Deathklok interview
Metalocalypse
Interview: Dethklok
A Q&A with the world's most popular heavy metal band, soon to have their own Adult Swim series.
by IGN Staff
July 14, 2006 - Premiering Sunday, Aug. 6 at 11:45pm ET/PT on Adult Swim is Metalocalypse, a new animated comedy series from Tommy Blacha (Da Ali G Show) and Brendon Small (Home Movies).
Metalocalypse follows the on- and off-stage adventures of Dethklok, the world's most popular and heaviest heavy metal band. The band is so popular that thousands of fans will travel to a remote area of Scandinavia to hear them perform a single song: a jingle for a coffee company. So popular that these fans will sign "pain waivers" in case anything truly horrible happens to them at a show, which invariably occurs. The band members are also incredibly selfish and stupid, and they create a wave of mayhem, death and destruction wherever they go.
The members of Dethklok are:
Nathan Explosion - Vocalist. The lyrical visionary of Dethklok.
Skwisgaar Skwigelf - Guitar. From Sweden. Fastest guitar player alive.
Toki Wartooth - Guitar. From Norway. Second-fastest guitar player alive.
William Murderface - Bass. No one in the world is full of more hatred than him. And he hates no one more than he hates himself.
Pickles - Drummer. Raised in the Midwest, he became the world's most celebrated drummer after fronting L.A. rock band Snakes and Barrels.
The five Dethklok members recently sat down with the press to discuss their music, their influences, and the band. Below are their responses, followed by the pain waiver they require all Dethklok concert-goers to sign.
Dethklok: William Murderface, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, Nathan Explosion, Pickles, & Toki Wartooth
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Dethklok: William Murderface, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, Nathan Explosion, Pickles, & Toki Wartooth
Q: First, let's start with the persistent rumors that Dethklok has signed a contract with the devil. Can you finally put this to rest?
William Murderface: I'll put you to rest.
Toki Wartooth: The devil is dildoes.
Nathan Explosion: There is no such thing as the devil because there has to be a god in order for there to be a devil. And we all know there is no god. And if there were a GOD then he would have protected us from signing that deal with the devil. And now we're stuck with a deal with some guy who doesn't even exist.
Q: If Dethklok is the heaviest band in the world, and also the most popular band in the world, what does that say about the world?
William Murderface: I'd like to destroy world hunger by destroying the world.
Toki Wartooth: I love questions, and dats a good one.
Skwisgaar Skwigelf: It means nothing because, heavy or not, the world is a black vortex of black Nothingness and I hate our audience.
Q: The band has both the world's fastest and second-fastest guitarists alive in it. Is that a bit of overkill?
William Murderface: I'll overkill you.
Toki Wartooth: No, it's "underlive." Ha ha.
Skwisgaar Skwigelf: Not at all. As the fastest guitarist, I prefer to have someone a little worse at guitar in the band, like Toki. Because I think you would takes it for granted that I am the best. Like you get used to a room filled with the smell of roses until you go into a room with a rotting corpse smell - then you go back to the roses room and extra appreciates it a greats degrees better.
Q: Is it too loud, or am I too old?
William Murderface: I'm too fat.
Toki Wartooth: You gots hairs in your ears.
Pickles: It is loud. It's very loud. Before each show I have liquid concrete poured into my ears so that I don't cause permanent damage. You gotta protect your ears, anyone will tell you that. But what they don't tell you is that you should protect other parts of your body from loudness - for example, we now have to travel with a gastroenterologist.
Q: Nathan, you have a distinctive vocal style. What do you do to take care of your voice and still fill it with anger and hate?
William Murderface: I'm not Nathan.
Nathan Explosion: Two words: Potato chips and chocolate milk. I can go for days smoking and drinking and killing myself staying awake, but have a glass of chocolate milk and a handful of potato chips and I'm good to go.
ep 1 on adult swim now
at Joe B's FBG notes today. hidden gem. A diamond in the snow?
