"The world is still waiting." "Where is the new Dethklok album?" "There have been many delays, and the fans are restless." "Some fans have threatened to detonate a stolen nuclear device if they don't hear word of a new album soon." "The tension is thick, and the world could erupt into violence at any time." "Dethklok has promised a deadline." "God help us all if they fail to meet it." "PICKLES:" "O- o-o-o-o-h!" "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "Okay." "Ready?" "We're gonna roll on this one, okay?" "You weren't recording on that one?" "!" "No, we had a little buzz, so just hold on." "Okay, we're ready now, go!" "What the, hold on," "I got to catch my breath." "Just get it right, okay?" "Hey, can I stop you right there?" "Do you think you could just do it a little better, you know?" "Just" " I don't know - something sounds a little weird to me." "I can't put my finger on it." "How about I do this - I'll smash your face?" "!" "Maybe that's what it is - you have to think about smashing faces." "It'll sound better." "Do it again." "Go." "Are you guys eating out there?" "Am I smelling French toast?" "No." "No." "Just get the drums right, and we'll bring you out in a while." "But, yeah, it is French toast." "It's really good." " Go." "Rolling." " Go." "Go." "Wait, hold on." "Stop, stop, stop." "What?" "!" "What the." "I'm gonna check the mic placement, okay?" "Hey, seriously, if you don't get this one right," "I swear to God I'll kill you." "Now your life is at stake." "Hey, Pickles." "Nobody else is complaining like this, just you." "Get the out of here." "# Do anything for Dethklok # # Do anything for Dethklok #" "# Dethklok!" "Dethklok!" "Dethklok!" "Dethklok!" "#" "Yeah." "I'm still hearing that buzz." "Yeah." "It's ain't my pedals or my amps or my guitars or nothings." "Do a little experiment for me, will you?" "Give that guitar to your guitar tech right there." "Okays, but I don't see the poi " "It stops buzzings once I gives it to this guy." "No more buzz, huh?" "Do me a favor - just touch it, okay?" "With whats do you want me to touch the guitars?" "Hey, how about one of your fingers?" "Yeah, okay." "Hey!" "It ams buzzes when I points on it with my fingers." "Yeah, okay." "Now put the guitar back on." "Do a little jump in the air for me, okay?" "It ams not buzz as longs as I ams in the airs," "I think so." "Yeah, okay." "Put the guitar down." "Come on out." "You know, I've read about this kind of thing happening." "How the am I supposed to records this now?" "I'm ed, right?" "Not necessarily." "I have an idea." "Let's see... murder." "What rhymes with "murder"?" ""Sheep herder"?" "No." ""Sperder"? "Squirter"?" "Squir-ter, murd-ter... maybe." "My lord, a very large package has arrived for you from England." "Okay." "Wait." "Where in England?" "I believe the return address said "Camelot," my lord." "Oh, good!" "Good, good, good!" "Now I can start ing recording." "Here we are - shut out of the writing process again." "Same old song and dance." "# It's the same old song and dance, my friend #" "They're in there with writer's block, and we're out here brimming with ideas." "It's just not fair." "We can save this band with our music - our music." "What's we gonna writes about?" "There's a lot of stuff." "Think about it." "Like... food." "Uh, sleeping, taking a." "Just regular stuff." "Yeah, there ain'ts no songs abouts just taking it easy." "Back up." "What did you just say?" "I says there ain'ts no songs about taking it easy." "Taking it easy." "Taking it easy." "Taking it easy!" "Man, you're a genius, Toki!" "Get a pad of paper!" "We're gonna write a hit mother ing song!" "Stop, stop, stop." "What's the problem now?" "What's going on out there?" "It's just a little ...on the clanky side, okay?" "So?" "Can't you dial the clankiness out?" "I'm trying." "I'm doing everything I can." "Hey, how about we just take five on the whole suit-of-armor