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Metalocalypse Creator to EP game-based WW2 Dino-Fighting Series; Multi-Platform Project Uses Valve’s Source Filmmaker Software for Simultaneous Game and Series Production (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 Prime-time animation label Icehouse® will partner with game developer 800 North and Metalocalypse creator Tommy Blacha to develop the hit indie video game Dino D-Day into an animated series, Icehouse Creative Director Darragh O’Connell announced today. Icehouse’s Gregory R. Little and...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A unique group of musicians -- and Queen fans -- will come together to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Freddie Mercury's passing with The Show Must Go On -- a live performance of the music of Queen -- on November 9th at The Roxy Theatre. All proceeds from the concert and memorabilia auction will be donated to AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), to help combat the disease that took Freddie from this world. In November 1991, the world...

Titmouse Inc. Launches Titmouse Games with original console game Seven Haunted Seas and more HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Titmouse Inc., the creative force behind Metalocalypse, one of Cartoon Network's highest rated Adult Swim animated-series, announced today, the creation of its own original game development studio, Titmouse Games. Whether you know their name or not, you know their work. Animators at Titmouse are the masterminds behind cult favorites like Avatar: The...

One way to gauge anything's prominence in pop culture is if there's been a cartoon made about it. That means metal is again part of America's cultural weave, at least for males 18-35, thanks to "Metalocalypse," Adult Swim's series about the dysfunctional and ultraviolent exploits of impossibly popular death-metal band Dethklok. Call it tongue-ripped-away-from-cheek humor, with the series currently approaching the end of its second season. But there's another level of cultural saturation:...

By Mike Daniel, The Dallas Morning News Jul. 4--One way to gauge anything's prominence in pop culture is if there's been a cartoon made about it. That means metal is again part of America's cultural weave, at least for males 18-35, thanks to Metalocalypse, Adult Swim's series about the dysfunctional and ultraviolent exploits of impossibly popular death-metal band Dethklok. Call it tongue-ripped-away-from- cheek humor, with the series currently approaching the end of its second season....

By Dave Wedge, Boston Herald Jun. 23--Death metal is usually serious business. But Emerson College alum Brendon Small figured there was room alongside all the upside-down crosses, pentagrams and bloody goat heads for a little humor. Turns out he was more right than he ever imagined. "I didn't know whether people would dig it or not," said Small, creator of the animated black metal band Dethklok, from a recent tour stop in Tempe, Ariz. "You just do what you like, and if people like it,...