![]() What happens when a work of satire becomes larger and more successful than the subject matter? Brendon Small, multi-instrumental lead vocalist of cartoon band Dethklok, is faced with this conundrum thanks to Metalocalypse, his sinister televised study, spoof, and tribute to all things metal. The Adult Swim program features five oblivious death metal band mates whose unprecedented global success, religiously devoted following, and dark brand of cultural imperialism unwittingly play a pivotal role in fulfilling ancient Sumerian end-time prophecies. Each episode of the show climaxes with a violent musical summation of the animated heroes’ adventures. Frankie Beverly 14 BRANTERA 6165 (13.98) VARIOUS ARTISTS KINK Live. Titles: Crush the Industry Andromeda The Galaxy. ![]() And like a heavy metal Jonathan Swift, Small’s caricature of the real-life Scandinavian church burning ethos has fictional singer Nathan Explosion channeling Gorgoroth while screaming I challenge the Gods to stand their ground.ĭethalbum III, like the band’s two previous full-length records, is an anthology of original tracks featured on the cartoon reworked into a proper album. This album-matching folio contains all 12 songs from the record in authentic guitar TAB transcriptions. COLUMBIA /SONY MUSIC DETHKLOK Metalocalypse: Dethalbum II (Soundtrack) 15. But somehow, the sum total of its parts manages to come across as more than just a compilation. The first song of Dethklok’s set was the Metalocalypse theme song. Metalocalypse viewers and Cradle of Filth fans will treasure the morose humor found on tracks like I Ejaculate Fire and Impeach God, while hardened metal-head zealots will quiver in the thunder of double kick drums set to melodic speed riffs that would be the envy of Children of Bodom. Crush The IndustryĬut into them, for one last sip of the life. You can hear it in the keyboards, and it’s a major key song.The way these live Dethklok shows work, the band plays in front of a huge screen. It’s not heavy metal at all – it’s almost more inspired by Raspberry Beret-era Prince. So you get to see the difference between him and the other characters. And while the rest of the band is talking about money, he’s talking about his heart. Toki Wartooth is awaiting his death, and while he’s waiting, he thinks of his happiest moment to calm himself down, which is getting into the band Dethklok. “It’s a song of exciting empowerment that’s bookended by two horrible situations. It’s comical in nature, but there’s a brutal realism to it.” I Believe There’s a part where the woman cuts off a guy’s dick and says, ‘Bleed on the floor like a bitch’, and the man’s saying, ‘I’m bleeding like how you bleed – how can you still be alive?’ Which is asking how a woman can still live through every month. It’s about a group of women who become empowered and start castrating a bunch of men, and um… basically, read the chorus lyrics. “Most of the song is sung from a woman’s point of view, which is something I haven’t heard much of in heavy metal. And it’s got a fun, hooky chorus that you’re used to hearing on the Dethklok stuff.” Andromeda ![]() And it turns out it’s his ex-wife who’s taken a whole bunch of stuff from him, and it’s unresolved issues after unresolved issues. And even as I was improvising melodies and improvising lyrics, I realised it was about a superhero who’s on his way to go and save somebody, but the person he’s saving is someone who’s he’s got a really complicated relationship with, and he’s complaining the whole time that he’s on her way to save her. “It’s the first song where I really started understanding what the Galaktikon record would be. It’s quite destructive, just terrible parts of human nature – destroy, destroy, destroy.” On My Way That’s another theme that I picked up from Queen again, from The Prophet’s Song, which was about, ‘The Earth is ending, we’ve got to build an ark, we’ve got to save only part of humanity, and only part of the animals’, and so this one’s just about, ‘We’re not going to save anything everyone’s obliterated.’ And it’s really exciting for me, for that reason. “It’s about a big comet coming to Earth and destroying anything that’s ever lived.
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