintings of Henrietta Maria to placate his artistic fury at such disruption. With that deal secured the song was finally free to be released 1 year and 4 months after the release of the album.

Upon release Daleks Jones played it on a loop for her entire show on Clom FM stating that "This is a dream come true, my two favourite things in life, The Earl of the Medallions and TCoS, joining together to make the best song I've ever heard!" and promising to play it once during every future Earl of the Medallions segment of her shows. This brought the song to the attention of fellow Medallions fans whom until this point had ignored TCoS, bringing in millions of new fans to TCoS' music. Inevitably the song went straight to number 1 on the Clom Music Chart with sales so big owner of DWT Records Mr. Davrid Goodoson Esq was reportedly brought to tears by how much money he was loosing to Jolkein in royalties.

## Artwork

The artwork for this release was made by Danoftardis and was inspired by the posters for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films. It took 5 months to complete and featured a new more artistic shading style which focused heavily on light and shadow and was described by Deborah J as "very baroque". It is noteworthy as the first example of a TCoS art where the band member's eyes feature pupils rather than just the coloured iris.

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