Dethklok National College Tour Stops at UCLA, 11/1/07
What Dutch death metal ubermensch at Adult Swim thought this shit up! Funny ha-ha! Not to be missed.
AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD opened and peaked and tapered off with a twenty minute set. Or was it forty minutes. I’m not knowing these guys from a hole in the wall, so take this with a grain of salt, but… eh.
Interim moments were about the Guitar Hero 3. MTV chestnuts like Living Color’s “Cult of Personality” are now party and parcel of the game. (Some GH3 god took obeisance from the crowd for getting up on stage and scoring three hundred unbroken perfect notes. Singular funny “booOOoo” from an irony-minded drunkard after the man left.) Virgin had two screens that posted text messages and photographs from crowd folk with cell access, and I think they were giving something away. Did anyone sign up for their non iPhone-having thing? Resentment at the fact that they sponsored is what I remember about their outfit.
Now, this cartoon METALOCALYPSE is not one I have ever seen prior to this event, but I will be downloading it. Funny fuckin’ ha-ha. Death Metal sent up with full marks. A five member virtual ensemble like Gorillaz made from amalgams of Danzig, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, you name it. Sort of like Voivod in their undead Vikingness. The zombie-filled, anti-authority message of DETHKLOK is such an unbelievably hyperbolic tribute to the genre, nay, to anyone who ever wished a MegaDeth tee shirt brougth to life, that it really has to be seen. The voices and band behind the cartoon play DETHKLOK metal and despise their fans as they summon Mustakrakish or tell the tale of the death mermaids, or just pay their taxes. The backstory is Adult Swim 101: DETHKLOK is “the world’s greatest cultural force” (RE: METALLICA) and rack up a body count at every show. All DETHKLOK crew and legal teams wear executioner’s hoods. And yet there are bearded philosophers and army generals trying to stop them from converting the world into metalheads, “The Tribunal”.
Get your feet wet. Wet with Blood. See DETHKLOK on three screens at college campuses across America.
The fact that you don’t know Trail of Dead “from a hole in the wall” is incredibly sad. Someone like you should not be allowed anywhere near a music website. Sad Sad Sad.
Enh, Trail of Dead hasn’t done a damn thing interesting since Source Codes, and even that was overrated. Boring, boring band.
Er, make that Source Tags. Whatev.
Blake, “incredibly sad” is when you follow lockstep to the beat of some boring ass band because of some early aught legislated nostalgia. I’m sorry that your boys wasted my mother fucking time, really I am.
I’m sorry you’re more interested in a cartoon band and songs from a video game than an actual living breathing band that has made some of the best music of the last five years. Go listen to So Divided, that came out in 2006 and guess what? It’s real good, but it doesn’t come on a playstation or an xbox so it probably wouldn’t interest you.
correct me if i’m wrong, here, but isn’t there an actual living breathing band playing the Dethklok songs?
Yes, there is an actual living band, but the question is really this: when do I stop swagging off at him for telling me my opinion isn’t to his liking? What little I think of it is irrevelant. I’ve stood up for my favorite bands before, so I know what’s up.
Sorry for the drama, Blake.
Brendon Small, the show’s creator, wrote the songs and leads the kick-ass live band (http://www.brendonsmall.com/)
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Does anyone know the actual dethkount [# of people who died so far in the metalocalypse] If so please tell me… I NEED TO KNOW!
well at least one real man died at their show in st. pete last night:), and it was infact quite brutal.