Why Now Is The Time To Bring Back Metalocalypse

As 2019 becomes 2020, the world feels gripped by an oppressive force of normality and stupidity. Politicians are greasier and more racist than ever, suicide rates and drug addiction are up, the future of Mother Earth herself hangs in the balance. The turn of the decade is a complicated era that makes us question if any of the past twenty years of progress ever really changed anything. In times like these, all we can really hope for is that a door gets kicked in, and a death metal band walks in and blows everyone away with a deluge of crushing riffs like some goddamn supernatural music video. Life is a minefield, but with a killer metal song playing in the background, at least you’ll die grinning. This was the basic premise behind Brendon Small’s animated TV show Metalocalypse: that the kno...

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