For Immediate Release October 16, 2012
Adult Swim Releases Highly-Anticipated Dethklok Album, Metalocalypse: Dethklok Dethalbum III, Today!
Adult Swim is pleased to announce today’s release of the brand new album from DETHKLOK, the brutal animated band from the Metalocalypse television series, Metalocalypse: Dethklok Dethalbum III. From Williams Street Records, the network’s independent music label, the third album from the chart-topping band will be released in a variety of formats including a standard CD, clean CD and Deluxe Edition CD/DVD combo, which will include a 32-minute behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of Dethalbum III, as well as music videos and more. A vinyl edition of the album with special etching will also be released on November 6, 2012.
Head to www.adultswim.com/dethalbum3 NOW to listen to new tracks from the album, watch the music video for ‘The Galaxy’, and find information about the band’s upcoming Tour. Starting today, fans can also purchase the album at Best Buy and other retailers.
Adult Swim recently announced the release of Metalocalypse Season 4 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on October 30, bringing DETHKLOK back to DVD and Blu-ray for the first time in two years. In the fourth season of the comedy series from co-creators Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, the band welcomes guest appearances from the likes of Corpsegrinder (Cannibal Corpse), Cam Pipes (3 Inches Of Blood), Dweezil Zappa, Jon Hamm and director Werner Herzog among others. Along with all 12 episodes from the series’ fourth season, the Metalocalypse Season 4 DVD and Blu-ray releases will feature more than two hours of special features. Highlights from those features include a 90-minute feature film of Nathan Explosion tackling his latest Shakespeare reading, in “Nathan Reads Shakespeare 4: Comedy of Errors,” a series of band member “StaresDowns,” a look at DETHKLOK Fan Art, “MurderThoughts,” a “Pickles Flyby” and much, much more.
DETHKLOK recently announced a North American headline tour with support from All That Remains, Machine Head, and special guest The Black Dahlia Murder. Kicking off on October 30 in Norfolk, VA, the tour featuring the band from the Metalocalypse animated series will make more than 30 stops throughout the United States and Canada before coming to an end in Atlanta, GA. For ticket information please visit www.adultswim.com/dethtour. See below for all upcoming tour dates.
With The Black Dahlia Murder as the openers, and Machine Head and All That Remains alternating direct support positions in the line-up in each city, the Dethklok North American headliner tour includes the following stops:
10/30/2012 Norfolk, VA @ Norva 10/31/2012 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory 11/2/2012 Silver Spring, MD @ Fillmore 11/3/2012 New York, NY @ Roseland Ballroom 11/4/2012 Worcester, MA @ Palladium 11/5/2012 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis 11/7/2012 Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy 11/8/2012 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE 11/9/2012 Columbus, OH @ LC Pavilion 11/10/2012 Detroit, MI @ Fillmore 11/11/2012 Grand Rapids, MI @Orbit Room 11/13/2012 Fargo, ND @ The Venue 11/14/2012 Minneapolis, MN @ Myth 11/15/2012 Milwaukee, WI @ Rave 11/16/2012 Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom 11/17/2012 Kansas City, MO @ Midland 11/18/2012 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant 11/20/2012 Denver, CO @ Fillmore 11/21/2012 Salt Lake City, UT @ Great Salt Air 11/23/2012 Seattle, WA @ Showbox SODO 11/24/2012 Portland, OR @ Roseland 11/26/2012 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater 11/27/2012 Hollywood, CA @ Palladium 11/28/2012 Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee 11/30/2012 Dallas, TX @ House of Blues 12/1/2012 Austin, TX @ Stubbs 12/2/2012 Houston, TX @ House of Blues 12/4/2012 Orlando, FL @ House of Blues 12/6/2012 Chattanooga, TN @ Track 29 12/7/2012 Charlotte, NC @ Fillmore 12/8/2012 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
For more information on DETHKLOK and Dethalbum III, please visit http://metalocalypse.tv/ orhttp://www.adultswim.com/music/.
About Williams Street Records: Williams Street Records is the independent record label from Adult Swim. Based in Atlanta and Los Angeles, the group is responsible for the creation and marketing of albums across a wide range of artists and genres. Previous albums include the best-selling Dethklok: The Dethalbum and The Dethalbum II based on Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse animated series, Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Have Yourself a Meaty Little Christmas, soundtracks for The Venture Bros. and Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! The label also works with artists unaffiliated with Adult Swim, including Killer Mike, Danger Mouse and MF Doom, Witchdoctor and more. Adult Swim (AdultSwim.com), launched in 2001, is Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.’s network offering original and acquired animated and live-action series for young adults. Airing nightly from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. (ET/PT), Adult Swim is basic cable’s #1 network with persons 18-34 and 18-49, and is seen in 99 million U.S. homes. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.
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