Pretty big week here at the MetalSucks Mansion. We laughed, we cried, we fired someone, we rocked out with our cocks out. Here’s a rundown of the highlights:

• We debuted a new song by The Devin Townsend Project, a new video by Skeletonwitch, a new song by Javelina, and the cover art for Sigh’s new album.
• Horse the Band’s Lord Gold blogged about Nawlins and cocaine, God Forbid’s Doc Coyle gave us an exclusive statement about that whole cup throwing incident, Dallas Coyle is giving away music for free, and Daath’s Eyal Levi talked about a run-in with the Polacks and drum triggers.
• We spoke to Dethklok’s Brendon Small, Converge’s Jacob Bannon, Gojira’s Joe Duplantier, and Liturgy’s Hunter Hunt-Hendrix.
• We checked out new releases from Baroness, The Red Chord, Skeletonwitch, Immortal, Vains of Jenna, Vampire Mooose, and Javelina. Also, some asshole really likes Oceano.
• We’re sponsoring the incredibly awesome Tyrants of Evil North American Tour 2010 with Arch Enemy, Exodus, Arsis, and Mutiny Within!

Alright. I’m going to see Where the Wild Things Are now. I’m fairly certain that it is going to make me weep like Gary Suarez. See ya Monday.

-AR

Last week we posted a call for questions to ask Metalocalypse creator / Dethklok frontman Brendon Small, and you all gave us your best questions in the comments. Later that day we hand-picked our favorite ones and got on the phone with Brendon to pass them along. Your questions his answers, below.

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Five heavy hitting heavy hitters — Alice in Chains, Hatebreed, Austrian Death Machine, Steel Panther and Dethklok — all released new records last week. Solid 2nd and 3rd week performances from Three Days Grace, Muse, Megadeth, Five Finger Death Punch and others made it an all-around big week for metal. Let’s see how everyone fared after the jump.

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Good morning, our fellow Metalocalypse and Dethklok lovers! So here’s the sitch. Vince is getting on the phone with Brendon Small in just a few hours, and he needs YOUR help getting some juicy questions for Brendon. Post a question in the comments section below by 3:30 pm EST today, and Vince will cherry-pick the best ones to pass onto Brendon. And if he chooses your question, well, maybe we’ll send you some banana stickers or something.

In case, for some inexplicable reason, you don’t know who Brendon Small is: the man – nay, genius – is the co-creator of Metalocalypse (as well as the equally awesome Home Movies), voices the characters of Skwisgaar Skwigelf, Pickles the Drummer, and Nathan Explosion, and will be the dude you see front n’ center when you go see Dethklok live. In other words, Brendon is the shit.

Dethklok’s Dethalbum II is out now on Williams Street Records, and the band is currently on tour with Mastodon, Converge, and High on Fire. Get a complete list of tour dates here.

The new season of Metalocalypse starts November 8 on Adult Swim. And the episodes are gonna be thirty minutes long now! Niiiiice.

-Axl & Vince

Wednesday night Vince and I went to Metal Insider’s totally bitchin’ Dethklok/Dethalbum II listening party, and while we did drink a lot of dollar beers and mack mad bitches (and by “mack mad bitches,” I mean “speak very politely to platonic friends of both sexes”), we could barely hear the album ’cause, y’know. It was in a loud bar and we were talking to people.

So we get to hear Dethalbum II for the first time with the rest of you. But I’m 99.9% sure it’s gonna rock.

It’s streaming right here. Give it a listen. It comes out this Tuesday on Williams Street Records.

-AR

Dethklok’s Dethalbum II promises to be twice as awesome as their Dethalbum – in fact, this record might actually make you kill people in horrifically violent ways, or be killed in a horrifically violent way, as the band’s fans often are on Metalocalypse. It’s that friggin’ good.

