Best damned thing I've seen in a long time. Cant wait for the DVD's.
Various clips...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C4FqTfFma8&search=metalocalypse
TV - Adult Swim - Metalocalypse
I'm torn on this one. I mean, it's alright, but it's not blowing me away. This could be the Spinal Tap of death metal bands. I see wasted opportunity.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
New season starts tonight, and Soundgarden is back, have a new album, and got the maker of Metalocalypse to do the video. Dethklok is in it. This is mostly an episode of the show.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Finished season 4 after Adult Swim finally got around to rerunning them when I was paying attention. But since I have Xfinity, the shithead, asshole, cum smears of human beings with the shittiest cable and customer service on the planet, their fucking useless DVR decided to delete the Doomstar Requiem due to space needs about a year ago when it was literally the only thing on the DVR. I will be obtaining it through other means.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
This is some sort of Dethklok/Batman mashup. i don't even.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
TV - Adult Swim - Metalocalypse
Ok so back in the day when I was a big [AS] fan, and they had several shows that were groundbreaking for their time (looking at you Venture Brothers) they had a bad habit of allowing 18-24 months between seasons. This was before streaming and one couldn't easily rewatch a previous season in order to refresh memories for the next season. This causes a, "Wait, who was that guy, again?" questioning in the middle of the new episode, and that takes away from what the show is trying to do.
Anyway, Metalocalypse was like that. In the last couple seasons there was an ongoing storyline, and it was never focused on enough that it was coherent from episode to episode, much less season to season. Something about the band the show was based on was going to have a part to play in the end of the world. But what that was, wasn't really laid out until the last few episodes.
Mostly the show was how the public face of the band was the most brutal thing in the world, spawning a global cult-like following, and they were the world's 7th largest economy.... but backstage they were kind of retards.
But to be honest the showrunner, Brendan Smalls, wrote and played a lot of pretty good metal, in almost every episode of this silly show. It's interesting. He has toured a lot with a backing band, and the cartoon band on the big screen behind him playing along like it's them. I wish I had caught one of the shows.
Anyway, over 4* seasons (* 4 normal seasons, one full-on rock opera to set up the end, and another full-length movie that tied up the full story), I wacthed it beginning to end over the last month, or so. Seeing them all together made it much more enjoyable.
As far as I know, the only way to watch the show leglly is on the [AS] app, and it's really primitive. To the extent it doesn't remember what episode you left off on when you turn it off, and you need to reselect season/episode every time. Not difficult. There are thumbnails. It got confusing at the end, but I eventually figured out that when you finish the last official season, to to "Extras," and the opera, "Metalocalypse: Doomstar Requiem" is the next episode in order. And you MUST watch with subtitles, which I recommend you start with from the beginning, anyway. Some of the important growling conversation is important to the plot, and there's 0% chance of understanding Nathan's song lyrics without them. And they're usually funny. Tripply important in the opera, as all the singing is important to the plot.
But when you finish with that, go to Max and watch the "season 5" movvie, "Army of the Doomstar." It wraps things up in a satisfying way, and finally shows a little character growth that was almost entirely absent through the show.
Anyway here's how Dethklok brought peace to the Middle East. They got drunk with an arb prince and accidentally double-booked shows in both Israel, and Syria. Unless they could figure out how to play two shows at the same time, there was going to be nuclear war. They decide to make 5-mile-high avatars that could be seen all over the region. And of course, as always, they fuck it up because they're trying to sell ice cream merch and kill thousands which just makes their fans think they're more brutal and metal, but they bring peace to the Middle East with metal.
If there's any part of you that's still a teenage boy that loves metal, you want to watch this.
Anyway, Metalocalypse was like that. In the last couple seasons there was an ongoing storyline, and it was never focused on enough that it was coherent from episode to episode, much less season to season. Something about the band the show was based on was going to have a part to play in the end of the world. But what that was, wasn't really laid out until the last few episodes.
Mostly the show was how the public face of the band was the most brutal thing in the world, spawning a global cult-like following, and they were the world's 7th largest economy.... but backstage they were kind of retards.
But to be honest the showrunner, Brendan Smalls, wrote and played a lot of pretty good metal, in almost every episode of this silly show. It's interesting. He has toured a lot with a backing band, and the cartoon band on the big screen behind him playing along like it's them. I wish I had caught one of the shows.
Anyway, over 4* seasons (* 4 normal seasons, one full-on rock opera to set up the end, and another full-length movie that tied up the full story), I wacthed it beginning to end over the last month, or so. Seeing them all together made it much more enjoyable.
As far as I know, the only way to watch the show leglly is on the [AS] app, and it's really primitive. To the extent it doesn't remember what episode you left off on when you turn it off, and you need to reselect season/episode every time. Not difficult. There are thumbnails. It got confusing at the end, but I eventually figured out that when you finish the last official season, to to "Extras," and the opera, "Metalocalypse: Doomstar Requiem" is the next episode in order. And you MUST watch with subtitles, which I recommend you start with from the beginning, anyway. Some of the important growling conversation is important to the plot, and there's 0% chance of understanding Nathan's song lyrics without them. And they're usually funny. Tripply important in the opera, as all the singing is important to the plot.
But when you finish with that, go to Max and watch the "season 5" movvie, "Army of the Doomstar." It wraps things up in a satisfying way, and finally shows a little character growth that was almost entirely absent through the show.
Anyway here's how Dethklok brought peace to the Middle East. They got drunk with an arb prince and accidentally double-booked shows in both Israel, and Syria. Unless they could figure out how to play two shows at the same time, there was going to be nuclear war. They decide to make 5-mile-high avatars that could be seen all over the region. And of course, as always, they fuck it up because they're trying to sell ice cream merch and kill thousands which just makes their fans think they're more brutal and metal, but they bring peace to the Middle East with metal.
If there's any part of you that's still a teenage boy that loves metal, you want to watch this.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."