Adult Swim’s rowdy Rock n’ Roll adventure series, Metalocalypse, is back with a vengeance in Metalopocalypse: Army of the Doomstar, an all-new, feature-length animated movie arriving on Digital and Blu-ray on August 22, 2023.
To accompany this highly-anticipated release, Dethklok’s original companion album, Dethalbum IV, is also destined to strike that same day from WaterTower Music with its sizzling single titled Aortic Desecration. A second soundtrack album, Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar, includes more kickass material taken from the movie and drops on August 25.
Written and directed by series co-creator Brendon Small, Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar rounds up the riotous heavy metal band once again for a wild, action-oriented odyssey to rescue our world from insensate evil. Conceived by Small and Tommy Blancha, Metalocalypse first debuted on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim way back in 2006, rolling out with 62 episodes over four seasons and one standalone special, Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem.
Check out the official synopsis:
“After the heroic rescue of Toki Wartooth, Dethklok’s frontman Nathan Explosion finds himself traumatized in a brutal professional and romantic flat-spin all while he is tasked with fulfilling the prophecy and confronting the ultimate songwriting challenge: write the Song Of Salvation and save the planet. Can Nathan Explosion look beyond his brutally damaged ego to save his band, stop the Metalocalypse, and finally face the ultimate evil: Salacia?”
Besides Small and Blancha, Army of the Doomstar features Victor Brandt (Metalocalypse), Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner (Grammy Award-winning musician), King Diamond (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate), Mark Hamill (Batman: The Animated Series, The Machine), Kirk Hammett (Metallica), Jon Hamm (Confess, Top Gun: Maverick), Scott Ian (Anthrax), Amy Lee (Evanescence), Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), Juliet Mills (Passions), Laraine Newman (Saturday Night Live), Raya Yarbrough (Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem – a Klok Opera), and Livia Zita (Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Award).
This new full-length feature Metalocalypse was executive produced by Brendon Small, Chris Prynoski (The Legend of Vox Machina), Shannon Prynoski (Fairfax), Antonio Canobbio (Arlo the Alligator Boy) and Ben Kalina (Big Mouth).
In conjunction with Adult Swim, Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment and Titmouse, Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar lands on August 22, 2023 on all major Digital outlets and Blu-ray packed with the deep dive making-of featurette, Behind the Metal Curtain.
Check out the new trailer below:
