After two weeks, I went to my own studio alone for a month and a half and wrote all the music. I told them the story, we fleshed it out, and I configured it musically in my head. The way the whole thing happened was that I had this idea for a story, so I sat in the writers' room with two other writers who have been working with me on a couple other seasons. Fans loved it so much that Small released three albums for the "band," and the second, 2009's Dethalbum II, actually became the highest-charting death metal album in history.Ĭan you tell me a bit about your writing process? It focuses on a fictional death metal band named Dethklok, and each episode features a song "performed" by the band amid a hilarious plot, animation carefully synced to the music, and a great trademark: The "bleeps" used for extreme profanity are replaced by pinch harmonics. If you haven't seen it, you're probably not a true metalhead - seriously.
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The rock opera is based on the Adult Swim series Metalocalypse, Small's television project, in which he co-produces, co-writes, composes music, and provides his voice-acting talents.
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However, neither is directing a Soundgarden music video, then releasing a solo album, and co-headlining alongside Mastodon in said fictional metal band - just because fans wanted the cartoon band to tour that badly.īut that's all part of the bigger picture in Brendon Small's life, which is consumed by the February 25 release of the Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem CD/vinyl soundtrack.
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Creating a virtual band that somehow became the highest-charting death metal band in history and posing in Playgirl magazine aren't usually two things that go hand-in-hand.