Seen Your Video: Dethklok, “Mermaider”
Most fans of Adult Swim’s “Home Movies” series are probably still angry and bitter over creator Brendon Small’s decision to make his next project about a death metal band, but while the animated adventures of young Brendon, Jason, and Melissa regularly skewered the world of Hollywood, so does “Metalocalypse” poke fun at the music industry. The series focuses on Dethklok, a death metal band so popular that, indeed, by the second season of the series (:::coughing::: now out on DVD :::coughing:::), they rank as the seventh largest economy on the planet Earth; as a result, they answer to no authority but their own, lest the world’s financial solidity fall apart. If you can get past the music and the rampant violence, it’s actually an extremely funny and clever series.
Here’s the test: if you can get through the video for Dethklok’s song, “Mermaider,” and not feel repulsed in any way, then you should give “Metalocalypse” a chance…possibly starting with the Season 1 DVD set.
Be forewarned, however, that it’s very much for mature audiences only.
Posted in: Artists, Seen Your Video, Songs, Videos
Tags: Adult Swim, Brendon Small, Dethklok, Dethklok video, Home Movies, Mermaider, Metalocalypse, Metalocalypse Season 2
This is the greatest, video, ever. Nudity, check. Demons, check. Violence, check. Awesomeness, check.
When did Brendan release this thing? Why is it not more readily available?
DETHKLOK RULES!
DETHKLOK IS ONE OF THE MOST METAL BAND AROUND EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE CARTOONS THEY ARE STILL BROOOOGHTAL!
DETHKLOK RULES THAT MURDERTRAIN A COMIN I DONT WANT TO HAVE TO KILL YOU WITH MY BETTER METAL SNAKE AND YOU WILL BE FACE FISTED
Metalocalypse is going on it’s third season! Dethklok are currently on tour! They are NOT just cartoons! They are a virtual band! Use your Wiki people! Dethklok IS metal!!!!
I don’t suppose you happened to check the date on the posting, but it went up in late ’08, when the show was still in the midst of Season 2. And as far as Dethklok being a real band, they’re real in the sense that Mr. Small and some of his musical cohorts go on tour and play songs, but it’s not like they’re mirror images of their animated counterparts.
You lie! Dethklok is real! GROOOOOOOOG!