“World’s greatest death metal band” Dethklok from the Adult Swim TV show created by Brendon Small (“Home Movies”), “Metalocalypse” unleashed a cataclysmic album known as Dethalbum II.

The show “Metalocalypse” revolves around the band Dethklok and its misanthropic, narrcissistic members,

• Nathan Explosion (vocalist) voiced by Brendon Small,
• Toki Wartooth (guitarist) voiced by Tommy Blacha,
• Skwisgaar Skwigelf (guitarist) voiced by Small,
• William Murderface (bassist) voiced by Blacha,
• Pickles the Drummer (drummer) voiced by Blacha,

and their daily lives as stars who are responsible for the world’s 12th largest economy.

Even though the members aren’t real, the creators, and voice actors do tour with a back-up band, and provides the nusic for the fictional band.

Brendon Small does all the guitar, bass, vocal tracks for the show, and CD, while Gene Hoglan provides just the drums.

Dethalbum II is a great album, the songs seemed to have been extended in length, and added more of a reality to them. Although the lyrics of this album aren’t as humorous as the previous album, they still obtain their value the humorus side of metal.

The guitars in this album have awesome melodies, and the drumming is fast, yet rythmic which is alot to say when compared to most bands now a days. Everything about this album is epic, from its vocals, to its drumming.

The CD comes with 12 tracks, most of which appear in the show in certian episodes.

• Bloodlines (Dethcarraldo)
• The Gears (Dethsources)
• Burn the Earth (Dethvengeance)
• Laser Cannon Deth Sentence (Dethecution)
• Black Fire Upon Us (Dethrelease)
• Dethsupport (Revengencers)
• The Cyborg Slayers
• I Tamper With the Evidence At the Murder Site of Odin (Dethlessons)
• Murmaider II: The Water God
• Comet Song (P.R. Klok)
• Symmetry (Dethfashion)
• Volcano (Dethdoubles)

The members of Dethklok are currently on its third tour with Mastadon, Converge and High on Fire.

Small told LA Weekly “the whole idea was ‘How do you make this a band, how do you make this exist by itself with or without the TV show? If the TV show gets cancelled, could I keep making music? That’s the goal.”