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DETHKLOK's BRENDON SMALL Interviewed - Nov. 4, 2009

Metal Injection recently conducted an interview with Brendon Small, co-creator of "Metalocalypse", the smash hit animated series on Adult Swim featuring the fictitious metal band DETHKLOK. Watch the chat below.

"Dethalbum II", the new album by DETHKLOK, sold 45,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 15 on The Billboard 200 chart.

"Dethalbum II" was released on September 29 via Williams Street Records. The effort features 12 full-length tracks detailing DETHKLOK's exploits in murder, mayhem and all things brutal. Written by Small and recorded alongside legendary drummer Gene Hoglan, "Dethklok: Dethalbum II" was released as both a standard edition and a two-disc deluxe edition on CD and digital download. Additionally, a limited-edition vinyl of the album was released in to local record shops. The deluxe edition includes a bonus DVD with 52 minutes of never-before-released music videos featured in the 2008 DETHKLOK tour.

Created by Brendon Small ("Home Movies") and Tommy Blacha ("Da Ali G Show"), the "Metalocalypse" television series launched in 2006 and is on its third season on Adult Swim. One of the most popular series on the cable network, "Metalocalypse" portrays DETHKLOK as a Norwegian band with unheard-of popularity, even ranking them as the seventh-largest economy on earth. In 2007, this phenomenal virtual success transformed into real-life success with the CD release of "Dethalbum". Constructed of full-length songs only partially heard during the show's episodes, "Dethalbum" took audiences by storm and has seen unparalleled success. Performed by a commanding assemblage of renowned metal musicians, the album debuted at No. 21 on The Billboard 200 and sold more than 33,000 copies within its first week, making "Dethalbum" the highest-selling death metal album ever, with more than 270,000 copies sold to date.

DETHKLOK has teamed up with Atlanta's hard rock icons MASTODON for a co-headlining tour in October/November. Also appearing on the bill are CONVERGE and HIGH ON FIRE. The 34-city trek kicked off October 2 and is scorching the nation coast to coast.

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	COMMENT \| this is just posted by : megal0maniac 11/4/2009 9:31:35 PM

	a waste of money, and time. the music is plainly bad. it mimics death metal, but doesn't come even close. Hoglan's the best thing in this album. And smalls is playing something more in the vein of trad heavy metal, not death metal.

	COMMENT \| posted by : Land of the Lost Horizon 11/4/2009 9:32:31 PM

	is it wrong to prefer athf over metalocalypse?

	COMMENT \| hmmm posted by : IllAdvised 11/4/2009 9:35:56 PM

	dethklok is okay but in the end it's a fake band. and i agree with mega, it's just plain. there are plenty of real life single member endeavors i've found on myspace including Bloodsoaked and Common dead that are better than dethklok.

	COMMENT \| Re: hmmm posted by : IllAdvised 11/4/2009 9:40:16 PM

	oh yeah, and of course burzum, and bathory, and SHIT LOAD of others, if you want to get closer to death/black europe stuff (the others i mentioned aren't so much death.. in fact, common dead, is thrash).

	COMMENT \| DETHKLOK RULES posted by : EnemyofGod 11/4/2009 10:09:04 PM

	DIE FOR THE KLOK

	COMMENT \| Hey posted by : Vegetaman 11/4/2009 10:59:38 PM

	While the show is only mildly interesting to me, the music is fairly listenable. Moreso than that crapass Spinal Tap fake band.

	COMMENT \| posted by : maidenhouston 11/5/2009 12:11:40 AM

	DETHLOK'S new cd is the shit! Great stuff. Fucking head and shoulders above World Painted Turd by Slayer. I used to really like slayer. Hell I have everything they've ever done but they just sound like re-done versions of themselves. Just crap in my book. There is nothing fresh and new about anything they've done over the last 10 years. Pretty sad actually. When I bought Seasons and RIBlood I was thinking I discovered gravity but ever since then, they've sucked donkey balls.

	COMMENT \| posted by : EL PENDEJO 11/5/2009 12:18:43 AM

	Dethklok rules and it's sad that this fake band is better than most real bands. Cannot wait for the THIRTY mins. new episodes!

	COMMENT \| posted by : ahl 11/5/2009 1:19:46 AM

	hey, shut yo mouth, Spinal Tap is life itself! i lived Spinal tap- drummer got shot, we played for no audiences, band broke up mid tour, girlfriends got in the way, etc and i prefer Squidbillies... DO NOT TOUCH THE TRIM!

	COMMENT \| posted by : Hallowed Point 11/5/2009 1:49:26 AM

	I like both of their albums and I really don't care about this stupid "fake band" trash talk.

	COMMENT \| posted by : rah 11/5/2009 2:14:50 AM

	Small has a good attitude. He avoids an elementary mistake about metal music that so many people on this site do -- taking it too seriously. I particularly like around the 7 minute mark in this interview... "Now you're advancing a whole genre of metal to the masses!" "Uh... not really lol"

	COMMENT \| well posted by : megal0maniac 11/5/2009 3:10:22 AM

	TV controls....your buying preferences. But seriously, i don't watch any of it. Nile is Death metal, this ain't and obviously, DEATH and Chuck wrote the book on what DM is. BTW, talk like : It's the shit n it's cool this thing outsells real bands is just troubling. How old are you ? 15 ? I remember a time when ppl actually have 2 SDFSE ! about music. The music also used to be better and not a contractual obligation. Not Ad dollar$ etc. Anyhow.

	COMMENT \| posted by : Mingleton 11/5/2009 3:30:55 AM

	Dethklok rules!

	COMMENT \| Love the show posted by : Planet Piss 11/5/2009 9:34:25 AM

	And the music on the show, but i wouldnt buy a CD honestly.

	COMMENT \| posted by : agresiva7 11/5/2009 11:07:35 AM

	I need to get Dethalbum II

	COMMENT \| posted by : RiotAct666 11/5/2009 11:36:16 AM

	Great band & TV show

	COMMENT \| for those that take metal too serious... posted by : erpbass6 11/5/2009 1:39:04 PM

	wait til you hear Schwarzenator! Dethklok is great!

	COMMENT \| Dethklok posted by : ricoetc 11/5/2009 2:58:01 PM

	Dethklok is great, but to say that it's better than 75% of metal coming out? If you listened to that much metal then damn... Dethklok is just funny and a great idea. Besides, music is music, you don't like it move on, if you do, awesome!

	COMMENT \| posted by : living_to_die430 11/5/2009 4:57:45 PM

	Thanks for ruining metal asshole! Brendon Small can choke and die...

	COMMENT \| Love the show posted by : Nivek 11/5/2009 7:39:25 PM

	And that it pisses off uptight dickwads who think they are so "Metal' that they only listen to shit from Norway that 50 people listen too.

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