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Dethklok Rules…

Metalocalyspe is perhaps by far my favorite show on TV. It’s 15 min long, and totally METAL featuring the antics of the heavy metal band, Dethklok. Recently the second album featuring songs from season two was released. Overall it’s pretty intense and brutal, and sounds like a proper album. The first album was great, but seemed to be more gimmicky, then again the show was never really serious.

Anyways the new album features 12 tracks, in order along with the episode it was featured in (wikipedia) :

1. “Bloodlines” (from “Dethcarraldo”) – 3:30
2. “The Gears” (from “Dethsources”) – 4:21
3. “Burn the Earth” (from “Dethvengeance”) – 3:59
4. “Laser Cannon Deth Sentence” (from “Dethecution”) – 4:35
5. “Black Fire Upon Us” (from “Dethrelease”, AKA “Black Fire Upon Us”) – 5:40
6. “Deth Support” (from “The Revengencers”, AKA “Sicklok”) – 2:42
7. “The Cyborg Slayers” (Original) – 4:16
8. “I Tamper with the Evidence at the Murder Site of Odin” (from “Dethlessons”) – 4:30
9. “Murmaider II: The Water God” (Original) – 5:43
10. “Comet Song” (from “P.R. Klok”, AKA “P.R. Pickles”) – 3:48
11. “Symmetry” (from “Dethfashion”) – 4:31
12. “Volcano” (from “Dethdoubles”) – 4:18

So what’s my verdict? Well before I give it, I need to say I am not much a reviewer but to be fair let’s say the highest I can give this album in terms of a numerical ranking should be twelve thus 12/12 being a 100% perfect album and all the songs rock.  With that in mind I would give it at 10/12 landing at decent 83%.

All the songs are great, my favorites being “The Gears”, “Laser Cannon Deth Sentence”. and “Comet Song”. Laser Cannon Deth Sentence has some incredible drumming and double bass work from legendary metal drummer Gene Hoglan. I would like to post a youtube clip for the audio of that song, but I can predict that sooner than later that will be taken down from youtube. So if you want to listen to it, go search for it or just get the album.

Anyways back to my review. So the reason I would give it an 83% is that new original song, “The Cyborg Soldiers” was okay but did not feel like a Dethklok song. And Murmaider 2 was not as entertaining as the first track from the first album. It has some of the same guitar riffs but overall at least to me it lost the aggressiveness that “Murmaider” had from the first album.

So if you are a metal head, and fan of Metalocalypse go get this album. And if you are not a fan of Metalocalypse but love metal, you are seriously missing out on some great music. If by chance you don’t like metal… well sadly you are really missing out on some truly amazing musicianship.