Like with anything Adult Swim I appreciate that it exists yet at the same time I can't pretend I was actually entertained by it or interested in it.
On paper the humor, style and music should be right up my alley and they are all done perfectly fine (finely? the english language is weird sometimes...can you be an adverb too "fine"? If you ask me you can be anything you want, I believe in you!) but I don't remember laughing or even chuckling once. There are some really talented musicians behind this show and the songs are pretty decent if a bit forgettable, but there's no novelty factor to Metal parodying and celebrating itself at the same time at this point, nor when Metalocalypse first came out. The countless cameos fall flat, the doomy weirdness feels a bit forced from the get-go and I can't help but feel I've seen this all before.
This show was great for providing memes and I'm sure after watching it, select 14 year olds doodled some wonderfully bizarre things on their exercise books to freak out their teachers, but beyond that there's no meat to this meal. No teeth. Metal is great but in the 21st century there's nothing intrinsically provoking about it. It's a fantastic form of self-expression but without a certain emotional vulnerability and a smidgen of self-deprecating humour you just come off like a generic dudebro mumbling "dude, metal is like, awesome man, skulls and blood and stuff!"
After watching several episodes it feels like Metalocalypse blew its entire load on the first episode and never grew beyond the tight confines of its own premise. Detroit Metal City this is not.
Still, not too bad. It's not a tremendous waste of time, but i can't say I will remember much about this show.
This show was great for providing memes and I'm sure after watching it, select 14 year olds doodled some wonderfully bizarre things on their exercise books to freak out their teachers, but beyond that there's no meat to this meal. No teeth. Metal is great but in the 21st century there's nothing intrinsically provoking about it. It's a fantastic form of self-expression but without a certain emotional vulnerability and a smidgen of self-deprecating humour you just come off like a generic dudebro mumbling "dude, metal is like, awesome man, skulls and blood and stuff!"
After watching several episodes it feels like Metalocalypse blew its entire load on the first episode and never grew beyond the tight confines of its own premise. Detroit Metal City this is not.
Still, not too bad. It's not a tremendous waste of time, but i can't say I will remember much about this show.