Dethklok is both a virtual band featured in the Adult Swim animated program Metalocalypse, as well as a real band created to perform the band's melodic death metal music in live shows. In the Metalocalypse series, Dethklok is the world’s most popular band. So popular that fans will sign “pain waivers” in case anything truly horrible happens to them at a show, which invariably occurs. The band members are also incredibly selfish and stupid, and they create a wave of mayhem, death and destruction wherever they go. Simply put, Dethklok is the most powerful cultural force in the world, which means that they have attracted the keen interest of a shadowy group of world leaders. But the band remains completely oblivious to anything that happens outside their rock and roll bubble.

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