Scripted series · Adult Swim
Metalocalypse
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Mark Hamill
Senator Stampingston / Mr. Selatcia (voice)
62 eps
Victor Brandt
General Crozier / Cardinal Ravenwood (voice)
62 eps
Malcolm McDowell
Vater Orlaag (voice)
42 eps
Brendon Small
Skwisgaar Skwigelf / Pickles the Drummer / Nathan Explosion
62 eps
Tommy Blacha
Toki Wartooth / William Murderface (voice)
62 eps
Mike Patton
2 eps
Brian Posehn
1 eps
Gene Hoglan
1 eps
James Hetfield
Fan #1 (voice)
4 eps
Kirk Hammett
Queen of Denmark (voice)
3 eps
Jon Schnepp
Additional Voices (voice)
3 eps
Jeff Loomis
Mr. Murderface (voice)
1 eps
Warrel Dane
Sammy Twinskins (voice)
1 eps
Steve Smyth
Snizzy Bullets (voice)
1 eps
King Diamond
Employee 421 (voice)
4 eps
George Fisher
Metal Masked Assassin (voice)
6 eps
Laura Silverman
Valerie Vransinn / Grishnack's Assistant (voice)
2 eps
Andy Richter
J.F. Amarth (voice)
1 eps
Mike Keneally
Doctor (voice)
1 eps
Laraine Newman
News Anchor / Woman (voice)
9 eps
Silenoz
Prison Inmate (voice)
3 eps
Devin Townsend
Additional Voices (voice)
2 eps
ICS Vortex
Yaneemango Indian (voice)
2 eps
Frankie Ingrassia
Rachel / Sucubboso Explosionite (voice)
1 eps
Angela Gossow
Lavona Sucubboso (voice)
3 eps
Slash
1 eps
Dave Grohl
1 eps
Werner Herzog
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Metalocalypse actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Metalocalypse reads strongest on Humour, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Part-American, part-Scandinavian death-metal band Dethklok has a lingering effect on its fans, who take the words seriously and do anything Dethklok lyrics say. The government fears the band's influence and sets out to destroy it by covert means; for example, by sending military pharmaceutical psychotropic drug manufacturers. Deemed sociopaths for tossing hot coffee at their concert attendees, two of the band members are alcoholics, and they all have self-esteem issues.
The run
Seasons
4 seasons · 62 episodes.
Season 0 · Unannounced
Specials
82 episodes
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
200620 episodes
7.2IMDbThe first season of the animated show Metalocalypse originally aired on Adult Swim from August 6, 2006 to December 17, 2006 with 20 episodes. The show follows virtual death metal band Dethklok. The majority of the music featured this season was released on the 2007 album, The Dethalbum.
Best episode · S01E03 Birthdayface
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
200720 episodes
7.1IMDbThe second season of the animated show Metalocalypse originally aired on Adult Swim from September 23, 2007 to September 7, 2008 with 19 episodes. The show follows virtual death metal band Dethklok. The majority of the music featured this season was released on the 2009 album Dethalbum II. The first episode of this season, "Dethecution" was released as part of the deluxe edition of The Dethalbum. This season featured the new re-recorded version of the "Deththeme", released as a hidden track on The Dethalbum.
Best episode · S02E14 Dethsources
Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
200910 episodes
6.6IMDbThe third season of the animated show Metalocalypse originally aired on Adult Swim from November 8, 2009 to October 24, 2010 with 10 episodes. The show follows virtual death metal band Dethklok. This season featured a 21 minute runtime.
Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
201212 episodes
7.2IMDbThe fourth season of the animated show Metalocalypse originally aired on Adult Swim from April 29, 2012 to July 15, 2012 with 12 episodes. The show follows virtual death metal band Dethklok. This season returned to the original 11-minute long episode format. The season four DVD/Blu-ray was released on October 30, 2012 through Adult Swim/Warner Home Video.
Best episode · S04E01 Fanklok
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
The Curse of Dethklok
Dethklok hires the world's only six-star chef to cook dinner for them before a show in Norway. They warn him of the Dethklok curse, where every employee they've hired, chefs included, has tragically died. Later, when their new chef is at near-death on life support following an unfortunate helicoptor mishap, the band is forced to make its own meals.
- Directed by Jon Schnepp
- Written by Tommy Blacha, Brendon Small
S01E02
Dethwater
Dethklok frontman Nathan Explosion wants the band's next album to be the ultimate smash hit. So, to achieve this goal, he decides to have a recording session locked in a Russian nuclear submarine that is moving through the Mariana Trench - the deepest, darkest location in the Earth's crust itself. How brutal is that?!
- Directed by Jon Schnepp
- Written by Tommy Blacha, Brendon Small
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E82
The Doomstar Requiem: A Klok Opera
S04E12
Church of the Black Klok
- Directed by Brendon Small
- Written by Brendon Small
S04E09
Going Downklok
- Directed by Mark Brooks
- Written by Dani Vetere, Brendon Small
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
Brendon Small
Showrunner
Tommy Blacha
Executive producer
Keith Crofford
Executive producer
- Photo unavailable
Matthew Libman
Writer
- Photo unavailable
Bill Braudis
Writer
Mark Brooks
Writer
Brian Posehn
Writer
- Photo unavailable
Dani Vetere
Writer
- Photo unavailable
Mark Rivers
Writer
Janine Ditullio
Writer
Kristofor Brown
Writer
- Photo unavailable
Daniel Libman
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Tommy BlachaExecutive Producer
- Keith CroffordExecutive Producer
- Brendon SmallProducer
Writing
- Matthew LibmanWriter
- Bill BraudisWriter
- Mark BrooksWriter
- Brian PosehnWriter
- Dani VetereWriter
- Mark RiversWriter
Direction
- Mark BrooksDirector
- Mike RoushDirector
- Jon SchneppDirector
- Felipe SalazarDirector
- Tommy BlachaDirector
- Brendon SmallDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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