![]() On July 18, Brendon Small confirmed on Twitter that the album has been finished. On June 8, Hoglan revealed on Twitter that he had finished recording the album. On May 24, Gene Hoglan announced on his Facebook that he has begun work with Brendon on the album. Again, it takes a long time to organize this stuff, but we’ve got a lot of songs from Season 3 and from all the music I’m writing for Season 4, there’s a lot of new stuff out there and some of it’s really pretty cool." When asked about the album, Small stated: "That’s what the hope is. With only a couple stand out tracks, Dethalbum III treads water and doesn't compare at all to the character or humor the first two albums had.Brendon Small revealed the album in an interview with Technorati: "There’s a lot of stuff coming this year–I think we’re getting close to Dethalbum III, and I think there’s going to be some cool stuff following that, so I think this is going to be a bigger Dethklok year." I even had to look up which episode most of these songs came from because I couldn't tell just from listening to them, and I'm a big fan of the show. It basically comes down to the fact that the tracks lack charisma and identity. ![]() The guitar work is more sophisticated than the first album sure, but that doesn't make them nearly as interesting as the three note track "Awakened" from the first album, or any other of the less musically complicated tracks the band is known for. Most of the rest of the tracks excluding "Impeach God" and "Biological Warfare" are completely forgettable and just run of the mill melodic death metal tunes. After "Crush The Industry" it's all down hill starting with "Andromeda" and "The Galaxy," two songs that are about the same thing (Andromeda is a galaxy duh) and then eight more tracks of varying quality ranging from good to pretty good I guess. It goes into "Crush The Industry," the only other fantastic song on the album, which has crushing trems and an impressive instrumental intro with no vocals coming in until around 1:30. ![]() From the Egyptian sounding intro to the fantastic guitar effect on the solos, "I Ejaculate Fire" is an incredible tune that sets the pace for the rest of the album which is quickly squandered. "I Ejaculate Fire" mistakes the listener into thinking this is going to be an interesting album, as it's the opener and one of the only really interesting songs. When I first started this record I was initially fooled. I certainly don't remember an episode where God was impeached or someone ejaculated fire from seasons three and four, and that's the real problem with this record, the songs have no identity and tie in little with the show which inevitable just makes the album a pretty good melodic death metal release and nothing more. Remember when you could tell what episode a Dethklok song came from by listening to it, or even just from the song title? That was pretty cool, I remember tracks like "Birthday Dethday" which brought up images from the Murderface birthday episode, and "The Gears" which was about the episode where they brought in new workers. ![]() Here we are in 2012 and the third Dethalbum is finally here and it is major disappointment. When The Dethalbum came out in 2006 fans were jumping for joy that they could now laugh along to their favorite show in audio form, and in 2009 fans were pleasantly surprised to find that Dethalbum II greatly expanded on the band's sound musically and sounded like a real album. Three years and two seasons of Metalocalypse have passed since the release of Dethalbum II and expectations could not have been higher. Review Summary: So what do you get when a comedy metal band makes an album that isn't funny? A boring and generic melodic death metal album, that's what.
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