Dethklok To Bring Ani-Metal to Universities

Remember a few years ago when Gorillaz embarked on that tour where they couldn’t show their faces because that would ruin their whole image-is-bullshit aesthetic? They pulled a giant, partially translucent screen across the stage and played behind it, while their cartoon counterparts galloped and mean-mugged and did whatever else their 2-D selves could. It turned out to be an interesting experiment with regard to what lengths concert-goers would reach to “see” live music.


Well, now we have Dethklok, who by all accounts could virtua-chop the heads off of every member of Gorillaz without breaking a blast beat. The biggest animated metal band of all time (Metalocalypse airs on Sundays on Adult Swim at 11:45 PM PST) will be co-headlining a tour of American universities with …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, beginning October 29th in New Mexico, and ending November 18th in Chicago. Trail of Dead kind of gets on some fantasy shit anyway, given the right breeze, so it’s shaping up to be a good match-up. I’m growing a handlebar mustache in anticipation…