I'm about to dump some serious metal knowledge on you. Metalocalypse, as you know, is primarily a comedic show. But the show's creator Brendon Smalls is a seriously talented metal musician (all the show's music is written and recorded by him by the way) and so it's also a palpable tribute to the history of metal and it's many genres. Thus the members of Dethklok are based on actual metal(/rock) musicians:
It might please you to know that the vocalist of Cannibal Corpse, George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher is the basis for the design of Nathan Explosion. Pickles is based on Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses, Skwisgaar is based mostly on Yngwie Malmsteen, and Toki (my favorite) is based on Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth.
As for suggestions, I started in metal with melodic death metal, specifically the music started in Gothenburg, Sweden. In Flames, Dark Tranquility, and At The Gates started the genre, along with the younger 4th band Soilwork. Which is bar none my favorite band to this day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... In Flames - Dead End; literally the first heavier metal song I ever heard that started it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Soilwork - Long Live The Misanthrope; a more recent Soilwork song, but happens to be my favorite of theirs.
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I'm about to dump some serious metal knowledge on you. Metalocalypse, as you know, is primarily a comedic show. But the show's creator Brendon Smalls is a seriously talented metal musician (all the show's music is written and recorded by him by the way) and so it's also a palpable tribute to the history of metal and it's many genres. Thus the members of Dethklok are based on actual metal(/rock) musicians: It might please you to know that the vocalist of Cannibal Corpse, George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher is the basis for the design of Nathan Explosion. Pickles is based on Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses, Skwisgaar is based mostly on Yngwie Malmsteen, and Toki (my favorite) is based on Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth. As for suggestions, I started in metal with melodic death metal, specifically the music started in Gothenburg, Sweden. In Flames, Dark Tranquility, and At The Gates started the genre, along with the younger 4th band Soilwork. Which is bar none my favorite band to this day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... In Flames - Dead End; literally the first heavier metal song I ever heard that started it all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Soilwork - Long Live The Misanthrope; a more recent Soilwork song, but happens to be my favorite of theirs.