Black metal rarely grabs the heartstrings, but Dethklok has found the touch. The animated band from the Adult Swim program Metalocalypse – created by Brandon Small of “Home Movies” glory – is now officially the blackest out there. Slayer may as well be made out of puppies. Lordi is similarly watered down to something between kittens and grandmothers – soft, unintimidating and innocuous as a hibernating bear cub. Hell man, the heart always has bloodlust. That’s just a fact. The band makes grisly operas – a phrase that seems to outfit the general nature of the band’s material because the tongue-in-cheek lyrics of overboard murder and destruction all form single pegs in one gigantic song that’s just been chopped up into bloody, bloody stanzas. Without getting too prim and proper, the dark lords of Dethklok strive to find the perfect murder and even more importantly, the proper way to express it in song. The songs on the debut album, which blasts hellfire and sends shards of guttural guitar riffs into the ears the way nail guns put together a floor (Dethklok could only dream of displacing the analogy with real nail guns), has become a shockingly well-received metal record – moving into the Billboard top 20 charts and leading to Dethklok playing sold out shows in college campuses across the country, with …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead opening. The first season of the cartoon features timeless moments (all of them involving bassist William Murderface – perhaps a Hives reference) that include a birthday gift of the limousine that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in, with the driver’s seat replaced with the red throne-line chair that Abraham Lincoln was sitting in when he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. The car was pimped out with huge wheels and the treat was that Murderface would get to destroy real life history of the United States of America in a demolition derby. He cried one lone tear of blood. We laughed blood. – Sean Moeller

Dethklok checks in with their five favorite things of the past week:
William Murderface — Five things last week: One…Good sandwich. Two…Uh….So drunk. Three….Prison riots on National Geographic Channel. That’s it….only three good things happened

Skwisgaar Skwigelf — I saw a priest slips on ice once….Dats was funny.

Pickles — In the previous week?

SS — No.

Nathan Explosion — It’s supposed to be from the last week.

SS — I don’t care, I still use dat one. Da priest what falls on ice.

Toki Wartooth — Yea, dat beats me. I use dat one too except I makes it a nun what wears leather.

P — I use that one.

WM — I answered correctly.

NE — You only said three.

WM — Fuck off.

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