The album comes out September 29 on Williams Street, but our friends at Metal Insider are getting the party started early with a listening party here in NYC a week from today, Wednesday, September 23 at Fontana’s, the site of many an awesome metal party. This is your chance to get drunk, hear the record early, stalk Vince and myself, and throw yourselves at MI’s resident Quaker Jew, Bram Teitelman. Ladies, if you’re not a total cow and ask real nice, I’d wager Bram will sleep with you. Just putting that out there. He’s a very giving dude.

See ya there…

-AR

It’s past normal posting hours here at the MS Mansion, but as we were shuttering the gates for the day the Monkeys were going absolutely batshit so we went to go see what all the fuss was about… and apparently there’s a new Dethklok video that’s hit the web! The song is “Bloodlines,” and it’s on Dethklok’s new album Dethalbum II, available September 29th. Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em.

-VN

Speaking of our friends at Metal Injection: they found these groovy clips which collect all the metal-celeb guest appearances on Metalocalypse. In case ya don’t know, everyone from Hetfield and Hammett to Corpsegrinder to King Diamond has done voice work for the show… one of many reasons why it’s worth your time.

Here’s the clips from season 1; check out season 2 after the jump. And don’t forget that Dethklok have a new album coming out, to be immediately followed by a ridiculously awesome tour with Mastodon, Converge, and High on Fire.

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Comes out September 8 [UPDATE: release date is now Sept. 29. -Ed.] on Williams Street Records.

Suh-weet.

-AR

My favorite cartoon characters are Brent Hinds and the members of Dethklok. Seriously. I once watched Hinds do a belly-flop onto a bar table covered in beer mugs. He came out of a coma and is only sillier for the experience. You could drop an anvil on that dude’s head and all that would happen is he’d see little tweety-birds buzzing around his head. And then he’d write an awesome concept album about them.

So: in what strikes me as only semi-strange news, Mastodon and Dethklok will co-headline a tour this fall, with support coming from Converge and High on Fire. I am slightly miffed that the mighty High on Fire and absolutely God-like Converge are opening for a make believe band, but since it’s Dethklok, I’ll let it pass… this time.

Complete list of dates after the jump.

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Dethklok fans – here’s a fun lil’ press release we just received at the Mansion:

“Konami announced today that a video game based on the hit Adult Swim series Metalocalypse is currently in development for Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®Network. Created by series co-creator Brendon Small and based on the top-rated Adult Swim animated series, the upcoming Metalocalypse: Dethgame will immerse players into the world of Dethklok, the world’s most brutal Norwegian heavy metal band.”

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You know what I’d enjoy even more than a new Dethklok album? Some new Metalocalypse episodes. When the frick is that show coming back?

While we all hold our breath and wait, here’s the cover for Dethklok’s The Dethalbum II, which comes out September 8 on Williams Street Records. Unfortunately the copy that was sent to us is teeny tiny. Hopefully we’ll get a better look soon.

And in case you’re wondering – yes, there is a “Murmaider II” on the record. Better than “Unforgiven IV,” I guess.

-AR

No, you’re not seeing things – those are Murderface socks. For when you feel like your feet just aren’t metal enough.

According to Topless Robot, the socks are part of Adult Swim’s new, “shockingly understated” clothing line, called – ahem – The Finer Things. And they’ll run you about $15. Which seems like too much to pay for Murderface socks, but, hey, I’ve certainly done dumber things with my money.

You can order yourself a pair here.

-AR

There’s gonna be an animated feature film version The Goon coming out later this year, which was produced by David Fincher (who directed Se7en, Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Boring, the videos for Nine Inch Nails’ “Only” and A Perfect Circle’s “Judith,” etc.). I guess in an early bid to get some hype going, Dark Horse Comics will be publishing a series in which The Goon takes on… Dethklok. Hm.

MTV (ugh!) has the first promo video for the comic; check it out below.

-AR

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Well well well, Rob over at Metal Injection made a very interesting discovery over the weekend:

“I was stumbling through the city this weekend, and while in midtown I looked up and saw a ginormous DETHKLOK ad right in the middle of the city. It was so brutal, I had to stop and take a photo and be mistaken for a tourist [Said tourist photo to your right - Ed.]. Then, I turned on [adult swim] earlier and they were advertising that the show returns next Sunday, May 18th! Fuck. Yes!”

