Metalocalypse

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Metalocalypse
Image:Dethklok2.jpg The characters of Metalocalypse in a promotional poster. From left to right: William Murderface, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, Nathan Explosion, Pickles the Drummer, and Toki Wartooth. </small>
Genre	Animated television series
Running time	11 minutes approx.
Creator(s)	Brendon Small Tommy Blacha
Starring	Brendon Small Mark Hamill Tommy Blacha Victor Brandt
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	Cartoon Network
Original run	August 6, 2006–present
No. of episodes	18
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Metalocalypse is a Flash animated television series on Adult Swim created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha. It has been described as "Spinal Tap meets Scooby-Doo meets Norway." The series was originally pitched as Deathclock, but the name could not be used due to an existing trademark. The show and the main characters' band were then renamed Dethklok. The show's title was then extended to Death Clock Metalocalypse, although the starring band still retained the name Dethklok. The crew finally shortened the title to Metalocalypse because the extended show title was too complicated.

The show's first season consists of twenty eleven-minute episodes, the first of which premiered on the Adult Swim Fix on August 4, 2006, and on Adult Swim proper the following Sunday. The Metalocalypse premiere was the #1 rated show in its timeslot among males aged 18-34, and earned the network's best premiere delivery and ratings to date in 2006. Among the top ad-supported basic cable programs of the week, Metalocalypse ranked #12 among men 18-34 and #6 among men 18-24. The series premiere ranked #30 for the week among adults 18-34.<ref>Turner Broadcasting ratings information</ref>

The series often has real-life musicians doing guest voices on the show. Among these are James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Jeff Loomis, Steve Smyth, and Warrel Dane of Nevermore, Arch Enemy guitarist Michael Amott, King Diamond, and Cannibal Corpse frontman George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher. Additionally, every episode often features several passing references to other metal bands in the form of names, places, or general behavior on the part of the characters.

Dethklok, the in-show band, also endorses several real-world music products, including Krank Amplification, Gibson guitars, EMG pickups, and Line 6 gear. On Dethklok's MySpace page, Nathan Explosion posted a blog entry announcing that the band is making a real album to be coming out soon.

According to Adult Swim, Metalocalypse has been renewed for second season consisting of twenty episodes to begin airing in late 2007.

1 Overview
2 Characters
3 Episodes
4 Songs
5 Voice actors
- 5.1 Cameos
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Overview

Metalocalypse follows the exploits of the part-American/part-Scandinavian metal band Dethklok. They enjoy a popularity level unheard of in reality. They are so popular that the fans will do anything their songs tell them, even if it could mean death. If Dethklok endorses a company, it instantly becomes the only source for the product it happens to sell, as every competitor is quickly driven out of business. People love Dethklok's concerts so much that they will sign "pain waivers" at the entrance, signing their lives away and releasing the band from legal liability in the extremely likely event of an audience member being killed or dismembered in some manner, often by one of the deadly contraptions the band has set up beforehand. The band's concerts (where the band usually performs in corpse paint) are notoriously violent, often resulting in harm to a good portion of the crowd. Even their attempts at charity result in many deaths. The songs the band plays are essentially parodies of real death metal and power metal, ranging from a thrashing coffee jingle, with tons of power metal-esque lead play, to a glass-shattering death metal tune, Mermaid-er, about mermaid murder.

The members of Dethklok are portrayed as generally sociopathic and inept in all things non-musical except for negotiating their own contracts. Despite the band's immense success and talent, all of the members have self-esteem issues which surface to varying degrees during the show. They're also ridiculously wealthy and thus can get away with just about anything, including murder. The band members, in a parody of the posturing of real-life metal bands, show an obsession with "brutality" and "metal-ness", often choosing to do something or not based on how "metal" they believe it to be.

The band's unnatural popularity has attracted the attention of an Illuminati-style group, known as the Tribunal. Each episode sees this group attempt to covertly thwart the band, as they may be the objects of an ancient Sumerian apocaplyptic prophecy. The Tribunal may have good reason to fear Dethklok, as the band's sheer brutality has caused several supernatural events, and the band members themselves have, on ocassion, displayed some demonic characteristics during performance.

