@@user-ip1um7tv6n Its not a whole season, it's an hour long rock opera thing called Doomstar Requiem. Unfortunately I have no idea where you can see it.
@@andrewanderson1755 thats the point the author wanted to make Toki is more gifted but he doesnt practice becouse he cant recognise his own talent while Skwisgaar practices everyday despite already being the best its a metaphore that talent may give you a lot but only hard work and dedication can bring you to the very top
@@TheStrangr2112 That's pretty much where the animation budget went on this show. You can pretty much learn to play every song from this show by watching it frame by frame
That’s legitimately the best part of this show. The realistic animation of the guitars and drums is why so many musicians love this show, even if they aren’t fans of metal.
Still can’t get over how they tried to keep the rights too the music he made for the show and we’re gonna turn it into some horrendous bs ahaha. Glad he got out when did, like I don’t recall many shows that had a entire album every season lmao well that was worth listening too lol
Skwisgaar is a wizard, characterized by ceaseless study and discipline and mastery. Toki is a sorcerer, performing feats with intuition and innate, unknowable predilection. How is Skwissgar so good? It's wizardry. And how can Toki keep up at all? That's sorcery.
so I just realized something.... Toki turns into a falcon (Snow Falcon) and Skwisgaar turns into a horse/ centuar (Thunderhorse). If you are unaware, Brendon's two signature guitars are the Thunderhorse and the Snow falcon, so I guess that's a bit of an easter egg that I thought was interesting. Ok, that's all.
lol it true just like at the beginning of the video you can see that his shadow has wings.. toki is in some way the angel of death... everything he loves or what he gets attached to dies..
And yets Toki is a hottie XD and skwisgaar is not so i donts gets whys he gets so much tails XD Toki clearly needs the lovin, abused all his damn life.
Toki is death but having giant wings has nothing to do with it. Toki has giant wings because of his guitar. He plays a snow Falcon Flying V. Same with Skwisgaar. He is a horse because his guitar is a Thunderhorse.
@@andrewandrew3713 Are you new here? I think you're new here. The Thunderhorse is Skwisgaar's signature silverburst Explorer WITH THES BURST BUCKERS PICKUPS! Moon just neglected to mention that in this video he *also* uses a "snow horse" version of his signature because it's common knowledge at this point. There's also a Ghosthorse Explorer out there that goes for 700-800 dollars brand new that's actually still in production, as opposed to the Thunderhorse which was discontinued a while ago and costs 1000-1300 dollars on the resale market because there's nothing quite like an exorbitant markup on a regular old tricked out Epiphone, right? And although the snow horse guitar doesn't officially exist, there are *MANY* high end custom builds as well as affordable chibson options out there for budgeted guitarists like me.
@@ZeroOmega-vg8nq Its also a message about what the creators think about hard work. You might be a naturally talented genius, but the guy who works hard will always be better than you if you don't put in the work.
Idk why and it sounds so corny but this scene always makes me emotional. Toki coming to them cause he felt something beyond this world telling him to go to them. Pouring out his little heart. Them realizing how powerful his talent is. It’s the last piece of the puzzle. The true birth of the Gods.
Absolutely, it's very emotional and that makes it so much better. Toki's little intro is so absolutely sweet too. That makes it even more awesome when he is actually on Swisgaar's level.
It still saddens me knowing The Doomstar Requiem is most likely the last of Metalocalypse. It was one of the few shows I've watched that had me hooked since the beginning and this emotionally attached to the characters. I really wish it hadn't ended.
Trinity Cantu Adult Swim has a habit of bringing shows back after about 10 years. Samurai Jack, Harvey Birdman...so in 5 years we’ll have a new season of Metalocalypse.
@@BlueSkyCrystals Will? Thats pretty bold. They just took Home Movies and Metalocalypse off Hulu, those bastards (good thing I have all the M dvds, except season 3 (lost it)
@@BlueSkyCrystals Highly unlikely that will happen considering what they did to the guy that made the show...trolled him hard. Fans too. He died a few months ago.
Kittehh Rawrs They’ll still do it. Nostalgia builds hype very easily. They make money off it all the time. The only question is if Brendan Small wants to do it by then. I know they can do it without him since they own the rights, but they’d need him to bring the fans back.
@@BlueSkyCrystals I doubt they could do it without him. He's 3/5 of the main cast! (More than that if you count people like Offdenson.) He's most of the people on the show, and without him, they wouldn't even have the music!
The lights flicker when Toki says “Can you feel it? Electricity.” This is the first time The Five have been united so they would be feeling their true power for the first time.
accurate depiction of that feeling when you meet another guitarist and you both manage to harmonize your leads for the first time after finding out you're both guitarists
I love how Toki quite literally is the greatest guitar player in the world, even greater than Skwisgaar, but he just doesn't practice and doesn't take attention that well.
@@fireemblemaddict128 Apologies then, if we want to get all technical about it. Toki has the ability to ***EASILY*** overcome literally every other guitarist and become the greatest literally any time he wants. As far as my books go, that's the greatest.
@@Snow_Jay_Simpson It's been proven before, time and time again, that he is only the current #1 because Toki doesn't care enough to put him in his proper #2 place. It's also been shown that Toki can't handle playing live if all the attention is on him. Skwisgaar is only the best because Toki *allows* him to be.
