It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

I'm a Johnny-come-lately to this perfectly weird but truly addictive toon for grown ups and now I'm a total fan. The story revolves around the metal band Dethklok, five badass but hilariously stupid dudes who live in Mordland, a fictional place set amongst our non fictional world. The band is listed as the twelfth largest grossing corporation on the planet (or some such thing) which puts them square in the cross-hairs of an equally weird but completely deranged group of world leaders who meet in secret to discuss ways to infiltrate the band's realm. What makes it darkly funny is that the guys themselves are oblivious to the nefarious baddies and their evil plan, yet somehow they're able to overcome whatever attempt is made on them by said bad guys while still remaining blissfully clueless. The dialogue is often coarse and many of the situations Dethklok gets themselves into might offend the very sensitive at heart but this animated series in not for the faint of heart. It's funny, wry, dark and unique. I'd like to mention that the tunes completely rock, melding a heavy driving sound with some bizarro and often comical lyrics. With names like Nathan Explosion (the lead singer whose parents are, in fact, Mr. and Mrs. Explosion, which cracks me up), William Murderface (the foul-mouthed, lisping bass guitarist), Pickles (the pickled drummer with the seriously bad corn-rowed 'do), Skwisgaar (the Swedish lead guitarist who'll boff ANY woman, no matter how old she is) and Toki (the sweetly dense rhythm guitarist who forever lives in Skwisgaar's shadow). I hope there's going to be many more seasons to come because this animated show is better than the usual offerings out there. Keep 'em coming!

Being Swedish and a former heavy metal guitarist, this is too funny! It's about time someone wrote this story. I've met a lot of metal people with delusions of grandour, so it's pretty accurate. A metal band with a mix of Americans and Scandinavians is right on the money. Again as a Swede I totally laugh at the wrong accents of the Scandinavian dudes, they sound so German/Polish - too funny! This animated series is great, there is the brotherhood of the band, but also the forces they are up against. Total corruption is par for the course; all players of the game are more or less scummy. Our heroes stumble through it all just by being stupid, and I loves its!

I really did want this to be a good show. I really wanted some metal based hilarity coming thick and fast for half an hour slots but it just wasn't to be.I have been a metal fan for a good while now, more so a fan of the more extreme sub-genres i.e. Death and Black metal. I can safely say that I went in to watching this show with high hopes. I love extreme metal and I love comedy and I am more than willing to mix the two as I enjoy a good laugh about the things that mean a lot to me. So don't take this review as me slagging this off because I was upset and offended that they had dared to poke fun at my favourite genre of music.Metalocalypse is just not a good show. It's crude, it's dumb but it's just not funny.Perhaps I was hoping for a Spinal Tap-esquire spoof which would offer similar ridiculous but still plausible and laughable representations but instead I got predictable, dull and formulaic jokes that were pretty easy to digest but pretty boring to behold. This series runs out of steam very quickly as you realise that the only metal "jokes" are just countless metal stereotypes either being flipped on their head or shoved down your throat. Sure it would be silly to have a death metal band to shout out "RELEASE THE KITTIES" whilst live on stage but its not really anything new. If you ever have had a conversation about metal with anyone who knows about it you have probably come up which much funnier metal based anecdotes than that. And random attempts to incorporate actual band names into scenes just to get are laugh are just lame.And this I feel is what the underlining problem with the whole show is. It's not doing anything that a metal fan couldn't think of by themselves. And I personally feel that it's only popular because its the only comedy based on this premise out there right now, I mean lets face it its not hard to be best metal based comedy show when you are the only one. This is a show that is dull at it's best and awful at it's worst.For a show that centres itself around death metal, a genre I find to have a great sense of humour about itself and the world in general I just don't understand how and why this show went so wrong. It's just uninspired shite to be honest.

I watched the first episode with skepticism. After seeing other adult swim projects flounder and become unwatchable relatively fast ( minoriteam, squidbillies, etc.) I honestly thought this would be another dud. Nothing could be further from the truth. This show is friggin hysterical, dark and cool as hell. Now, I will admit some of the episodes are a tad bit disturbing in terms of gore and brutality but the visual hyperbole that comes with every episode isn't meant to offend the people who watch, but instead is meant to add to the mythology and folklore surrounding the most brutal metal band in the history of existence. The most constant theme of the show is that metal is dark and brutal and therefore disturbing imagery is a must. I for one am not offended and find the darkness of the episodes appropriate. Having seen every episode sevenfold, I will say that this show has rekindled my prior love of metal while simeltaneously making me laugh my ass off at the bands antics. My personal favorite episodes are the last 4 on cd 2 of the DVD's- Dethclown, Girlfriendklok, Dethstars and it has begun...- All embody the darkness and comedy that comprise this show. [ Also see snakes and barrels and bluesklok] Look, to be frank, some people will toss their cookies after watching this show. However, I think the vast majority of people who watch will find this show disturbingly amusing and will become addicted after a relatively short time.