Rocktober? Shocktober? Mohawktober? Here at ComicsAlliance, we just can’t decide what we want to celebrate this month, so we’re bringing you a different monthly theme every day! Today, we’re celebrating the second most brutal fictional death metal band of all time, Dethklok, seen above performing the pretty amazing act of poisoning readers with their own blood in the pages of Eric Powell and Brendon Small’s Dethklok vs. The Goon! Join us for our favorite track from Nathan Explosion, Toki Wartooth, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, Pickles (the drummer) and William Murderface after the cut!

Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/10/20/comicsalliance-celebrates-dethkloktober/#ixzz1befzXwSz

Say what you want, but there is no finer song title in all of music than "Laser Cannon Death Sentence." Suck on that, Lennon and McCartney, and for the rest of you, ComicsAlliance wishes you a very brutal Dethkloktober!

http://www.mxdwn.com/2011/08/16/features/brendon-small-interview-metalocalypse-may-end-soon-but-dethklok-will-go-on/

August 16th, 2011

A few weeks back mxdwn covered this year’s installment of the Mayhem Festival in San Bernardino. While we were there, we took the time to speak with Metalocalypse/Dethklok mastermind Brendon Small. Small was casual and frank about the state of his mega successful Cartoon Network show Metalocalypse, explaining to us how the show itself might be coming to an end. He quipped at one point dryly of the band’s technically cartoon status, “We don’t exist. I think I do exist.”

In between working on season 4 of the wildly popular show–which will be returning to its original quarter hour format–Small has completed and named a new solo project, appropriately titled Brendon Small’s Galaktikon. A project featuring him and live Dethklok band members Bryan Beller and Gene Hoglan (famous for his work in Death and Strapping Young Lad), he describes it as a, “High stakes intergalactic rock album.”

Live Dethklok is backed by a large video wall, playing videos synced to the songs featuring their animated counterparts shredding or banging along. As to any future evolution of the Dethklok performance experience itself Small expressed enthusiasm for the technology utilized to pull off Japanese hologram performer Hatsune Miko. He remarked, “It’s amazing. It’s a great idea.” He jokes with a smile, “I was at Disneyland recently, which is not metal, but it’s cool. I’m not very metal, I don’t know if you noticed that yet.” Small detailed his own affinity for an attraction at Disneyland called “The Wonderful World of Color.” He explains, “[It's] this huge gigantic pit of water it’s 300 yards wide. They shoot the water up in the air and they project the images onto that. Then they shoot fire into the water. I thought if you could get a band there, some kind of protective shell covering and glass and have them play. You’d worship them like gods. You could start your own new religion.” Small offers humorously in discussing this innovative approach, “The way I pitched this show was a big stupid Disneyland ride, but with murder.”

Upon being queried as to whether a Metalocalypse movie is in the cards for the show (much like South Park’s creators did with South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut), Small indicates that the animated program might be drawing to a close. “My goal is to do this season and then do a movie and then end it,” he states soberly. He adds, “We’re at the mercy of budgets.” South Park is apparently the bar for quality in the TV cartoon-turned movie arena. He explains, “South Park, they’re the ones that nailed it. Amazing, that they did that. What a feat. I remember laughing until my face hurt.”

And if Metalocalypse may be coming to a close, what of the human driven Dethklok band? Small offers that creating an entity that allows for audio-driven entity to continue was always part of the plan, stating, “I wanted to be able to have an audio driven show. Maybe the show gets cancelled, I can keep the audio alive. So, I would love to keep on making Dethklok records forever.”

To hear the whole interview, please watch the video below.

Photos by Raymond Flotat

By Raymond FlotatPosted in Featuresadult swim, Brendon Small, Dethklok, Metalocalypse

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DETHKLOK’s BRENDON SMALL Interviewed By MishMash Magazine (Audio) – July 15, 2011
Blabbermouth.net

MishMash Magazine 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. You can now listen to the chat in two parts below.…

Brendon Small on Mayhem Fest & Dethklok/Metalocalypse
Crave Online
The Metalocalypse mastermind breaks off a few answers for Crave before Dethklok headlines Mayhem Fest. By Johnny Firecloud "Metalocalypse" mastermind Brendon Small wears many hats of awesome: he’s a comedian, a voice actor, a writer, filmmaker and …

Reposted from: RockStarMayhemFest.com

We’ll Ask Your Questions For Dethklok

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Dethklok will be performing at the Mayhem kick off Show in San Bernardino, CA. We’ll be out there getting interviews and we’d like to know – what questions would you ask Dethklok if you could? Let us know and your questions could possibly end up in the interview!

