Dethklok: The Dethalbum II
This September 8 will see everything turned to metal by the return of the animated band Dethklok with the second album, appropriately titled “The Dethalbum II” via William Street records. The band, from Adult Swim’s “Metalocalypse” cartoon return in their sophomore effort with 12 full-length tracks detailing DETHKLOK’s exploits in murder, mayhem and all things brutal.
The album Written by series co-creator Brendon Small and recorded alongside legendary drummer Gene Hoglan, will be released as both a standard edition and a two-disc deluxe edition on CD and via digital download beginning september 8. The limited edition vinyl record of the album will be released later, on September 29th.
The track listing is as follows:
01. Bloodlines
02. The Gears
03. Burn the Earth
04. Laser Canon Deth Sentence
05. Black Fire Upon Us
06. Deth Support
07. The Cyborg Slayers
08. I Tamper with the Evidence at the Murder Site of Odin
09. Murmaider II: The Water God
10. Comet Song
11. Symmetry
12. Volcano
The deluxe edition will include a bonus DVD with 52 minutes of never-before-released music videos featured in the 2008 DETHKLOK tour.
The “Metalocalypse” television series, created by Brendon Small (“Home Movies”) and Tommy Blacha (“Da Ali G Show”), launched in 2006 and has reached its third season on Adult Swim statestide, with a trickle of episodes seen on Bravo’s Adult swim block in ol’ blighty. As one of the most popular series on the cable network watched by more than five million 18-34 year-old viewers, the show portrays DETHKLOK as a metal band with unheard-of popularity, even ranking them as the seventh-largest economy on earth. In 2007, DETHKLOK broke the fourth wall and threatened the world economy with the CD release of “The Dethalbum”. The album featured of full-length songs usually only partially heard during the show’s episodes, taking show fans and metal head audiences alike by storm and has bizarrely successful. Featuring an amazing assortment of metal musicians ”The Dethalbum” sold amazingly fast with more than 34,000 copies in its first week, the album became the highest charting death metal album ever before going on to sell more than 300,000 copies to date.
In addition to the second release the merchandising machine is going insane with a number of products wing their way to you soon including an authentic guitar TAB songbook released in spring featuring all 15 regular tracks plus the hidden “Metalocalypse” theme song in authentic guitar TAB transcriptions approved by the show’s guitarist, composer, and creator, Brendon Small. Each songbook includes a free DVD, featuring a lesson from Brendon Small on how to play the theme song and an animated guitar lesson by the fastest guitar player alive, DETHKLOK’s own Skwisgaar Skwigelf.
Dethfigures; now with added Murderface!
Other oncoming products include the limited edition Dethklok Action figures, limited to a run of 500, and even more awesome: a Metalocalypse video game The game, which was to be announced at San Diego Comic Con last week is set firmly in the world of the show, good news considering creator Brendan Small was involved in the project. the show’s creator, worked with Konami to produce “Metalocalypse: Dethgame” as a downloadable title for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3.
In addition to extending plot of the show, the game follows a band of roadies or Klokateers, who will be charged with the task of protecting the band and their own mega-mansion, Mordhaus, from ‘rabid mutant fans.’ There will also be mini-games.” Which leaves the opportunity for series favourites like Dr. Rockso to appear as some sort of boss-type mutant, or perhaps Mustakracish the giant troll. Songs like “Briefcase Full of Guts will also serve as a back drop for the game, which, given the ridiculously gory reputation of the show would seem likely to provide similar game play.
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