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21 minutes }} | creator = Brendon Small Tommy Blacha | voices = Brendon Small Tommy Blacha Mark Hamill Victor Brandt Malcolm McDowell | executive_producer = Brendon Small Tommy Blacha Keith Crofford Nick Weidenfeld | producer = Keith Fay Shannon Barrett Prynoski | director = Jon Schnepp 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Director and Animator Jon Schnepp )〕 Chris Prynoski Mark Brooks | theme_music_composer = As Dethklok: | opentheme = "Deththeme" by Dethklok | country = United States | language = English | company = Titmouse, Inc. Williams Street | network = Adult Swim | picture_format = 4:3 SDTV 16:9 HDTV | first_aired = | last_aired = (hiatus) | num_seasons = 4 | num_episodes = 61 (and 1 special) | list_episodes = List of Metalocalypse episodes | followed_by = ''Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem'' | website = http://www.adultswim.com/videos/metalocalypse/ }} ''Metalocalypse'' is an American animated television series, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, which premiered on August 6, 2006 on Adult Swim. The television program centers on the larger than life death metal band Dethklok, and often portrays dark and macabre content, including such subjects as violence, death, and the drawbacks of fame, with extremely hyperbolic black comedy. The show can be seen as both a parody and celebration of heavy metal culture. The music, written by guitarist/creator Brendon Small, is credited to the band, and is featured in most of the episodes. The animation is often carefully synced to the music, with the chord positions and fingering of the guitar parts shown in some detail. One of the quirks of the show is having the usual "bleeps" for extreme profanity replaced by pinch harmonics. A one-hour special entitled ''Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem'' was released on October 27, 2013. In October 2015, Brendon Small announced a month-long social media campaign entitled "Metalocalypse Now" as an attempt to gather fan support to have Hulu and Adult Swim co-finance the final season of ''Metalocalypse''. ==Overview== In the series, Dethklok is a death metal band which enjoys a popularity level unheard of in reality, ranking as the seventh largest economy on Earth by the end of the second season. (Series creator Small described them as "like the Beatles, just a thousand times more dangerous and a billion times more stupid".) The fictional band members are Nathan Explosion, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, Pickles, William Murderface and Toki Wartooth. Their manager is Charles Foster Offdensen. If Dethklok endorses a product or service, competitors are quickly driven out of business. Organizations worldwide, ranging from governments to businesses, go out of their way to avoid hindering Dethklok, to the point that the band is allowed to maintain its own police force and can get away with any crime imaginable with virtually no repercussions, although the band is often too ignorant to even notice that they are committing illegal acts. The members of Dethklok tend to cause disaster wherever they travel, and anything remotely associated with them likewise attracts chaos. Dethklok concerts are so notoriously dangerous that those attending are required to sign "pain waivers" at the entrance, releasing the band from legal liability in the very likely case attendees are killed or maimed. The band is shown to have a callous disregard for their fans' safety, as shown in the first episode where they pour scalding hot coffee over concertgoers. The band's popularity is such that impressionable fans will do anything for them, even if that means death, which is usually the case. In the episode "Dethgov", fans of Dethklok lynch the governor of Florida after he refuses to establish a holiday for lead singer Nathan Explosion (to be named "Nathan Explosion Day"), whom they then proceed to elect governor in a landslide write-in victory. The band's unnatural popularity and trail of destruction has attracted the attention of an Illuminati-style group, known as The Tribunal, dedicated to monitoring Dethklok's activity and plans. Typically, episodes involve the Tribunal attempting to maintain and perpetuate public ignorance and rampant consumerism whenever Dethklok's antics inadvertently threaten to upset the status quo. The Tribunal, led by a mysterious character named "Mr. Salacia", works off the premise that Dethklok's unusual powers are the result of an ancient Sumerian prophecy about an "Apocalypse of Metal". General Crozier, the military leader in the group, appears to desire either the death of the band's members or the dismantlement of the band itself, but Mr. Salacia consistently overrules him to prevent this from happening. Most episodes show the Tribunal attempting to covertly thwart the band by calling in various "specialists", such as "military pharmaceutical psychotropic drug manufacturers", "celebrity depression experts", or various legally compromised characters who attempt to infiltrate the group. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metalocalypse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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