![]() ![]() The song is more of a mystical, world-building piece. Plus, I like the word ‘horse.’ It’s the funniest word in the world to me. I just feel like they need to be in song titles. “Horses somehow keep creeping up in this world, and I don’t know why. It’s like when Randy Newman tells a story from a character’s point of view. It’s one of the weirdest songs in the world, but, like ‘Bloodbath,’ it’s Nathan Explosion taking on a character. There’re lines like ‘Where are you taking me this time?’ and stuff about mites in ears. I don’t know that anybody would ever know that unless I said so. It’s very brutal, but it’s from the point of view of a dog. “This is the most ridiculous song on the record. They both have really good senses of humor, fortunately.” My mother-in-law always says, ‘How come you don’t write a song about my daughter?’ So, I did. It starts out with a chorus of a million women screaming in pain, and then, ‘Why can’t I make up my mind? Is this your knife in my back? Why is my mood swinging around like an executioner swings an axe?’ It’s a warning-stay the fuck away from me. This is a song about experiencing PMS from Nathan Explosion’s point of view. “I’ve been married for 10 years now, and one of the things I’ve been privy to is the rage of PMS. Lyrically, it’s about the return of Dethklok and getting out of the pandemic at the same time, getting back into society and destroying it on a Saturday night, playing mailbox baseball with sledgehammers and then going to a party you’re not invited to and fucking the whole thing up.” ![]() So, there’s a little bit of that on a shorter time frame here. The great thing about Metallica is that they start simple, but they keep building and mutating their riffs. “This started as an ode to Metallica, but then it kept shape-shifting because I wanted to make it less Metallica-esque. Putridity, vile, verminous-that was the kind of feeling I was trying to evoke.” It’s like a thunderstorm just comes over your house. ![]() The rest of the night, the poles were exploding, which is a lyric from the song. “At some point, when I was developing Metalocalypse with Tommy Blacha, the co-creator, he turned to me and said, ‘You look green, like one of those medieval paintings where someone’s dead.’ I was sweating and gross. It’s also asking, ‘How could I have been so stupid to leave myself open and get hurt?’ It’s an angry heavy metal tantrum about the ego.” It’s a heavy metal tantrum where the wound is inflicted by the self, by your own heart. What if Cannibal Corpse wrote a song about heartbreak? That’s the idea. “‘Aortic’ meaning the heart, ‘desecration’ meaning broken or destroyed: heartbreak. My studio smelled like gasoline for a week and a half.” I’m the guy you call if you need a song about having your guts liquified by a weed wacker.’ That meant I needed a weed wacker in the song somewhere, so I went to Home Depot and rented one. It’s when Nathan Explosion is saying, ‘I’m not a guy that can write a song of salvation. There’s one line from the movie that really connects this to the project. “This is kind of a miniature horror film. “So, what am I going to do? Make something more radio-friendly or something more intense and brutal? I kind of felt like the project was telling me it needed to be heavier than everything we’ve done before.” Below, he details each song. “It’s been a long time since I’ve done the Dethklok thing, and part of me thinks the metal community’s eyes will be on this,” Small tells Apple Music. ![]() In the real world, all Dethklok songs are written and performed by Metalocalypse co-creator Brendon Small, who again enlisted heavy metal legend Gene Hoglan (Dark Angel, Testament, Death) to play drums. Dethalbum IV sees vocalist Nathan Explosion, guitarists Toki Wartooth and Skwisgaar Skwigelf, bassist William Murderface, and drummer Pickles carving off tales of weed-wacker disembowelment (“Gardener of Vengeance”), food poisoning (“Poisoned by Food”), and PMS (“Bloodbath”) while scoring key moments in their new Metalocalypse movie, Army of the Doomstar. After a 10-year hiatus, animated death-metal band Dethklok has returned to crush skulls and ejaculate fire. ![]()
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