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Every Single “Metalocalypse” Episode is Streaming Free on Adult Swim!
Move over Metallica, Dethklok has taken over the world…
Adult Swim is helping us get through these tough times by making every single episode of “Metalocalypse” available for FREE on adultswim.com. As well as all four seasons, they’ve also made the Klok Opera movie available to stream.
The animated television program centered on the larger-than-life melodic death metal band Dethklok and their fictional band members Nathan Explosion, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, Pickles, William Murderface and Toki Wartooth. (Wiki)
The series was created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, and it premiered on August 6, 2006, and concluded with a one-hour special, “Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem”, on October 27, 2013. As Wiki notes, the music, written by guitarist/creator Brendon Small, was credited to the band and featured in most episodes.
“Metalocalypse” imagines a world in which Dethklok is the biggest band on the planet – so popular in fact that they control the rise and fall of the economy. The show is nothing short of brutal, leaving blood and guts splattered across the screen as the band sings about their favorite products, including Duncan Hills Coffee…
All episodes of Metalocalypse are now free on our app and site.
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“I’m the Grim Reaper” – Sam Raimi Teams with ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Writers on Gory, Funny Webtoon Adaptation
The Wattpad/Webtoons and Grave Weaver-created series “I’m the Grim Reaper” is nearing its 200th episode, and it’s also getting a new TV series adaptation with talented names behind it. Deadline reports that celebrated filmmaker Sam Raimi is teaming up with 10 Cloverfield Lane scribes Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken on the new series.
The series follows “Scarlet, a young woman who wakes up in the ninth circle of hell with no idea how she got there. Satan offers to send Scarlet back to Earth if she’ll work as his reaper. But it doesn’t take long for Scarlet to realize that Satan’s offer is even worse than she feared.”
The story is said to fit perfectly into “Raimi’s wheelhouse, striking a deft balance between scares, gore and humor.”
Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi will executive produce the series with Weaver, who’ll also team on the development process. Raimi may be most known for his Spider-Man and Evil Dead movies, but the filmmaker has been busy behind the scenes producing. More recently, Raimi produced this week’s action brawler Boy Kills World and last year’s 65, with Don’t Move on the way.
The “I’m the Grim Reaper” webtoon launched in 2019, delving into the humor and horrors of reaping souls in Hell. That it’s on the cusp of airing its 200th episode means no shortage of story and mythology for Campbell and Stuecken to pull from.
Stay tuned for additional details on this new series as they arrive.