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Fast yet dense, lofty yet primal, the track walks that perfect line on which the five horsemen forever follow: where the cosmic meets the tangible and the bottomless depths of the soul meet the flimsy, blood-filled sack that is your corpse-to-be.

So brace yourself: Here are our picks for the 25 greatest Dethklok songs of all time.Īt the end of the day, 'Bloodlines' is unquestionably Dethklok's greatest musical achievement. Every Dethklok track is a morbid testament to face-smashingly awesome death metal, but some are just more brutal than others. Each one is a tombstone, complete with its own unique shape, engraving and maggot-filled cadaver beneath it.ĭethklok have released four full-length albums - from 2007's jaw-dropping debut The Dethalbum to the new Dethalbum IV - and each crushing opus in their catalog boasts its own gruesome merits. Simply put, these songs aren't interchangeable.

AWAKEN DETHKLOK SERIES

The cartoon band (lead in real life by series co-creator and musician Brendon Small) have always blown the minds of the public (often literally) as they continue to unlock new levels of sonic violence. Their passionate followers gleefully sign pain waivers absolving the group from any catastrophic disaster that might occur during their shows: from immolation and polar bear attack to exsanguination and so much more. The band -vocalist Nathan Explosion, guitarists Skwisgaar Skwigelf and Toki Wartooth, bassist William Murderface and Pickles the Drummer - are so universally beloved and talented that they've become a government-swaying superpower (and the seventh-largest economy in the world), and heaps of bloody carnage await anyone who crosses their path.Īs witnessed throughout the four seasons of Adult Swim's animated series - and the new feature-length film, Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar - Dethklok's fanbase is intense. In the Metalocalypse universe, this cursed death-metal outfit reigns supreme. Ranking the songs of Dethklok is an intimidating job. This content is copyrighted by either Adult Swim, Williams Street Records, or BS Records.Order Revolver's new Dethklok collector's issue, limited-edition vinyl variants of all their albums, and official band shirts in exclusive colorways at our shop. The following song lyrics is a direct quote, copied verbatim, from Metalocalypse, a Dethklok song, or from album linear notes. Dethklok have previously had their songs used in the Batmetal series. The song was also used in an animated short on YouTube called Batmetal Forever.

It simply shows the band playing as well as Mustakrakish being summoned through various shots, as well as the spellbook the lyrics were taken from. As the band played the song, Mustakrakish was awakened due to the lyrics being taken from an ancient Finnish book of spells.Ī music video was made for (the touring band) to use during live performances. They traveled to Finland to apologize for a past incident, but unable to finish their speech, Nathan decided to have the band play the song anyway. 'Awaken' was written by the band for a new Finnish national anthem. However, due to the death of Mustakrakish, the spell is no longer active and is useless thus, the song could be played without danger of Mustakrakish wreaking havoc.

The spell that was used for the lyrics, when said, awakened the lake troll Mustakrakish, who would then proceed to wreak havoc. 'Awaken' is quite possibly the only Dethklok song with lyrics not written by Nathan Explosion (although in real life, it was actually written by Brendon Small, as with every song in the show).

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