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Metalocalypse Season 2 (plus season 1 on DVD)
Noct:
I'm listening to Dethalbum as I type this and... damn. I don't consider myself to be a huge fan of metal, but this stuff is way better than it has any right to be. Also, best choice of opening track ever.
KharBevNor:
WE CALL OUT TO THE BEASTS OF THE SEA TO COME FORTH AND JOIN US
THIS NIGHT IS YOURS!
FOR, ONE DAY, WE WILL ALL BE WITH YOU IN THE BLACKENED DEEP
ONE DAY, WE WILL ALL GO INTO THE WATER...
GO! INTO! THE WAAATER!
LIVE THERE! DIE THERE!
LIVE THERE! DIE!
WE REJECT OUR EARTHLY FIRES
GONE ARE DAYS OF LAND EMPIRES
LUNGS TRANSFORM TO TAKE IN WATER
CLOAKED IN SCALES WE SWIM AND SWIM AND SWIM
*SOLO*
A few ommissions I'm sad about. I could have done with some non-Dethklok material on the bonus disc (I'm Just a Rock 'n Roll Clown, Happy Metal World Rainbow, Crush My Battle Opponents Balls, Underwater Friends) though the new songs, particularly The Lost Vikings, do kinda make up for that.
The thing that scares me is that some of them aren't even really joke songs in the scheme of things. Go Into The Water, Awaken Mustakrakish and Castratikron particularly. This kind of stuff could never have been pulled off by someone who didn't really like their metal.
Lord Rocket:
I have an anecdote. Bear with me.
A little while ago, I was doing vocals in a black metal parody band called 'The Spire of Inversion' (named for one of the 101 rules of black metal). We didn't last very long, but I wrote lyrics about all the various BM cliches - demons, worshipping Satanic monoliths, etc. etc.
None of them were very good, but my epic was going to be about being sodomised by Satan on God's throne in Heaven, which is an idea I'm proud of.
The reason why I mention it is because no matter how preposterous my concepts were, Scandanavians of various sorts had been there before me. And they meant it. Let's not forget that Varg's first band was named after Tolkein's Orcs.
That's the peculiar genius of Brandon Small. His songs don't seem like jokes, because bands that had come before him have done things that are far, far more idiotic (I'm looking at you, Cannibal Corpse). But then you realise that he's singing about mutating into mermen and overthrowing the land-folk, or summoning monsters in order to gather testicles for some evil ritual. Or something.
If people didn't know it was a joke, they'd probably take it seriously. And, that, my friends, is satire.
Dimmukane:
What if you know it's a joke and you still take it seriously?
Johnny C:
Then you're doing it wrong.
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