@@gabrielbjornursidae Lets get this straight, any guitarist can play like toki or skisgaar because it's nothing but brendan small, brendan small is talented, but his art tells us he knows he can tap into his inner toki, and his inner skwisgar thus is battling against himself from being an "idiot savant", and a hard worker, who knows there's much better guitarists out there. Brendan can't improvise, and that is a ridiculous skill unto itself, if brendan went against guthrie govan in a "guitar solo duel" brendan would be lost without hearing the chord progressions ad nauseum, while guthrie govan can probably improvise any western musical chord progression with no problem. and probably play his songs by just hearing them. But i doubt brendan small could play "wonderful slippery thing" or "Waves" without long practice. There's classical guitarists who can hear your music, transcribe it, and play a better melody with one hearing. Again this sounds stupid to argue about, because they aren't the best guitarists only in this fictional world of art. And in real life, being the best guitarist sometimes means that you aren't even known by anyone, and sometimes being the better businessman means getting your name out there and people liking your work enough that you move the genre forward, whatever genre it might be. Thus people calling u the next hendrix, or van halen just because you moved the genre forward, every decade has its greatest guitarists and in the mainstream its starting to mean less and less.
@@hamburgerbento4992 Scales and arpeggios are indeed serious business. Skwisgaar, being obsessed with his technique (he takes his guitar into the hot tub, FFS), would have disqualified him for failing this part alone. Okay, I still laughed.
Realized that it also presents a super interesting narrative that during this duel, they can pull back and play harmoniously. Feeding each others creative voice during this exchange of performance cohesiveness
Even the drums blow my mind, not even considering the mighty epicness of the guitars. Fucking cartoon music, and bolws most bands into tiny pieces of rust...
Brendon (Sp?) Small has been in the Business a LONG time, doing such pieces as the Original Power Rangers opening. He has A LOT of experience doing both live and show tracks.
Helhest Nifelheim he is a fucking machine: Gene Hoglan played drums on the songs, unless otherwise noted. 1983 - Slayer - Show No Mercy, backing vocals on Evil Has No Boundaries 1985 - Wargod - Wargod (demo) 1986 - Dark Angel - Darkness Descends 1989 - Dark Angel - Leave Scars 1990 - Dark Angel - Live Scars (EP) 1991 - Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal 1992 - Dark Angel - Decade Of Chaos (best of CD) 1992 - Silent Scream - From the Darkest Depths Of The Imagination (mixing, production) 1993 - Death - Individual Thought Patterns 1995 - Death - Symbolic 1995 - Naphobia - Of Hell (guest drummer) 1997 - Strapping Young Lad - City 1997 - Testament - Demonic 1998 - Old Man's Child - Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion 1998 - Strapping Young Lad - No Sleep Till Bedtime (live) 1998 - Devin Townsend - Infinity 1998 - Devin Townsend - Christeen plus 4 Demos (EP) 1999 - The Almighty Punchdrunk - Music for Them Asses 2000 - Devin Townsend - Physicist 2001 - Devin Townsend - Terria 2001 - Just Cause - Finger It Out 2001 - Frygirl - Someone Please Kill Me (congas) 2002 - Daemon - Eye For An Eye 2003 - Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad 2003 - Tenet - Sovereign [demo] 2005 - Strapping Young Lad - Alien 2005 - Opeth - played drums on the video for "The Grand Conjuration", a song from their Ghost Reveries album. 2005 - Ani Kyd - Evil Needs Candy Too 2006 - Strapping Young Lad - The New Black 2007 - Meldrum - Blowin' Up The Machine (guest drummer) 2007 - Dethklok - The Dethalbum 2007 - Dethklok - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead/Dethklok 2007 - MR. PLOW - "Apocalypse Plow" 2008 - Zimmers Hole - When You Were Shouting at the Devil...We Were in League With Satan 2008 - Pitch Black Forecast - Absentee 2008 - Mechanism - Inspired Horrific 2008 - Fattooth - "Self Titled" 2009 - Dethklok - Dethalbum II 2009 - Tenet - Sovereign 2010 - Fear Factory - Mechanize 2012 - Brendon Small - Brendon Small's Galaktikon 2012 - Testament - The Dark Roots of Earth 2012 - Meldrum - Lifer 2012 - Dethklok - Dethalbum III 2012 - Sylencer - A Lethal Dose of Truth (Guest drummer on "Get It Up")[13] 2012 - Memorain - Evolution 2013 - Viking - No Child Left Behind 2013 - Dethklok - The Doomstar Requiem
One thing i love most about this is their faces when Toki starts playing. It hasnt even been a few seconds and all hes doing is mimicking Skwisgar on a basic level but the sheer fact that he can even do that is impressive to them since no one else that showed up or possibly even anyone in the world could even stand against Skwisgars playing much less play along.
I really like the blink and you miss it bit right after the baroque part. If you look at Skwisgaar's face, he's full ass smiling. He's not fighting him anymore, he's actually enjoying their jam session.