Click the link for the video

How does a guy go from Berklee guitar whiz to Adult Swim creative mastermind? Well, if you’re Brendon Small, you do it with a king-sized sense of humor, coupled with the mind and fingers of a metal riff monster. Small’s Cartoon Network hit, Metalocalypse, is a late-night must for metal fans and cartoon lovers alike. The show’s fictional band, Dethklok, has proven so popular that Small himself (who shreds for the program soundtrack) has recorded and toured with a live version of Dethklok. Now his metal status is forever enshrined with the release of the Gibson USA Dethklok “Thunderhorse” Explorer. Small sat down at the Beverly Hills Gibson Showroom to talk about his own winding journey to stardom and the monster of a guitar waiting for him at the end of that road.

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]]> http://www.dethklok.org/2011/02/06/this-week-in-the-news/feed/ 1 http://www.dethklok.org/2010/10/21/one-update-and-some-others-to-look-at/ http://www.dethklok.org/2010/10/21/one-update-and-some-others-to-look-at/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:51:33 +0000 info http://www.dethklok.org/2010/10/21/one-update-and-some-others-to-look-at/ “Laser Cannon Deth Sentence”  from Dethklok’s Dethalbum II is featured on Guitar Hero’s Metal Track Pack available January 21st.
You may download it from http://www.guitarhero.com

DETHKLOK NOMINATED SPIN MAGAZINE METAL BAND OF THE YEAR! VOTE NOW!!

VOTE for DETHKLOK in SPIN MAGAZINE for BEST METAL BAND OF THE YEAR 2009!

Nominated by fans but now it’s time to vote and bring it HOME!

Click here and VOTE!

http://www.spin.com/articles/year-end-poll-2009

Read more:http://www.myspace.com/dethklok/blog#ixzz133IJZHTK

"Bloodlines" named in Top 10 Metal Songs of 2009

AOL Radio compiled a list of the Top 10 Metal Songs of 2009, based on ratings by AOL Radio listeners.  Coming in at #4 is Dethklok’s "Bloodlines," a track off the DethAlbum II. 

The boys from "Metalocalypse" are joined on the list by legendary bands such as Slayer and Megadeth. To check out the full article, click on the link below:

AOL Radio Names Dethklok to Top 10 Metal Songs of 2009

Read more:http://www.myspace.com/dethklok/blog#ixzz133ILYdYc

New LA WEEKLY Interview with Brendon Small

LA Weekly recently did a full-page feature about "Metalocalypse" and co-creator Brendon Small.  The story explores the origins of the most brutal show on TV, as well as the success of the live Dethklok show and the DethAlbum II.  The full interview can be found at:

http://www.laweekly.com/2009-11-12/music/brendon-small-8217-s-metalocalyptic-vision

For a preview of the story, read below…

BRENDON SMALL’S METALOCALYPTIC VISION

How a popular cartoon on Adult Swim spawned a live band

Brendon Small’s Hollywood office is a compact space lined with posters and crammed with stuff: toys, papers, boxes. There are lots of packages, the three largest of which sit in the middle of the floor.

“It’s like having a birthday,” Small says, his voice trailing off as he rips into the first box, pulls out a guitar case and opens it.

To continue reading the article, click here.

Article by: http://music-mix.ew.com/author/clarkcollis/

You’d have to go a long way to find someone who likes the death metal-themed Adult Swim cartoon show Metalocalypse as much as Iskreeeeak-ing do. In fact, you might have to go as far as Seattle, or wherever the the assorted members of the recently reformed Soundgarden call home these days. The grunge icons have proven their love by recruiting Metalocalypse co-creator Brendon Small to oversee the clip for “Black Rain,” a Badmotorfinger-era outtake that features on Soundgarden’s upcoming retrospective CD Telephantasm.

In truth, the video is not as funny asMetalocalypse—or funny at all, really. But it does boast giant monsters, a huge ‘Garden-controlled robot thingummybob, Metalocalypsestars Dethklok, and a nicely epic and phantasmagorical vibe. It also features a hard-to-miss plug for Guitar Hero, the latest version of which—Warriors of Rock—is released September 28 and is initially available for purchase with copies of Telephantasm included.

Thanks to Andrew for sending this in!

When Brendon Small penned the first episodes of Adult Swim’sMetalocalypse, he was quickly realizing that his other great passion – the guitar – was becoming just as essential as the punch lines he delivered on the animated cult hit. In a sense, he had truly come full circle. After graduating from the Berklee College of Music in 1997, Small opted for a comedian’s life by honing his stand-up act and eventually creating the animated series Home Movies. It wasn’t until he conceived the dark, bloody, and extremely humorous world of the fictional band Dethklok that he was able to once again truly find a suitable outlet for his music……. See the rest here