Brendon Small, who created the far more benign cartoon series “Home Movies” (also on Cartoon Network) is - with partner Tommy Blacha, who has written for “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” and “Da Ali G Show” - the mind behind “Metalocalypse” and behind its music as well, which is not so much a parody of the furious white noise of modern metal as it is a slight exaggeration. There is an element of wish fulfillment here. And it’s reliably funny to take something that has a relatively small constituency and pretend that it’s the most important thing in the world. When it records a coffee jingle, which it premieres in a one-song concert before a Woodstock-size audience in the Arctic Circle, it puts all competing coffee companies immediately out of business when it is late delivering an album, world markets totter.īarring a few old-school superstars such as Metallica and some younger mega-giant hybrid acts such as Korn and Linkin Park, metal in the early 21st century is a truly underground music, more vital and varied than the average salaryman might suspect but still essentially (and pointedly) marginal. “Metalocalypse,” premiering Sunday as part of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim franchise, is a new animated series about an American-Scandinavian heavy metal band called Dethklok that in addition to being the most popular musical group in the world is also one of its major economies and a cultural force powerful enough to make the leaders of ordinary nations quail and quiver.
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