Toki is my favorite. Hes just got a lot of spirit to him thats not all blood and gore. Hes got a soft spot which makes him a little like everyone else :)
Toki's shadow is a flacon, and his guitar in the in seasons 3 and 4 is called the snow falcon that's why he turned into a falcon skwisgaar's guitar is called the thunderhorse , that's why he turned into a horse
well i guess its not 100% sure but anyway ^^ www.idigitaltimes.com/metalocalypse-season-5-release-date-creator-brendon-small-explains-how-make-it-happen-472614
Skwisgaar is like a virtuoso with technical skill attained from tons of practice. Toki is like the kind of lazy, but extremely talented guitar player that doesn't practice, but has a natural flow whenever he picks one up. This duel is like a good representation of Hard Work vs. Natural talent.
I don't think I'd noticed the storytelling through music theory that's going on here before now. The battle starts with a fairly standard opening gambit (a couple of pentatonic licks with some showy sweeping for skwissgar) which toki matches. Skwissgar then tests his opponent with some short licks, Toki responds in kind and begins harmonising with Skwissgar, showing his prowess and compatibilty. Skwissgar becomes more aggressive, using using some fast atonal picking and firing some complex sweeps at Toki; again countered blow for blow which somehow turns them baroque. By this stage they have begun to work together and transcend into the sky accompanied by perfectly synchronised (and relatively complex) harmonised lead lines to showcase their instinctive understanding of each others playing. I fucking love this show.
Anybody else notice that at this point in history when toki's hair is flowing in the wind it looks like a hawk flying and skwisgaars hair looks like a horses mane? Just me trying to make connections? Alright.
My friend and I watched the show multiple times. As modern metalheads, we were so excited for a whole movie of Metalocalypse. We were severely disappointed, but at least this track slams!
Currently learning this and it's the single hardest piece I've ever done, primarily Skwisgaar's half. Nuts. Love the show and listen to the music to this day. My fingers hurt now. 🤘🤘🤘
"All rights...You seems so nice it's a shame it must go downs this way..." This is Skwisgar literally informing Toki he was about to fulfill the man's wish and murder him with the power of his guitar. Nothing personal, it's just what happens when mortals come to the attention of a rock god. :D
However, he soon realized that he had met his equal and opposite. The god of life was now face-to-face with the god of death. And although life had won, death will always be in his shadow.
His voice starts to change after the episode where their parents are brought in. Because Toki begins to mentally regress at that point, and his voice changes to match.
I enjoy the symbolism here. Toki is gifted with innate talent, therefor he "flies" through his playing because the passion drives him. Skwisgaar has so much experience that he could "run forever" and "carry the band" with his exceptional skills he's earned through years of diligent practice.
Only In Metalocalypse Can You Witness A Horse/Man, Bird/Man, Sky Battle With Awesome Guitar Solos And Riffs Along With Magic Harry Potter Like Bolts Flying Past One Another And Originating Out Of The Guitars Themselves. Fucking Hilarious And Sick.
I think it's supposed to be a falcon because of their guitar naming conventions. Skwisgaar has the Snow Horse Explorer here (later he has the Thunder Horse Explorer) and Toki's white flying V Guitar that he had in one episode is called Snow Falcon.
I'm kinda sad that I feel there will never be a segment like this again. The dynamics of the two, the symbolism, every movement synchronized, the fucking pinkies at 1:56. Absolute masterclass.
I remember when I was a kid, I used to watch almost every cartoon and anime the tv can offer, bugs bunny, martin mystery, family guy, everything. One day I was watching tv but I forgot what show I was watching, this show aired next. I had no idea it was a metal show that's not intended for children. My family didn't mind at all. This episode was the one that played when I first watched it. I got so into the music and I couldn't stop thinking about how awesome it was! I believe this part in particular got me into metal 🤘🔥
I remember when I first heard this back when doom star requiem first aired; the hair on my arms stood straight up. Still get that feeling, especially at 2:15
I love how when Swissgar turns to a Centaur he looks back and realizes Toki (as a man/falcon) is catching up to him. Swissgar never had to play so hard against someone before.
As awesome as this is on the guitar, the truth is that Hoglan fucking MURDERED those drums in amazing ways to accent the whole thing, do incredible stuff, and STILL somehow be third-fiddle.
I love how Nathan, Pickles and Murderface's eyes go wide. It means that until Toki, no one had even lasted five seconds against Skwisgaar.
WHERE I CAN SEE THIS SEASON?
@@user-ip1um7tv6n Its not a whole season, it's an hour long rock opera thing called Doomstar Requiem. Unfortunately I have no idea where you can see it.
@@etherraichu HBO Max
He aint that good!
@@user-ip1um7tv6n UA-cam itself has it for sale, if you wanna buy it. It's pretty cheap.
I mean.... Toki held his own against a literal demi-god
They're all gods. Toki ams Death and Skwisgaar ams Life.
Toki is likely the better guitarist, he just never practices
@@andrewanderson1755 thats the point the author wanted to make Toki is more gifted but he doesnt practice becouse he cant recognise his own talent while Skwisgaar practices everyday despite already being the best its a metaphore that talent may give you a lot but only hard work and dedication can bring you to the very top
@@andrewanderson1755 i think there was an actual episode toki started practising and became the better guitarist
@@Noktarash1990 nah, he was taking guitar lessons but he kept forgetting his guitar and really just wanted to be friends with his teacher, lol.