[edit] Characters

Main article: Characters in Metalocalypse

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of Metalocalypse episodes

[edit] Songs

"Deththeme Demo" (never heard on show) (MP3 available on Brendon Small's personal website)
"Deththeme" (MP3 released on AdultSwim.com and on Dethklok's official MySpace)
"Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle" ("The Curse of Dethklok") (MP3 released on AdultSwim.com and on Dethklok's official MySpace)
"Sewn Back Together Wrong" ("The Curse of Dethklok") (never officially released)
"Thunderhorse" ("Dethwater") (deleted during the recording process by Nathan Explosion, along with sixteen complete albums deemed "not heavy enough") (MP3 released on AdultSwim.com and on the band's mySpace. The mySpace version is a better copy.) (Featured as a bonus song for the video game Guitar Hero II)
"Dethwater Practice" ("Dethwater") (never officially released)
"Mermaid-er" ("Dethwater") (never officially released)
"Underwater Friends" ("Dethwater") (solo performance by Toki; never officially released)
"Electric Eel Chair" ("Dethwater") (never officially released)
"Scaled And Gutted And Undercooked" ("Dethwater") (never officially released)
"Scuba Tank Filled With Farts" ("Dethwater") (never officially released)
"Birthday Dethday" ("Happy Dethday") (MP3 released on AdultSwim.com)
"Awaken Mustakrakish" ("Dethtroll") (MP3 released on AdultSwim.com and limited release on Dethklok's official MySpace)
"Death Metal Lullaby" ("Dethtroll") (acoustic lullaby used to put lake troll to sleep) (never officially released)
"Hatredy" ("Dethkomedy") (limited MP3 release on Dethklok's official MySpace, small clips used as intermissions)
"Bloodrocuted" ("Dethfam") (never officially released)
"Dethfam" ("Dethfam") (made by the Dethklok families) (limited MP3 release on Dethklok's official MySpace)
"Inner Child Tied and Beaten in my Trunk" ("Performance Klok") (limited MP3 release on Dethklok's official MySpace)
"Water Horsey Blues" (Sung by Pickles in his former band Snakes n' Barrels) ("Snakes n' Barrels") (never officially released)
"Snakes n' Barrels Reunion Album" (Recorded by Snakes n' Barrels after their minds were erased. Heard at the end of the episode) ("Snakes n' Barrels") (never officially released)
"Blood Puke" ("Mordland") (never officially released)
"Fan Song" ("Mordland") (limited MP3 release on Dethklok's official MySpace)
"Dethharmonic" ("Fat Kid at the Detharmonic") (featuring Emilie Autumn as the London Philharmonic Orchestra) (limited MP3 release on Dethklok's official MySpace)
"Crush My Battle Opponent's Balls" ("Skwisklok") (limited MP3 release on Dethklok's official MySpace)
"Briefcase Full of Guts" ("Murdering Outside the Box") (limited MP3 release on Dethklok's official MySpace)
"Go Forth and Die" ("Go Forth and Die") (limited MP3 release on Dethklok's official MySpace)
"Guts Punched, Balls Threw Up" ("Go Forth and Die") (never officially released)
"Murdertrain a Comin'" ("Bluesklok") (limited MP3 release on Dethklok's official MySpace)
"Planet Piss" (Solo performance by Murderface) ("Dethkids") (never officially released)
"Happy Metal World Rainbow" (Juliette Sarmansadandle, featuring Toki and Pickles) ("Dethkids") (never officially released)
"I'm Just a Rock 'n' Roll Clown" (Dr. Rockso) (rocksclusive music video banned from MTV) ("Dethclown") (never oficially released)

[edit] Voice actors

Brendon Small – Nathan Explosion, Pickles, Skwisgaar Skwigelf and various
Tommy Blacha – William Murderface and Toki Wartooth, Dr. Rockso, and various
Mark Hamill – Senator Stampingston, Jean-Pierre and various
Victor Brandt – General Krosier and various

[edit] Cameos

Laraine Newman ("The Curse of Dethklok") – "News Reporter", "Grandma", "GMILF", ("Dethfam") – "Rose Explosion (Nathan's Mom)", "Pickles' Mom", "Serveta Skwigelf (Skwisgaar's Mom)"
James Hetfield ("The Curse of Dethklok") – "Goat", ("Birthdayface" or "Happy Dethday") – "Sniper", ("Dethtroll") – "Mustakrakish", ("Dethkomedy") – "Lorkey" (the sailor)
Kirk Hammett ("The Curse of Dethklok") – "Two-Fingered Fan", ("Birthdayface" or "Happy Dethday") – "Queen of Denmark", ("Dethtroll") – "Barkeep"
Jeff Loomis ("Performance Klok") – "Murderface's Dad"
Michael Amott ("Snakes 'n' Barrels") – "Antonio Tony DiMarco Thunderbottom"
Steve Smyth ("Snakes 'n' Barrels") – "Snizzy Snazz Bullets"
Warrel Dane ("Snakes 'n' Barrels") – "Sammy Candynose Twindleskins"
Jon Schnepp ("Skwisklok") – "Video Director"
King Diamond ("Skwisklok") – "Ronald Von Monoldburg", ("Murdering Outside The Box") – "Employee 421", ("Go Forth and Die") - "Dimmu Burger Manager", ("Bluesklok") - "The Devil"
George Fisher ("Go Forth and Die") – "Dimmu Burger Customer", ("Bluesklok") – "Depressed Fool's Cap Hippie"; ("Dethkids") "Football Player"
Emilie Autumn ("Dethharmonic") – All violins (as "played" by the London Philharmonic Orchestra)