Dethklok - The Dethalbum (2007)

     Somewhere deep within the virtual world of ironically self loathing death metal bands, your favorite nighttime TV show characters of Dethklok pull their shit together long enough to gift your meaningless lives with their explosive debut album The Dethalbum (no pun intended). What's cool about this album is that it's essentially a musical walk through of your favorite episodes from season one of Adult Swim's comedic parody cartoon show Metalocalypse. But instead of musical snippets abruptly ended with multiple macabre fan deaths, you're treated to extended full length versions of the songs from the TV series, including a couple of bonus/unreleased tracts.
     As any album worth listening to in the death metal community, sprinkled with tiny bits of hatred and controversy towards whether or not Dethklok should even be considered real metal or not, The Dethalbum is a mixture of melodic death metal and repetitive chugging. If you're able to look beyond the initial satire that is the entire essence of Dethklok's being, what you're left with is a band that is able to reach it's audience with what could be considered a type of visual audio that is it's music. Even if you've never seen an episode of Metalocalypse, listening to songs like "Bloodrocuted" or "Briefcase Full of Guts" leave an extremely purposeful aesthetic that is sure to melt the heart of any hardened death metal fan, as long as they aren't too hardened to enjoy a bit of self deprecating humor every now and again.