#SDCC: Metalocalypse’s Murderous Multimedia Mayhem
Those of us who would Do Anything for Dethklok will now have many more opportunities to share the love. (Why, yes, I do have a cartoon crush on Nathan Explosion. He can “teach me who rock” anytime.) The creators of the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse are preparing an assault on several platforms.
If you’ve actually bothered to read the Adult Swim bumps instead of fast-forwarding past them on your DVR, you already know that in Season 3, episodes of Metalocalypse will double in length to 30 minutes, and the second Dethklok album is scheduled for this fall.
On Wednesday, Konami announced that they’ll be putting out the downloadable videogame Metalocalypse: Dethgame, which will be available for Xbox and PlayStation. The soundtrack will feature tracks from both the old and the new Dethklok albums. Game creators are promising a thrilling and an exceptionally gory time as the player takes on the role of a Klokateer, one of the band’s many masked minions. Here’s hoping that they will be able to fulfill that promise: a very early version of the game is currently being showcased at San Diego, and one IGN reviewer is already profoundly unimpressed. Apparently, gameplay now mainly consists of urinating on, brutally beating, and slicing up Dethklok fans. Hey, that may be enough for some people.
Also on Wednesday, the one-shot The Goon vs. Dethklok hit comic book store shelves. That was quickly followed by Thursday’s announcement from Dark Horse that a Metalocalypse comic book series is in the works. The Dark Horse San Diego Comic-Con panel takes place later today, and no doubt more details will be released at that time.
