I'll admit it was a pleasure speaking with Metalocalypse creator/musician/voice actor extraordinaire Brendon Small: he is, after all, who I want to be when I grow up. You can imagine my paroxysms of white-hot jealousy when a friend got a gig writing for the show—hi Dani—but you have to understand, for the better part of the last decade, I've held Small's television work in the highest regard. I'm often in awe of the career of the former lead of the classic Adult Swim staple Home Movies seemingly without effort jumps between his work on TV, live performances for a virtual version of his metal creation Dethklok, and wherever else he might pop up at any given time.
Home Movies featured Small as Brendon Small, grade school student and amateur filmmaker whose weekly stories typically centered on his small crew's attempts to either make a movie or actively avoid making one (Brendon the character was somewhat ambivalent about the whole thing at times). Metalocalypse is in many ways a spiritual (if not tonal) successor to Home Movies in that it's about the biggest band in the world, Dethklok, and their own rocky relationship with the act of making music, performing, and generally relating to the billions of people who want a piece of them.
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![](http://geek-news.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/luda1.jpg "Chris \\"Ludacris\\" Bridges")
