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Directed by | Brendon Small |
Screenplay by | Brendon Small |
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Based on | Metalocalypse by Brendon Small Tommy Blacha |
Produced by | Laura Allen |
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Edited by | Thomas Berkley |
Music by | Brendon Small |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar is a 2023 American direct-to-video adult animated fantasy film based on the Adult Swim animated series Metalocalypse. The film is written and directed by series co-creator Brendon Small and is a direct sequel to the 2013 special, Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem. The film was released on August 22, 2023, alongside Dethklok's fourth studio album, Dethalbum IV.[1][2] The film was dedicated to longtime series director, Jon Schnepp, who died in 2018 before production began.
The film is the third of Adult Swim's line of straight-to-video movies after Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm and The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, and was released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
The film picks up after the events of the Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem special, with Dethklok tasked to write the "song of salvation" in order to save the planet from impending doom,[3] and serves as the finale to the Metalocalypse series.