Metalocalypse/Dethwater

Dethwater
Season 1, Episode 2
Airdate	August 11, 2006
Production Number	102
Written by	Tommy Blacha & Brendon Small
Directed by	Jon Schnepp
← 1x01 The Curse of Dethklok	1x03 → Birthdayface
Metalocalypse — Season One

Dethwater is the second episode of the first season of Metalocalypse, and the second episode overall. The band decide to record their next album underwater in a nuclear submarine.

Voices: Tommy Blacha (Toki Wartooth/William Murderface), Brendon Small (Nathan Explosion/Pickles/Skwisgaar Skwigelf/Charles Foster Ofdensen), Mark Hamill (Senator Stampingston), Victor Brandt (General Krosier/Cardinal Ravenwood)

Plot Overview

Nathan deletes the bands latest recording, "Thunderhorse", after what is the 16th attempt of recording a new Dethklok album. Fans have been waiting so long for the new release that some of them are killing themselves. Nathan decides that to record the right album it needs to be recorded in the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench. The band's manager gets them the money for the endeavor as long as there's a producer sent by the record label present.

The Tribunal meet to discuss this news. Worried about Dethklok using a nuclear submarine General Krosier has a plan involving the producer being sent by the record label. In blackmailing him with his past crimes Krosier hopes to take out Dethklok, however the mysterious leader says that they will just watch.

The band are much more impressed with the tracks that they record under the sea, however Nathan notices that Toki's guitar is picking up the sounds of whales. To solve this problem the band decide to put Toki in a liquid oxygen isolation submersion chamber and lower him further into the sea. The nuclear submarine then suffers a blackout, and the band send Pickles into the engine room to fix it, he mumbles and throws a bottle at a console and the submarine powers back up. Unknown to the band, this causes the submarine to start leaking radioactive waste into the sea genetically altering a seahorse swimming by.

The producer, Dick Knubbler, arrives and listens to the recorded tracks and realizes that it's the greatest thing he's ever heard and decides to go straight back to the record label.

Meanwhile Toki, affected by the liquid oxygen submersion, starts singing a song about his underwater friends, the fish, until a large creature comes and disturbs him.

Toki climbs back aboard the submarine just as Dick is leaving and tries to warn them about the monsters, but he's ignored and the producer leaves the submarine in a pod. General Crozier contacts him in the pod to find out what Dethklok had been up to underwater, PRODUCER reports that Dethklok rocked and that the album was amazing much to Krosier's annoyance. Then the Giant mutated seahorse attacks the pod making Dick ascend too quickly, the pressure causing his eyes to explode.

During the closing credits we see that the Album, Dethwater, is a huge hit, going Pentuple Platinum.

Trivia

The Show

• Tracks mentioned from the album Dethwater:

• Mermaid-er
• Electric Eel-Chair
• Scaled and gutted and undercooked
• Scubatank filled with fart

• During the credits we find out that:

• Dick Knubbler gets new robot eyes after his exploded.
• The album Dethwater has live miniature piranha swimming in the case.

Music

• Thunderhorse
• Mermaid-er
• Underwater Friends

Allusions and References

• The sailors aboard the submarine have the letters "БФ" on their shoulder-boards, indicating they are or were members of Russia's Baltic Fleet.

Memorable Moments

• Toki, submerged in liquid oxgen and lowered further into the sea bursts into song singing "Underwater Friends"

Quotes

• Nathan: Now shut up and listen to this, Dick. This is metal. For fish.
  Skwisgaar: Fish don'ts got no good metal to listens to.