Dethklok – Fiction To Stage in Arizona

Tempe, Arizona
by David Svendsen

I didn't really know what to think walking in to this show. It's not even a real band. A friend of mine had introduced me to Cartoon Network's (Adult Swim) "Metalocalypse" last year, and I was astonished anything remotely featuring metal so prominently was on TV. Gotta love Adult Swim.

An astonished grin has to encompass Brendon Small's face at all hours of the day. This little "cartoon", as people like to call it, has broken records that most real metal bands can't even get close to. After a highly successful first season on Adult Swim, Small put an actual band together to emulate Dethklok. Who knew he could make the cartoon more brutal?

The soundtrack for season one was released, appropriately titled "The Dethalbum" and it debuted at #21 on the Billboard chart. The highest debut/chart position ever for a death metal album. This isn't a typical sugar coated High School Musical/Miley Cyrus pre-teen snot fest that routinely rules the charts, this is a brutal death metal album (even though the lyrics deal with coffee and mermaids, but who's complaining?).

Read the full review at UnRatedMagazine.com