The amount of detail to sync the fingering to what’s actually being played this show was amazing, still is
If I’m correct I think they rotoscoped Brendan small’ fingers
@@TheStrangr2112 That's pretty much where the animation budget went on this show. You can pretty much learn to play every song from this show by watching it frame by frame
That’s legitimately the best part of this show. The realistic animation of the guitars and drums is why so many musicians love this show, even if they aren’t fans of metal.
Still can’t get over how they tried to keep the rights too the music he made for the show and we’re gonna turn it into some horrendous bs ahaha. Glad he got out when did, like I don’t recall many shows that had a entire album every season lmao well that was worth listening too lol
Skwisgaar is a wizard, characterized by ceaseless study and discipline and mastery.
Toki is a sorcerer, performing feats with intuition and innate, unknowable predilection.
How is Skwissgar so good? It's wizardry.
And how can Toki keep up at all? That's sorcery.
Basically D&D.
Great comment
I might say that Toki is more like a Wild Mage who gets his power through chaos, but your comment is good as is. Nice.
Wild magic is a subset of sorcery in D&D :)
some deep shit right here, it got to my heart
so I just realized something.... Toki turns into a falcon (Snow Falcon) and Skwisgaar turns into a horse/ centuar (Thunderhorse). If you are unaware, Brendon's two signature guitars are the Thunderhorse and the Snow falcon, so I guess that's a bit of an easter egg that I thought was interesting. Ok, that's all.
That...actually is pretty fuckin' neat. Thanks for pointing it out!
I love that this show still has little gems to find after so long
So is that also why toki names his cover band thunder horse when he's pretending to be skwisgaar? That's hilarious
@@wally99szarek oh man I never even thought of that! That's so funny
@@vulturecat3378 he also plays the my little pony theme near the end which I find funny.
The best thing about this show is it works as both satire of the power metal genre and some very good musicianship as well.
Cheetahcabra Tbh it makes more fun of death metal than anything. but dethklok usually pokes fun at every metal genre.
The best part is, by making a parody of metal bands they accidentally made a ligitimatly great metal band
To me was more about Death Metal but yeah a bit of that genre too.
The best thing about the show is that it made me appreciate all forms of metal even more, simply by virtue of them being parodied mercilessly.
its funny its only 3 guys doing it
According to the prophecy Skwisgaar represents life and beauty and Toki represents Death.
This is literally a battle between life and death.
+Zelthar Don't forget all the damn kids Skwisgaar has, too.
+Sardonicus haha true
and Skwisgaar represents life?
lol it true just like at the beginning of the video you can see that his shadow has wings.. toki is in some way the angel of death... everything he loves or what he gets attached to dies..
toki is a reincarnated death god but does'nt know. almost everyone he gets friendly with dies
And yets Toki is a hottie XD and skwisgaar is not so i donts gets whys he gets so much tails XD Toki clearly needs the lovin, abused all his damn life.
That beautiful moment where Nathan's trademark scowl goes away as Toki starts playing.
1:17 ...
scowl is still there, but their glares are gone
(and Pickles is surprised)
Toki’s shadow has giant wings. In the prophesy he’s Death and almost everything he gets attached to dies horribly. Toki is the god damn angel of death
Toki is death but having giant wings has nothing to do with it. Toki has giant wings because of his guitar. He plays a snow Falcon Flying V. Same with Skwisgaar. He is a horse because his guitar is a Thunderhorse.
monarch to the kingdom of the dead wut 0_0
@@moondivine2288a thunderhorse? That's an Explorer my guy
@@m3lanchol1a60I see what you did there 😏 👏 😉
@@andrewandrew3713 Are you new here? I think you're new here.
The Thunderhorse is Skwisgaar's signature silverburst Explorer WITH THES BURST BUCKERS PICKUPS! Moon just neglected to mention that in this video he *also* uses a "snow horse" version of his signature because it's common knowledge at this point.
There's also a Ghosthorse Explorer out there that goes for 700-800 dollars brand new that's actually still in production, as opposed to the Thunderhorse which was discontinued a while ago and costs 1000-1300 dollars on the resale market because there's nothing quite like an exorbitant markup on a regular old tricked out Epiphone, right?
And although the snow horse guitar doesn't officially exist, there are *MANY* high end custom builds as well as affordable chibson options out there for budgeted guitarists like me.
Toki never practices but is still on Skwig's level. Kinda shows who is really the most gifted.
I've always thought the same thing.
The diligent practicing but arrogant master vs the naturally talented but easily distracted savant
Nature vs nurture yet again
@@ZeroOmega-vg8nq Its also a message about what the creators think about hard work. You might be a naturally talented genius, but the guy who works hard will always be better than you if you don't put in the work.
Also death is easy. It’s effortless. You don’t work for death - it just is.
But Life is hard. It’s always a struggle to not die.
Toki’s childhood abuse and trauma makes this even more heartwarming and awesome at the same time.
His first band and already he became famous. Indeed Toki is right, this is the dream come true.
Idk why and it sounds so corny but this scene always makes me emotional. Toki coming to them cause he felt something beyond this world telling him to go to them. Pouring out his little heart. Them realizing how powerful his talent is. It’s the last piece of the puzzle. The true birth of the Gods.
When you take into account Toki’s childhood trauma, how can you not feel emotional?
Absolutely, it's very emotional and that makes it so much better. Toki's little intro is so absolutely sweet too. That makes it even more awesome when he is actually on Swisgaar's level.
