Dethklok - The Dethalbum

Real Metal

As a big fan of the show "Metalocalypse" I was exited about getting this album. I listened to most of the songs online beforehand, loved them, and decided to buy my first music CD since the late 90's. Once I popped it in at home I was attacked by a brutal metal force.

If you like Metallica, Iron Maiden, and guitar solos you will LOVE this CD. Without the cartoon to distract you, the music will surprise you with its quality. Tracks range from very melodic to very heavy, and the lyrics are satiric and dark.

NOTE: "Crush my Battle Opponents Balls" and "Dunkin Hills Jingle" are NOT included in this Album, which was very dissapointing for me. But I'm sure you can get it elsewhere, if you really want to. November 21, 2008

Sometimes the (Metal) Fans Make the Best Music

Metal....You cannot deny it!

Such a simple statement not only is true, it works! And ever since the Led Zeppelin debates that began when they came out, metal bands have come out to define (not just redefine) exactly what metal is. As a metal fan, I can say honestly.....we haven't written the first word because the bands have too often made the music about themselves; often, as in the case of Linkin Park, to hide their shortcomings and inabilities. Heavy metal should always be about the pure mastery of the music, and the bands should be the Sadists in that S&M musical relationship. Even the most honest of metal, death metal, has a lost focus.

Once again, leave it up to the metal fans to save Metal. With 'Metalocalypse', metal fans Tommy Blacha and Brendon Small reminded the world that metal, particularly the cartoon band Dethklok's brand of metal, ruled them. The show, a funny romp about the mythical Dethklok and the extremes they'll go just to sell something, demonstrated at times that the music, though short in clips and bursts, was hypnotically good. It demonstrated that fans of the genre could put together awesome headbangingly good music for the show at least. How about a whole album?

The 'Dethalbum' is the result of pure fan passion. This isn't just a convenient CD with a running order of the track listings for the show: these are complete music recordings, filled with the heavy, heavy, heavy doses of death, destruction, and degradation. They don't try to be clever here: if you are looking for depth in lyrics, grab an old Iron Maiden album (you know, before they bought Europe). The drum contribution from Gene Hoglan really sets the full throttle pace of the entire album, while....get this: ACTUAL GUITAR SOLOS! Remember guitar solos? I think Metallica did them once.

Being a Deth-Metal inspired album, don't expect a Rob Halford expose on singing. Low, graveling, spoken-word-like singing can sometimes be hard to hear in some of the more thundering songs, but it works throughout the album. Collectively, with the tone and how each song is structured, it is a surprisingly good album, even if its a album about a fictional metal band making light of the whole metal mess. It gets five stars because a lot of work went into making this album and making it right, and it was made by real metal fans. September 24, 2008

Very good!

This item was better then i thought it would be, being made from a cartoon show i thought it might not be as well done as it is. Don't be fooled, this is very good music if you like heavy stuff. September 19, 2008

Melts Your Face Off

The fact that this album is associated with a cartoon is completely irrelevant.

If your soul craves the blissful abuse only brought about by hard, HARD music, the answer is Dëthkløk.

To put it bluntly, Dëthkløk, AKA Nathan Explosion, et.al., AKA Brendan Small et.al., found the balls Metallica lost blowing their 'Load', skewered them with a sottering iron, fed them to a summoned Kraken, and road the Kraken to kick Metallica's A**.

All while Old Man Dio watched through moistened eyes and clapped his hands in glee.

If you like Metal, you'll love Dëthkløk. August 7, 2008

Waste of time! (LP Record Version, not CD)

Alright so I'm a total audiophile, I try to buy all my records on vinyl because of the better quality vinyl provides, and I got excited when I saw that they were releasing The Dethalbum on vinyl, because that was my favorite album of 2007, and I was so excited when the UPS man handed it to me today.
But then I opened it and put it on the old turn table.

IT SOUNDS LIKE S***!

One, the quality is awful, it sounds like it's a bad LimeWire download. Honestly. Two, it's sped up. That's right. The entire album is sped up so they could fit it all on one disc, which isn't too noticeable except for the fact that the pitch is a little higher, only a select few will really notice it. A 16 track album on one disc, c'mon, Williams Street, you guys could do better than that! I think if they had stretched it to a Double Disc like it should've been, it would sound PERFECT, but they probably figured most Dethklok fans don't own a record player, and they'd be right about that, but seriously, at least give the die hards a decent sounding record!

I give this album two stars because it's a picture disc and it looks really cool, so it's a good novelty to have, just don't plan on listening to it any time soon because it's a waste of time.

EDIT: The Go Into The Water remix is just the regular version of Go Into The Water with an annoying constant double bass in the background, not worth it. July 15, 2008

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