These will be the first new episodes of 2008. Think about that: there haven’t been new episodes of Metalocalypse in almost six months. Who the fuck do Tommy Blacha and Brendon Small think they are, the showrunners for fuckin’ Lost or something?

Oh, well. Look at this way: unlike Lost, when Metalocalypse returns, at least there’ll be some payoff.

-AR

Well, this is a friggin’ weird, but totally awesome, line-up: cartoon band Dethklok will do their first headlining tour this summer, with support from MetalSucks faves Chimaira and Soilent Green. This is the first chance that most of us will get to check out Dethklok live, since their last tour was exclusively on college campuses. Plus, Chimaira and Soilent Green absolutely kill live. Tour dates after the jump.

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Another good tip for the toy obsessed…

MetalSucks reader Elijah Torn has alerted us to the announcement that Kidrobot are offering a whole series of minifigures based on Adult Swim characters – including Murderface and Toki from Metalocalypse.

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Congratulations to John R. Forrester, the winner of our Dethklok contest; John gets to take home a sweet grab bag of Dethklok / Adult Swim merch. We asked our readers to tell us who was their favorite member of Dethklok and why, and though John — who is a member of the 160th Signal Brigade, stationed in Kuwait — failed to actually answer the question his answer was so kickass that we had to name him the winner anyway:

I am entering for me and my friend who is the smallest biggest fan of dethklok in the army lol…. This guy always watches dethklok I mean that’s what we do at work… watch dethklok and it never gets old….once and a while you hearing the incoming mortar alarms going off and we all hit the bunker…while its still playing.. Once a mortar landed 20 ft from our tent, while the show is playing, right after the mortar hit what was said in perfect timing? That’s Brutal!!!!! Hahahah it was like the funniest thing ever we almost played catch with a mortar and then Nathan says that’s brutal I was about to say it but he beat me to it….we were laughin at that for days…. And not to mention we warm up on guitar hero with thunderhorse! I don’t think we can ever get timing like that again… DETHKLOK strikes again!

Wow. I’m not quite sure whether to be upset that my tax dollars are paying for this guy to watch cartoons at “work” or to be excited that my tax dollars are paying for this guy to watch cartoons at work. At least our idiotic government allows such an awesome ocurrence to take place instead of fighting a stupid war and killing innocent civilians. But regardless… you gotta hand it to the guy… playing catch with a fucking mortar while watching Metalocalypse?? That IS fucking brutal!! Congrats, John.

-VN

Alas, those of you planning to see Dethklok on their current tour will have to wait just a little bit longer to see William Murderface live and in the flesh on the screen. But the guy actually playing the bass, Bryan Beller, has just released a video clip detailing how he plays some of the Dethklok material (no pick! = metal).

-VN

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Uncle Axl and Vince (and cousin Kip) have done it for you again: we’ve got an incredible contest where you can win a sweet lot of merch from everyone’s favorite cartoon heavy metal band, Dethklok. One winner will receive an Adult Swim Prize Pack containing:

• Metalocalypse Season 1 DVD (20 episodes!)
• Dethklok Dethalbum CD
• Guitar Hero T-Shirt
• Adult Swim T-Shirt
• Adult Swim Notebook
• Adult Swim Postcards
• Metalocalypse Buttons

“How do we win, Uncle Vince?” I hear you asking. It’s easy: just email vince [at] metalsucks.net with DETHKLOK CONTEST in the subject line, and answer the following question:

“Who is your favorite Dethklok member and why?”

Be creative; your answers can be heartfelt, sarcastic, sick, whatever the fuck you want — just make sure they’re good. Axl and I will sort through your answers and pick our favorite. May the best one win.

As you all know, Dethklok will be touring this fall with …Trail of Dead. Click through for tour dates and information about how to get tickets.

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