The Dethalbum

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Product Description Premiering last year on Adult Swim, "Metalocalypse" centers around the exploits of the biggest, most metalist band in the world, Dethklok. As the band goes about their business, the evil Tribunal tries in vain to stop Dethklok from expanding their empire. Each episode features a new song from the band, and now the best of those tracks have been expanded, re-recorded, and put together with all new songs to make the album fans have been clamoring for. Prepare for an onslaught of bone-crunching Nordic riffs that'll force you to your knees. The deluxe edition contains a second disc with six tracks, a video for "Bloodrocuted" and additional material for fans. desertcart.com There's a fine line between being funny and being a joke. Thankfully, the debut album from Dethklok, the band at the core of Adult Swim's hit animated series Metalocalypse lands squarely in the former category. Performed by series co-creator Brendon Small (Tommy Blacha is Small's creative partner)--with a lot of help from metal drum legend Gene Hoglan (Death Angel, Strapping Young Lad)--songs such as "Birthday Dethday," "Face Fisted," and "Awaken" tap into the unapologetic musical brutality of death metal, while highlighting the often confusing ambiguity of the genre's lyrics. Progressive taxes ("Detharmonic"), the disappointment and seemingly endless cycle of higher education ("Go Forth and Die"), and the obligatory kiss-off to moist-palmed computer geeks who spew vitriol from the safety of Internet chat rooms ("Fansong"), provide the fodder for Small's hilarious, subtle, intelligent and highly quotable lyrics. Make no mistake: The Dethalbum isn't going to supplant your favorite At the Gates or Slayer recordings, but it will provide hours of amusement and joy--perhaps the very enemy of death metal itself, perhaps the very thing that makes Metalocalypse one of the funniest shows on cartoon TV these days and Dethklok the truest rock band since Spinal Tap. --Jedd Beaudoin Review: Sometimes the (Metal) Fans Make the Best Music - Metal....You cannot deny it! Such a simple statement not only is true, it works! And ever since the Led Zeppelin debates that began when they came out, metal bands have come out to define (not just redefine) exactly what metal is. As a metal fan, I can say honestly.....we haven't written the first word because the bands have too often made the music about themselves; often, as in the case of Linkin Park, to hide their shortcomings and inabilities. Heavy metal should always be about the pure mastery of the music, and the bands should be the Sadists in that S&M musical relationship. Even the most honest of metal, death metal, has a lost focus. Once again, leave it up to the metal fans to save Metal. With 'Metalocalypse', metal fans Tommy Blacha and Brendon Small reminded the world that metal, particularly the cartoon band Dethklok's brand of metal, ruled them. The show, a funny romp about the mythical Dethklok and the extremes they'll go just to sell something, demonstrated at times that the music, though short in clips and bursts, was hypnotically good. It demonstrated that fans of the genre could put together awesome headbangingly good music for the show at least. How about a whole album? The 'Dethalbum' is the result of pure fan passion. This isn't just a convenient CD with a running order of the track listings for the show: these are complete music recordings, filled with the heavy, heavy, heavy doses of death, destruction, and degradation. They don't try to be clever here: if you are looking for depth in lyrics, grab an old Iron Maiden album (you know, before they bought Europe). The drum contribution from Gene Hoglan really sets the full throttle pace of the entire album, while....get this: ACTUAL GUITAR SOLOS! Remember guitar solos? I think Metallica did them once. Being a Deth-Metal inspired album, don't expect a Rob Halford expose on singing. Low, graveling, spoken-word-like singing can sometimes be hard to hear in some of the more thundering songs, but it works throughout the album. Collectively, with the tone and how each song is structured, it is a surprisingly good album, even if its a album about a fictional metal band making light of the whole metal mess. It gets five stars because a lot of work went into making this album and making it right, and it was made by real metal fans. Review: Awaken! - Awesome album. You know, I've always sort of loved, shall we call it, "death metal", but only for the music. The problem I have with metal is that it usually takes itself too seriously. The music is awesome but the lyrics usually leave me in a state of, "wtf?" Dethklok is awesome metal music with lyrics that don't take it seriously and (once you manage to interpret them) are actually pretty funny. The Lost Vikings, for example, is a tale of a group of men who ride out to battle without a map, get lost and are too proud to ask for directions, choosing to simply ride around randomly and if anyone asks them about it they lie and say they're riding around on purpose. Murmaider is a tale of caution about what might happen if you attempt to murder mermaids. Everything about this music is hard core metal except the lyrics and that's why it works so well for me. I was so glad when I saw they had added this to desertcart's MP3 download section. It's well worth it. I hope they add the rare bonus CD as well (which has the Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle). Offer me that and I'll buy it, too.