[atlantaprog] Dethklok

My 19 y/o death-metal-fan son dragged me out to this show last night. For the uninitiated, Dethklok is the fictious band from the Cartoon Network's show Metalocalypse. They did a *free* hour long show for a limited audience (first 450 people) last night. The *real* musicians, incl. singer/composer/co-creator Brendan Small and guitarist Mike Keneally, perfomed live mostly in the shadows while their animated doppelgangers performed onscreen. It was hilarious! Spinal Tap for the death metal crowd. I daresay all those guys bashing into each other in the pit had no clue about the irony! I doubt I would have appreciated the music had I simply heard it on CD, but to see the insane video animations, incl. some of the more hard-to-decipher lyrics, cast the whole spectacle in a new light for me. And the Small/ Keneally twin-guitar work was really cut above most music of that genre.

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