Apparently Toki was only 16 when he auditioned for Dethklok! He's just as gifted if not way more gooders than Skwisgaar since he doesn't practice
Word. True Metalocalypse fans know that Skwisgaar is a Swedish dildo-licker, whereas Toki is like a lady on her period.
Stops copies me!
No! You stops copies me!
You stops copies me!
You stops copies me first!
...& on it goes...the greatest guitar bickering ever🤣🎸🎶🔥
I love how you used the phrase "way more gooders"🤣
That's why I used the "stops copies me" phrase😎
This show is epic on a grand level🎶
It still saddens me knowing The Doomstar Requiem is most likely the last of Metalocalypse. It was one of the few shows I've watched that had me hooked since the beginning and this emotionally attached to the characters. I really wish it hadn't ended.
Trinity Cantu Adult Swim has a habit of bringing shows back after about 10 years. Samurai Jack, Harvey Birdman...so in 5 years we’ll have a new season of Metalocalypse.
@@BlueSkyCrystals Will? Thats pretty bold. They just took Home Movies and Metalocalypse off Hulu, those bastards (good thing I have all the M dvds, except season 3 (lost it)
@@BlueSkyCrystals Highly unlikely that will happen considering what they did to the guy that made the show...trolled him hard. Fans too. He died a few months ago.
Kittehh Rawrs They’ll still do it. Nostalgia builds hype very easily. They make money off it all the time.
The only question is if Brendan Small wants to do it by then. I know they can do it without him since they own the rights, but they’d need him to bring the fans back.
@@BlueSkyCrystals I doubt they could do it without him. He's 3/5 of the main cast! (More than that if you count people like Offdenson.) He's most of the people on the show, and without him, they wouldn't even have the music!
Norway VS Sweden
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200th like. Lol.
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Did anyone else notice that Toki's shadow has wings when he's at the door?
holy shit man! he's referred to by the tribunal as the angel of death as well, since everyone he comes into contact with dies
toolfan923 Damn, good eye. I didn't notice at all.
That's fucking brilliant detail on the animators part, this shows a legend
Cool detail , eh?
I noticed that when I stopped The video. Very interesting detail.
The lights flicker when Toki says “Can you feel it? Electricity.” This is the first time The Five have been united so they would be feeling their true power for the first time.
Damn. Nice catch
My only complain with this super awesome guitar duel is: this is TOO SHORT!
EXACTLY!!!!
My only complaint is that no one's plugged into amps, at least not Toki
@@InfernosReaper The power of Metal. You do not need any amps or speakers. If you do. The universe would melt.
Please for christ sake let Brendon finish this epic tale.
I know I’m 4 years late, but Galaktikon 2 finished the story. Just listen to the album in vinyl order instead of Spotify/CD order.
And now we’re getting a movie, along with Venture Bros. and Aqua Teen. AS pulled through
@@HC-qc5rp thanks for the good news!👍
When Skwisgaar and Toki first start playing, it sends shivers down my spine. o.o
Rebecca Elizabeth It gets me every time.
I feel it when they harmonize after the baroque part
Honestly! Gives me straight goosebumps listening to the beginning!
For all of us who have waited..METALOCALYPSE IS BACK
YOOOO LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!! 🤘🤘🤘
What are you talking about
@@marcussavina2726 new movie I think
It’s in very tentative stages of pre-production.
For real 😳🤩
accurate depiction of that feeling when you meet another guitarist and you both manage to harmonize your leads for the first time after finding out you're both guitarists
The classical interlude is an excellent display of these two talents exploring the others creative voice to a harmonious outcome!
I love how Toki quite literally is the greatest guitar player in the world, even greater than Skwisgaar, but he just doesn't practice and doesn't take attention that well.
A person is not the greatest if they're no the greatest. Not practicing is no excuse. Greatness comes with practices regardless of talent!
@@fireemblemaddict128 Apologies then, if we want to get all technical about it. Toki has the ability to ***EASILY*** overcome literally every other guitarist and become the greatest literally any time he wants. As far as my books go, that's the greatest.
@@gabrielbjornursidae skwisgaar is the best guitarist because he practices all the time you never see him without his guitar.
@@Snow_Jay_Simpson It's been proven before, time and time again, that he is only the current #1 because Toki doesn't care enough to put him in his proper #2 place. It's also been shown that Toki can't handle playing live if all the attention is on him. Skwisgaar is only the best because Toki *allows* him to be.
@@gabrielbjornursidae Lets get this straight, any guitarist can play like toki or skisgaar because it's nothing but brendan small, brendan small is talented, but his art tells us he knows he can tap into his inner toki, and his inner skwisgar thus is battling against himself from being an "idiot savant", and a hard worker, who knows there's much better guitarists out there.
Brendan can't improvise, and that is a ridiculous skill unto itself, if brendan went against guthrie govan in a "guitar solo duel" brendan would be lost without hearing the chord progressions ad nauseum, while guthrie govan can probably improvise any western musical chord progression with no problem. and probably play his songs by just hearing them. But i doubt brendan small could play "wonderful slippery thing" or "Waves" without long practice.
There's classical guitarists who can hear your music, transcribe it, and play a better melody with one hearing.
