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During the Heresy Angron would team up in the [[Shadow Crusade]] with [[Lorgar]] and his [[Word Bearers]] to strike at [[Ultramar]] in conjunction with the traitor offensive at the [[Battle of Calth]]. Angron, seeing Lorgar as a weakling, refused to cooperate with him and frequently wasted time sacking and butchering strategically worthless targets. The tensions between the two Primarch's boiled over to a near battle, which was only interrupted by a [[Dark Eldar]] attempt to assassinate Angron himself. After the two Primarch's worked together against the Dark Eldar, they put their feud aside.{{Fn|8}}
However, Lorgar, recognizing Angron's instability and hidden sorrow over his forced departure from Nuceria, recommended that Angron return to his adopted homeworld to find a sense of closure as well as possibly overcome the Butcher's Nails, which were slowly killing him. When the two Primarchs arrived, however, they discovered that the slave-lords of Nuceria had massacred Angron's comrades and told the population that he had fled during their last stand. Infuriated, Angron ordered that the World Eaters and Word Bearers purge Nuceria of its population.{{Fn|11}} During the battle against Imperial forces, Angron saved Lorgar by stopping a [[Warhound Titan]]s foot with his bare hands before it could stomp on his brother.{{Fn|11}} Later the [[Ultramarines]] led by [[Guilliman]] arrived, determined to exact vengeance on the traitors for the [[Battle of Calth]]. Angron went on to duel Guilliman himself during the battle, defeating the Primarch in a furious rage. But while Guilliman managed to escape thanks to an intervention by nearby Ultramarines, this was precisely what Lorgar had wanted and the Word Bearers Primarch began a [[Khornate]] ritual. Using Angron's rage as a conduit, Lorgar channeled the power of Khorne and surged the Red Angel with the powers of Chaos. Angron was transformed into a hulking, even more bloodthirsty, avatar of violence and rage that had overcome the debilitating effects of the Butcher's Nails. For his new form, he was given a massive [[Black Blade|Black Runesword]] forged by the [[Dark Mechanicum]]. The first words that the newly ascendant Angron spoke where were of his desire for Kharn to massacre slaves in the lower decks of the ''[[Conqueror (Ship)|Conqueror]]'' and build him a skull throne.{{Fn|11}}
[[Image:AngronBlackBlade.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Angron during the [[Siege of Terra]]{{Fn|26b}}]]
Angron and his World Eaters went on to mindlessly rampage throughout the Galaxy, ignoring [[Horus]]' calls to muster at [[Ullanor]] in preparation for the drive on [[Terra]]. [[Perturabo]] himself was eventually sent with orders to bring Angron to Ullanor at all costs. Upon the world of [[Deluge]], the [[Iron Warriors]] arrived to find the population butchered and stacked into mountains of corpses. After withstanding an assault by crazed World Eaters and Khornate [[Daemon]]s, the sky opened up and Angron himself entered the carnage. Perturabo and Angron engaged in a brutal battle, with the Daemon having the clear edge in power and speed. However despite taking many wounds Perturabo endured and goaded Angron, declaring that he was born a slave and now was a slave to Darkness for all eternity. By using the Iron Warriors, [[Iron Circle]], and Volk to out-maneuver and bombard the World Eaters, Angron was bested as an Ultramarines fleet appeared in orbit over Deluge. Angron laughed and declared that they were all now going to die, but Perturabo reminded the Daemon Primarch that he had [[Nuceria|seen his warriors butchered while he had done nothing]] once before. This moved Angron enough to act, and after creating a [[Warp Storm]] the Iron Warriors and World Eaters fleets were able to escape the Ultramarines and move to [[Ullanor]], where they accompanied Horus for the muster.{{Fn|21}} Angron subsequently appeared in the climax of the [[Solar War]]. As a massive [[Warp Rift]] opened up over [[Luna]] which allowed the primary traitor strikeforce to assail Terra itself, Angron was seen perched aboard one of the battlements of the ''Conqueror''.{{Fn|24}}
