The music, written by guitarist/creator Brendon Small, was credited to the band and featured in most episodes. The show was widely heralded as both a parody and a pastiche of heavy metal culture. The television program centers on the larger-than-life melodic death metal band Dethklok, and often portrays dark and macabre content, including such subjects as violence, death, and the drawbacks of fame, with hyperbolic black comedy.
Metalocalypse is an American adult animated television series, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, which premiered on August 6, 2006, followed by a musical one-hour special, Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem, on Octoon Adult Swim.