Again this sounds stupid to argue about, because they aren't the best guitarists only in this fictional world of art. And in real life, being the best guitarist sometimes means that you aren't even known by anyone, and sometimes being the better businessman means getting your name out there and people liking your work enough that you move the genre forward, whatever genre it might be. Thus people calling u the next hendrix, or van halen just because you moved the genre forward, every decade has its greatest guitarists and in the mainstream its starting to mean less and less.
The rest of the bands "Holy shit" moment when toki starts to shred. Legendary
"...but befores you leaves, you must understand, that nobody's ever made me plays this wells...therefores...I want you in this...BAND!!!"
How 1:54 transitions into the most delicious baroque metal ive ever heard is just a chef's kiss.
That classical bit tho!!! The funniest smug faces on both skwisgaar and toki! PRICELESS
Don't laugh it's serious
Keep in mind the pinkies extended for the fancies of guitar rift sets
@@hamburgerbento4992 Scales and arpeggios are indeed serious business. Skwisgaar, being obsessed with his technique (he takes his guitar into the hot tub, FFS), would have disqualified him for failing this part alone.
Okay, I still laughed.
Honestly, that's my favorite part from the whole track it's beautiful. I always love the Bach prelude influence
Realized that it also presents a super interesting narrative that during this duel, they can pull back and play harmoniously. Feeding each others creative voice during this exchange of performance cohesiveness
Toki is wearing a fannypack.
TOKI IS WEARING A FANNYPACK.
Omg I didn't ever notice
brutal
Majestic furry It's the blackest and most brutal thing ever.
Lol
Joy Lobo Fanny packs are useful man
Even the drums blow my mind, not even considering the mighty epicness of the guitars.
Fucking cartoon music, and bolws most bands into tiny pieces of rust...
Brendon (Sp?) Small has been in the Business a LONG time, doing such pieces as the Original Power Rangers opening. He has A LOT of experience doing both live and show tracks.
Mega Mawile "Original Power Rangers opening"?! What?! That was Ron Wasserman, bruh
For me it's funny cause the drummer (i think) was in Death, Fear Factory and some other bands
bro calm down. .___________.
Helhest Nifelheim he is a fucking machine:
Gene Hoglan played drums on the songs, unless otherwise noted.
1983 - Slayer - Show No Mercy, backing vocals on Evil Has No Boundaries
1985 - Wargod - Wargod (demo)
1986 - Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
1989 - Dark Angel - Leave Scars
1990 - Dark Angel - Live Scars (EP)
1991 - Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
1992 - Dark Angel - Decade Of Chaos (best of CD)
1992 - Silent Scream - From the Darkest Depths Of The Imagination (mixing, production)
1993 - Death - Individual Thought Patterns
1995 - Death - Symbolic
1995 - Naphobia - Of Hell (guest drummer)
1997 - Strapping Young Lad - City
1997 - Testament - Demonic
1998 - Old Man's Child - Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion
1998 - Strapping Young Lad - No Sleep Till Bedtime (live)
1998 - Devin Townsend - Infinity
1998 - Devin Townsend - Christeen plus 4 Demos (EP)
1999 - The Almighty Punchdrunk - Music for Them Asses
2000 - Devin Townsend - Physicist
2001 - Devin Townsend - Terria
2001 - Just Cause - Finger It Out
2001 - Frygirl - Someone Please Kill Me (congas)
2002 - Daemon - Eye For An Eye
2003 - Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad
2003 - Tenet - Sovereign [demo]
2005 - Strapping Young Lad - Alien
2005 - Opeth - played drums on the video for "The Grand Conjuration", a song from their Ghost Reveries album.
2005 - Ani Kyd - Evil Needs Candy Too
2006 - Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
2007 - Meldrum - Blowin' Up The Machine (guest drummer)
2007 - Dethklok - The Dethalbum
2007 - Dethklok - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead/Dethklok
2007 - MR. PLOW - "Apocalypse Plow"
2008 - Zimmers Hole - When You Were Shouting at the Devil...We Were in League With Satan
2008 - Pitch Black Forecast - Absentee
2008 - Mechanism - Inspired Horrific
2008 - Fattooth - "Self Titled"
2009 - Dethklok - Dethalbum II
2009 - Tenet - Sovereign
2010 - Fear Factory - Mechanize
2012 - Brendon Small - Brendon Small's Galaktikon
2012 - Testament - The Dark Roots of Earth
2012 - Meldrum - Lifer
2012 - Dethklok - Dethalbum III
2012 - Sylencer - A Lethal Dose of Truth (Guest drummer on "Get It Up")[13]
2012 - Memorain - Evolution
2013 - Viking - No Child Left Behind
2013 - Dethklok - The Doomstar Requiem
This show is literally the reason I play guitar today. I wish it had never been cancelled.
There is a new movie green lit by Adult Swim!
One thing i love most about this is their faces when Toki starts playing. It hasnt even been a few seconds and all hes doing is mimicking Skwisgar on a basic level but the sheer fact that he can even do that is impressive to them since no one else that showed up or possibly even anyone in the world could even stand against Skwisgars playing much less play along.
I really like the blink and you miss it bit right after the baroque part. If you look at Skwisgaar's face, he's full ass smiling. He's not fighting him anymore, he's actually enjoying their jam session.
