Then there’s the Metalcore dud Ghostqueen which should have been cut entirely. Since we’re on the subject of flaws: there are vamps that go on for too long (as in Crush the Industry), endings that wear out their welcome (as in The Hammer), and guitar solos that don’t really deliver (as with the ham-fisted Fredrik Thordendal tribute in Starved). Brendon also utilizes a slightly different growl on this album that I’m not entirely sold on. This is something that might alienate longtime Dethklok fans, especially those who were more interested in the comedy then the music. These musical changes coincide with a dramatic lyrical change, as well, because while songs like The Hammer and Biological Warfare carry a certain tongue-in-cheek wit, most of the lyrics are indistinguishable from your standard Extreme Metal fare. Most of the songs on this album charge forth with an exhilarating synergy of primal fury and mathematical efficiency that will have you both banging your head and considering a degree in music composition. Drum legend Gene Hoglan lays into some serious back-beats, blast-beats, and double-kick, all while very tastefully accenting the rhythms that Brendon is playing. There are also plenty of solos, although they vary in quality, and his infectious guitar leads will be stuck in your head for days. There’s even a riff in Rejoin that could be on a NWOBHM album if it were in standard tuning. The songs on this album are powerful, cohesive assaults of Melodic Death Metal that will make you question whether they were really written by the same people behind goofy parody songs like “Face Fisted.” Brendon riffs like he’s never riffed before on this album, drawing heavily from later At The Gates, although there are ideas lifted from a wide range of styles. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the answer to that question was: writing much better songs. Still, I found the evolution of the Dethklok project to be interesting – especially in light of their touring with Metal giants like Mastodon – and I was curious to see what Brendon Small and the gang had been up to lately. I found the songs to be a clueless mess of Metal stereotypes: simplistic breakdowns, boorish riffs, death growls, and flashy lead guitars. You can hear it in the keyboards, and it’s a major key song.To be honest, the actual music from Metalocalypse was always my least favorite part of the program. It’s not heavy metal at all – it’s almost more inspired by Raspberry Beret-era Prince. So you get to see the difference between him and the other characters.
And while the rest of the band is talking about money, he’s talking about his heart. Toki Wartooth is awaiting his death, and while he’s waiting, he thinks of his happiest moment to calm himself down, which is getting into the band Dethklok. “It’s a song of exciting empowerment that’s bookended by two horrible situations. It’s comical in nature, but there’s a brutal realism to it.” I Believe There’s a part where the woman cuts off a guy’s dick and says, ‘Bleed on the floor like a bitch’, and the man’s saying, ‘I’m bleeding like how you bleed – how can you still be alive?’ Which is asking how a woman can still live through every month. It’s about a group of women who become empowered and start castrating a bunch of men, and um… basically, read the chorus lyrics.
“Most of the song is sung from a woman’s point of view, which is something I haven’t heard much of in heavy metal. And it’s got a fun, hooky chorus that you’re used to hearing on the Dethklok stuff.” Andromeda And it turns out it’s his ex-wife who’s taken a whole bunch of stuff from him, and it’s unresolved issues after unresolved issues. And even as I was improvising melodies and improvising lyrics, I realised it was about a superhero who’s on his way to go and save somebody, but the person he’s saving is someone who’s he’s got a really complicated relationship with, and he’s complaining the whole time that he’s on her way to save her. “It’s the first song where I really started understanding what the Galaktikon record would be. It’s quite destructive, just terrible parts of human nature – destroy, destroy, destroy.” On My Way That’s another theme that I picked up from Queen again, from The Prophet’s Song, which was about, ‘The Earth is ending, we’ve got to build an ark, we’ve got to save only part of humanity, and only part of the animals’, and so this one’s just about, ‘We’re not going to save anything everyone’s obliterated.’ And it’s really exciting for me, for that reason. “It’s about a big comet coming to Earth and destroying anything that’s ever lived.
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