Metalocalypse’s finale movie is a climax worth the wait

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For more than a decade now, Metalocalypse fans have been patiently waiting for a conclusion to the series. The animated dark comedy created by Brendon Small (Home Movies) and Tommy Blacha aired for four seasons on Adult Swim from 2006 to 2012, chronicling the exaggerated antics of Dethklok, the world’s biggest death-metal band. In each episode, rhythm guitarist Toki Wartooth, bass guitarist William “Murderface Murderface” Murderface, Pickles the drummer, lead guitarist Skwisgaar Skwigelf, and frontman vocalist Nathan Explosion deal with their worldwide musical dominance and the shadowy cabal trying to bring them down.

The show, if you didn’t already guess from the band members’ names, is an exercise in hyperbole, a cheeky love letter to the self-mythologizing bravado of death metal. Metalocalypse is bursting at the seams with gore, flying viscera, and wide-scale destruction, alongside celebrity cameos from some of the biggest musicians in the genre. The showgradually morphed from a dark comedy into a full-blown epic dark fantasy, complete with its own elaborate mythos involving an impending “Metalocalypse” that threatens to plunge the world into perpetual chaos and usher forth a new dark age of chthonic horrors.

Nearly a decade after the 2013 release of Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem, a one-hour rock opera intended to resolve the cliffhanger from the end of the show’s fourth season, Metalocalypse has finally returned with Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar, the series’ feature-length final chapter. This 72-minute movie sees the bandmates finally confronting their destinies as either the potential saviors of humanity or its destroyers. And damn, was it worth the wait.

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