• Before spending his days writing all of the music, performing all of the guitar parts and lending his voice to a multitude of characters in Metalocalypse, Small began his career in animation as the co-creator, writer, voice actor, composer and musician for Home Movies. 

• Nice. I like Gibson guitars, especially Explorers. The only problem here is that such guitars are overpriced. I wonder if Mike Keneally is going to play guitar with Deathklok :D

• nice review! :)

• If you bought this, Swisgar would say, "STOPS COPIES ME"

• If you buy this guitar, Swisgar will only see you with it, and say, "STOPS COPIES ME."

• this is stupid. swisgaar has a plain explorer and doesn't even have nickle covered humbuckers. i hate it. this guitar am dildoes.

• You, know it just needs more...zazz

• OMG! If i had the g's to drop on this, i would. it's so beautiful! but i'll keep rockin my cheap johnsons since i tend to destroy guitars like every 3 months XD i just rawk too hard with the mad heavy metalness and the cherry vodka... lolz

• Though I dont play guitar, I love Dethklok and Metalocalpyse. Skwisgar is awesome... great sound.. and if I had the cash to pick this up, I would even pay for lessons to learn it.. too bad its for right handed people as I would be a lefty.

• Keep in mind kiddies, $2,700 is just MSRP, and the guitar will retail for way below the amount.

• Sorry, V no IV.

• On the show, Murderface plays a Gibson Thunderbird IV, in the real life band setting, the guy who plays bass (and writes an article in BassPlayer Magazine) actually plays a Mike Lull Thunderbird. (or "Fenderbird")

• KA-KA-KA-KA-KA-KA-KA-KA-BABY MY NAME'S DR. ROCKZO, KA-KA-KA-KA-KA-KA THE ROCK N' ROLL CLOWN, AND I DOOOOO COCAINE!! Seriously, I do a lot of cocaine.

• There's no "they" - it's just the one guy writing and recording all the music (aside from the drums, which are done by Gene Hoglan). He also writes the show and voices half of its characters and does God knows what else, and tours with the "real" Dethklok. I've read that he's pretty burned out after juggling all that for a couple of years, which explains why there weren't many songs in the third series and why there hasn't been a new album. As for Nathan's singing voice, I much prefer it in the second series. It's less one-note, quite literally. The first album feels to me like a novelty, a fun cash-in with little value of its own (except for "Go into the Water"), but the second one has some genuinely outstanding songs on it.

• I can guarantee Skwisgaar will be using this custom one in the next series, though! They switched amp brands after the second series, after all. Now, I love <i>Metalocalypse</i>, and that is a gorgeous guitar, but as someone who is still a complete amateur after almost a year of playing, it'd be wasted on me. And if I were going to get a signature guitar, it'd be Devin Townsend's Peavy Vicious one. Now that's a fucking metal guitar! (Not literally, though.)

• And he plays using his dick. Don't forget that.

• Or a guitar made from the wood of Christ's cross.

• They seem to put out a new album about 6-8 months after the season ends, but considering there weren't a whole lot of actual Dethklok songs in season 3 it might be longer as they will have to write some original songs. Did anyone else notice that Nathan's singing voice has changed? Not loving it...

• ...and I catch another one with my obvious troll bait.

• Seriously Brendon? He just wasted a good opportunity to make an Excalibutar or a Swiss Armytar.

• aluminum IS a metal

• What? Almost three grand for a guitar based on some cartoon character's guitar? Mind as well buy yourself a robo-sg which is a billion times more amazing than this. Or buy a regular explorer and dump money into a set of amazing active pick ups like a bad ass duo of EMGs

• Okay not a dude! But as for my couple minutes of googling, no 'heavy' metal guitars available.

• That's nice and all, but when are they releasing another album? <i>Dethalbum II</i> was a legitimately phenomenal piece of work.

• William Murderface Murderface Murderface.

• I'm sorry that you are a slave to buying a product because there is a name etched in a piece of plastic. If you are going to buy an Explorer spare the extra cash and get a regular one.

• You could play it by your Deathklok fountain and get the old ladies to sleep with you.

• Yeah, I'd stand on that.

• there are guitars made out of metal already http://www.electricalguitarcompany.com/ they're pretty fucking metal

• William Murderface (voiced by Tommy Blacha) is Dethklok's bassist. He plays a Gibson Thunderbird Studio 5-string. So sayeth Wikipedia. So say we all.

• *applause* It's "patterned after", not "a replica of" Skwisgaar's guitar. Brendon plays Vs and SGs (which he seems to favor), so an Explorer in and of itself is a fitting tribute to Skwisgaar.

• I'm a beginning guitar player and I drooled. Then I mentally calculated how many hours I'd have to work to pay for that beast, and decided I'd stick to my lil' yamaha acoustic-electric.

• He said 'metal'. Not 'aluminum'. Metal guitars would be totally new. And metal.

• They already make them and have been for almost 20 years. Go google 'aluminum guitar'

• Sweet. But... I think it doesn't have enough zazz.

• There would be some serious resonance problems. But, yeah, Metal.

• Sweet! Now I just need to find out what Murderface plays (I'm a bassist--well, amateur bassist) And I question the validity of the "Awesome Things You'll Never Own" tag in this case: granted, I wouldn't spend that kind of money on an instrument I can't play even if I had it...but $2.7K, while an impressive chunk of change, is not insurmountable for the average Joe or Jane--if they're willing to make some sacrifices (who needs a car, anyway?)To be honest, that price isn't a great deal more than your average new guitar retails for. And as far as availability, it's a limited edition, but so long as you make it in time you can pick up one (or order one) anywhere that sells Gibsons

• &#64;Reason: How long after you made that comment did you realize that Brendon <b>makes</b> Skwisgaar, whatever guitar he plays, and the rest of the Metalocalypse universe? Your statement could easily be rendered untrue.

• Dude, that would be metal.

• Seriously, just get a normal black Explorer with a white pickguard. That is what Skwisgaar actually plays. Not a Silver Burst.

• God I was just thinking about a metal guitar, like a guitar made of metal..would that even work?

• We will make guitars metal. We will make everything metal. Blacker than the blackest black, times infinity. ... Wait, guitars aren't already metal? Well, now they're more metal. Oh well. Love the show. Don't play guitar, or I would get one in a second and play "Crushing My Battle Opponent's Balls" or "I Tamper With Evidence At The Murder Site Of Odin" as loud as possible.

• Oh shit. My nerdy, guita-playing boyfriend is going to want this now. Good thing it's WAY out of his price range.

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