Probably why he makes such a good 2nd guitarist. He can mimic Skwizgar and amplify the notes he plays.
Toki is my favorite. Hes just got a lot of spirit to him thats not all blood and gore. Hes got a soft spot which makes him a little like everyone else :)
I audibly cheered the first time I heard Toki's first "response" to Skwisgaar's lick.
Posh Toki and Skwisgaar is the greatest thing to ever be animated.
Toki's shadow is a flacon, and his guitar in the in seasons 3 and 4 is called the snow falcon that's why he turned into a falcon skwisgaar's guitar is called the thunderhorse , that's why he turned into a horse
Nicholas DeMarco the white version is called snowhorse tho, thunderhorse is a different guitar he has.
Well no shit lmao
“Flacon?”
i miss this show :'(
the new season is coming!
where did you get this info WickerMan?
well i guess its not 100% sure but anyway ^^ www.idigitaltimes.com/metalocalypse-season-5-release-date-creator-brendon-small-explains-how-make-it-happen-472614
You can watch metalocalypse for free on the adult swim website
I just realized if you look at the ground at the begging you can see his shadow is a hawk
toki has been called "the angel of death"
+themagicwave it has nothing to do with that. His line of guitar is the snow falcon and swis's is the thunderhorse.
+PApa TK aka a Gibson explorer and flying XD
+William Evans Yes, they are just Explorers and Flying V's, but the signature models are called the Snow Falcon and the Thunderhorse.
tonellojohn I know this friend
Skwisgaar is like a virtuoso with technical skill attained from tons of practice.
Toki is like the kind of lazy, but extremely talented guitar player that doesn't practice, but has a natural flow whenever he picks one up. This duel is like a good representation of Hard Work vs. Natural talent.
That’s a good representation.
I don't think I'd noticed the storytelling through music theory that's going on here before now.
The battle starts with a fairly standard opening gambit (a couple of pentatonic licks with some showy sweeping for skwissgar) which toki matches. Skwissgar then tests his opponent with some short licks, Toki responds in kind and begins harmonising with Skwissgar, showing his prowess and compatibilty. Skwissgar becomes more aggressive, using using some fast atonal picking and firing some complex sweeps at Toki; again countered blow for blow which somehow turns them baroque. By this stage they have begun to work together and transcend into the sky accompanied by perfectly synchronised (and relatively complex) harmonised lead lines to showcase their instinctive understanding of each others playing.
I fucking love this show.
I could've sworn I saw them both smiling at 2:15 when they're flying up together when I first saw this when it came out. It was my favorite detail
I never realized it but the way Skwisgaar starts the duel, he was ready to obliterate Toki way way worse than all the previous guitarists lol.
No mercy for the weak
@@sharkbrother6596 Yet Toki was ready to accept the challenge, though he only managed to come this far.
The Baroque one is so freaking epic!
+Coroi Radu-Adrian totally didn't expect that part... I died laughing
Okay but my music teacher told me he recognised that part from an actual ballet, anyone know if he’s right and it’s from a real piece?
@@ZaidenTravels Paganini
Baroque era was just metal before electricity was invented.
1:25 that little harmony is so happy and fun it always makes me tear up a little. Can't help but sing with it.
metalocalypse is a western anime about guitars tbh lmao
1:55 I love how their expressions have that snobbish, elegant look going on XD Was cracking up when I saw that.
Ahh, what a posh analysis, my good gentleman.
Anybody else notice that at this point in history when toki's hair is flowing in the wind it looks like a hawk flying and skwisgaars hair looks like a horses mane? Just me trying to make connections? Alright.
dat wuz le point
My friend and I watched the show multiple times. As modern metalheads, we were so excited for a whole movie of Metalocalypse.
We were severely disappointed, but at least this track slams!
Brendan is a huge fan of Rock Opera, can you blame him?
Doomstar Requiem is literally the most satisfying and appropriate presentation of the outcome this show built to and was avaliable to it at the time
Probably the most epic and most excellent thing you will ever hear and see in your whole life
Currently learning this and it's the single hardest piece I've ever done, primarily Skwisgaar's half. Nuts. Love the show and listen to the music to this day. My fingers hurt now. 🤘🤘🤘
Look at Toki's shadow at the very beginning when he enters. :D
Angel of death
John InEnglish Monarch to the kingdom of the deeeaads
"All rights...You seems so nice it's a shame it must go downs this way..."
This is Skwisgar literally informing Toki he was about to fulfill the man's wish and murder him with the power of his guitar. Nothing personal, it's just what happens when mortals come to the attention of a rock god. :D
However, he soon realized that he had met his equal and opposite. The god of life was now face-to-face with the god of death. And although life had won, death will always be in his shadow.
1:47 The note choice is so damn good.
This ams amazings guitar playings
Yeeah, I thinks this ams the amazings guitar playings too!
John L Rice this guitar playing makes all the others guitars players look like dildos
Danny Polanco This guitars is exactly what I most can't the least.
guitars likes whats is there more music.
The part after the classical bit, where they play in the clouds, is just amazing. The harmonies make my ears weep
Skwisgar Skwigelf is taller than a tree.
But Toki Wartooth is definitely not a bumblebee.
his voice is deeper as a younger adult then when he's older just keep that in mind
His voice starts to change after the episode where their parents are brought in. Because Toki begins to mentally regress at that point, and his voice changes to match.
