I am now awake after staying up all night at the Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines watching a fake metal band play. There is a gigantic difference between watching a normal show and then a show based off a cartoon that airs for 15 minutes once a week.
What they did during the Dethklok show was play video to accompany the music that they were playing. We would watch an intro video about Tribunal having a plot to turn the fans into mutants in order to stop the cashflow going to Dethklok. Then throughout the night, we would touch on that story as we were getting other videos between songs. We also watched the important problems that plague all metal shows and how to cope with them from Facebones. After that, we took a look behind the scenes which showed what really goes on during Dethklok shows. This extra content was top notch and I was surprised that they put all this energy into the show. I thought I was going to go watch a fake metal band play songs and joke about it but I was dead wrong.
The other thing that impressed me was when they would play a song, they would accompany the shows music video with it, but with Murmaider and Thunderhorse, they completely redid some of the art just for the concert. Murmaider in particular was incredibly well done with naked mermaids killing lobstermen, it was completely insane from start to finish.
I didn’t have any beef other than the typical douches that would roll up to these shows. Some kids got into a fight, some threw shit up on stage, it varied but I found it very strange from my 27-year old perspective. I was expecting a 50/50 nerd/douche ratio, I got more of a 3/97. Which is really disappointing because the show was so well done. If I would have known they were going to put all this production into this show, I would of been more aggressive in getting people to go.
In conclusion, I have basically seen a 90-minute Metalocalypse episode that you haven’t seen and you never will see.
