Dethklok

Dethklok
Dethklok is both a virtual death metal band and a band featured in the Adult Swim animated program Metalocalypse. In the Metalocalypse series, Dethklok was depicted as an extremely popular and successful death metal band.

With their widespread commercial success and lucrative sponsorship contracts, Dethklok is ranked as the world's seventh largest economy in the series.

The bands adversaries, the Tribunal, described them as the world's greatest cultural force. Dethklok is sometimes cited as an example of comedy rock on par with bands such as GWAR and Spinal Tap.

Their fan base includes millions of metal fanatics, who frequently endanger themselves to watch the band perform live. The death metal band Dehlok came up with their first release, The Dethalbum, on September 25, 2007.

The album contained Brendon Smalls music which was heard on Metalocalypse. Featuring Small and drummer Gene Hoglan, Dethalbum debuted at number 21 on the Billboard Top 200 list.

On September 18, 2007, it was announced that ?And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead are going to support Dethklok on a tour of twelve college campuses to promote Adult Swim.

Brendon Small is the frontman, lead vocalist and lyrical visionary of the band. Portrayed as a tall figure, with long black hair and dark eyes, Nathan is apparently the lead songwriting force in Dethklok, and uses violent imagery or plot elements when writing and composing song material.

Pickles is Dethklok's drummer, raised in Tomahawk, Wisconsin and speaks with a Yooper dialect. He is depicted as having an average build with a slight beer belly and thus refers to himself as very Irish American and has red hair, styled into dreadlocks and a comb-over skullet.

Describing the character, Small said, I thought the drummer should be able to do a bunch of stuff, like Roger Taylor in Queen. Toki Wartooth is Dethklok's rhythm guitarist. He is a native of Norway and has a distinct whisker-like style of mustache known as the Fu Manchu.

Skwisgaar Skwigelf is Dethklok's lead guitarist, described as a handsome guy who thinks he's the greatest thing in the world, with a little bit of Yngwie Malmsteen in his attitude.

William Murderface is Dethklok's bassist who plays a Gibson Thunderbird Studio 5-string. Murderface is a self-hating bass player who's always trying to act like he's more important than he is. He has brown hair, lime green eyes, a heavy lateral lisp and a diastema.

Hailing from Sweden, Skwisgaar possesses a heavy Swedish accent. He is responsible for the majority of the arrangement of Dethklok's songs, writing both the guitar lines as well as Murderface's bass lines. Murderface's voice is achieved by Tommy Blacha putting paper towels inside his mouth when voicing the character.

During a February 10, 2008 interview on California radio station Indie 103.1 with Full Metal Jackie, Dethklok announced their plans for a summer 2008 tour. Brendon Small described the tour as being like a Disney ride but with murder.

The death metal band toured the U.S. in June and early July with Chimaira and Soilent Green. During the June 5th show in San Francisco, an electrical fire broke out during Soilent Green's set.

The show was immediately halted and the building was evacuated. In July 2008, Williams Street began selling a vinyl version of the Dethalbum, containing every song from the standard album, on their online store.