I enjoy the symbolism here. Toki is gifted with innate talent, therefor he "flies" through his playing because the passion drives him. Skwisgaar has so much experience that he could "run forever" and "carry the band" with his exceptional skills he's earned through years of diligent practice.
That pretty much sums up power metal
thank you :)
Well...that, and 6 hours a day practices, understanding of pitch, rhythm, harmony and melody...composition and educated improvisation. More or less...
@@HexenStar and musics dyslexkia
@@HexenStar if it was progressive add four hours to that and blistered fingers
Such an incredible piece of writing, not even to mention the actual playing
The way the guitars are harmonizing with each other is blowing my mind
Only In Metalocalypse Can You Witness A Horse/Man, Bird/Man, Sky Battle With Awesome Guitar Solos And Riffs Along With Magic Harry Potter Like Bolts Flying Past One Another And Originating Out Of The Guitars Themselves. Fucking Hilarious And Sick.
that is the most true comment ive seen in forever. haha
WHY DO YOU CAPITALIZE EVERY WORD?
don't forget the victorian setup with a blend of classical/neoclassical, brilliance at it's finest!
Reverend Anton I'm gonna take a guess and say that he was using an iphone with the option to automatically capitalize or something like that.
My favourite part os the transition from Baroque to Power Metal.
Mine too!
they sound so good together its crazy...
This is basically Goku vs. Vegeta.
Except not as gay and metal af
This is not Goku level.
This is Saitama level.
TheSuperMerc No this is like Skwisgaar vs. Toki
@@Shimamon27 This isnt Saitama level
This is Gold Experience Requiem level.
TheSuperMerc ...pretty much!
What an earnest, young gentleman. I hope he makes it big in the band
I only just noticed this but Toki's shadow is literally a hawk at the start of this scene!
I think it's supposed to be a falcon because of their guitar naming conventions. Skwisgaar has the Snow Horse Explorer here (later he has the Thunder Horse Explorer) and Toki's white flying V Guitar that he had in one episode is called Snow Falcon.
@@TritonGalaktikon I'm not good at identifying birds XD
Toki is just adorable.
I'm kinda sad that I feel there will never be a segment like this again. The dynamics of the two, the symbolism, every movement synchronized, the fucking pinkies at 1:56. Absolute masterclass.
I absolutely love how at his intro he could've just said "anyway" and continue to rhyme but they went with "Anyhow"
Soooo many things I have to go back and watch now. GG Josh.
This is the greatest battle ever
A testament to skill vs talent, but a very well fought duel.
still gives me goosebumps :D
I remember when I was a kid, I used to watch almost every cartoon and anime the tv can offer, bugs bunny, martin mystery, family guy, everything. One day I was watching tv but I forgot what show I was watching, this show aired next. I had no idea it was a metal show that's not intended for children. My family didn't mind at all. This episode was the one that played when I first watched it. I got so into the music and I couldn't stop thinking about how awesome it was! I believe this part in particular got me into metal 🤘🔥
Everyone gangster until the guitars start arguing with eachother
I love that back and forth at 2:14, get my blood pumping
Gotta love how Toki being Norweigian has a Power Metal singing voice.
2:23 oh man, sends chills down my spine everytime.
I remember when I first heard this back when doom star requiem first aired; the hair on my arms stood straight up. Still get that feeling, especially at 2:15
I love how when Swissgar turns to a Centaur he looks back and realizes Toki (as a man/falcon) is catching up to him. Swissgar never had to play so hard against someone before.
2:15 goes insanely hard
It's so badass my eyes are still flaming
2023! still listening this as an ultimate fuel!
I'm a simple man I see a man riding a giant eagle with a lightning guitar I click
They played this on the BabyKlok tour! Hearing it live was 🔥🔥🔥
2:25 - My little pony, my little pony, ahaahhahaha
:)
Brendan Smalls probably had a lot of fun in the studio.
That right there is definite proof.
when they go classical is when it did it for me
It hurts so many years later knowing how this duel never resumed. It ended so anticlimactically.
New movie is in preproduction
Baroque Metal... that's Brutal
40 years of Metal fandom, and this is my favorite piece ever...I can't put my finger on it, but it moves me every time...
This is what me and my friends thought we looked like playing guitar hero together.
When it cuts from a big laser battle to a gentle Victorian era scene gets me every time. lol
I like to imagine how this played out in IRL since neither of their guitars are plugged in. Just string pings
Murderface look so...fitting without a mustache
No-no-no, it's cursed. Go back!
@@DontStopMeGaLo THIS IS YOUR REALITY.
My favorite thing about this is they animated the hand positions correctly and I love it
Dude this show brings me back I loved this show so much and dude I might just try to watch it again
As awesome as this is on the guitar, the truth is that Hoglan fucking MURDERED those drums in amazing ways to accent the whole thing, do incredible stuff, and STILL somehow be third-fiddle.
SOMEONE KEEPS UP KNOCKING
SOMEONE'S AT THE DOOR
LET THEM IN RIGHT NOW
FEELS TO BE ONE MORE
@@InjusticeFalls Awright...
You seem so nice. It's a shames that you must go downs this waaaaays...
I got to see this live, incredible and epic!
That was f🎸cking brutal.