thing entirely?" "I think we should try a couple more things, you know?" "If you just, maybe, didn't shake around the mace as much, you know?" "It's a morning star, and you already know how I feel about that." "Nathan." "Just consider my earlier idea." "That's all I'm saying." "Put the whole band in armor?" "Put the whole band in armor." "Hey, Knubblers, ams we gonna doings this or what?" "Oh, yeah." "Hey, sorry guys, wrap for the day." "Cutting you loose." "We'll be back." "Where you guys going?" "Picking up food?" "Get Indian." "Gets sushi!" "Curry!" "Get ing French toast this time, you smokers." "I'm sick of French toast." "Uh, guys, we're not going out to get food." "Why not?" "!" "We ams goings to record my guitar parts." "And it may be the most dangerous things I ams evers done." "Thens whys you dos it?" "Because I ams a tones chaser." "That'd be funny if he said he was a squirrel chaser." "That'd be better, you know?" "Pickles." "Pickles." "Squirrel chaser." "Yeah, I know." "Now, you jump out, and I'm gonna play the track, and we'll be rolling, okay?" "!" "So stay focused and don't forget to pull the rip chord when you level off." "You got it?" "Uh-huh!" "You ready?" "!" "Let's do this!" "Aah!" "So this ams the button what makes it record, and this ams the button that makes it stops records, and this ams the buttons thats makes it erase" "Skwisgaar's guitar tracks." "Oh, no!" "Whats has I done?" "!" "I can't plays it." "It's too damns hard." "Skwisgaar's always makes it so hard." "Damns you, stupid, slow, stubby fingers." "Don't looks at me." "Oh, shucks!" "Whats am I gonna do?" "!" "Hey, Knubblers." "Still jazzed about hows great that recordings went, huh?" "Hey, you minds playing me some of those tracks." "Why dos that?" "Hey, let's all gets lunch - my treats!" "Let's gets out of this stuffy place!" "Let's just gets out of this room!" "Come on!" "Gos!" "Go!" "Here you go, Skwisgaar." "Whats the is thats sounds?" "Something is wrongs here!" "Isolates my guitar track." "I'm sorrys!" "It's my faults!" "I ed its all up." "Don't kicks me out of the band!" "I do anythings!" "I sucks your." "Toki, pulls yourself together!" "Skwisgaar, I should have backed those sessions up." "I mean I really should have." "Yeah, you should have backed those sessions up!" "You'd do well to keep quiet, all right?" "Oh Skwisgaar, you know what this means, right?" "Uh, guys, Murderface and Toki are waiting for you to meet them, they want to pitch their song to you." "Even if you don't like it, say something nice, okay?" "Whatever." "So, you guys are good?" "Yeah." "You got your coffee?" "Yeah." "Oh, thanks for the cups of coffee." "Oh, my pleasure." "My pleasure." "Toki, offer them the hot towels." "But they didn't " "Ams you guys wants the hots towel?" "No, we're good." "Let's do this." "We're just about done with the record." "We just want to get back to it, so, come on, just play it." "I just want to make everything perfect." "I want you to be comfortable." "It's fine." "Press play." "You don't have to be rude." "I mean, you're not rude." "Look, now I'm gonna play you this song that I wrote " "Toki helped." "And it would be great if you guys could keep your comments to yourself, just keep quiet while we play it and then not interject." "Whats would we interjects about?" "Man, just can it!" "So I can play you something that'll blow your mind, all right." "Something that I'm real " "What's it called?" "It's called "Takin' it Easy."" ""Takin'," like with an apostrophe?" "Yeah." "Instead of "taking."" "I said, can the interjections till after!" "Ready?" "Here goes." "Who engineered this?" "I just told you no interruptions!" "It just kills the momentum!" "Oh, right, right, right, sorry." "Toki engineered it, why?" "Nothing." "It sounds good so far." "Just play it." "Oh does it?" "What's do likes about it the most?" "Toki, shut up!" "God!" "Just listen!" "Mouth ing shut!" "Open mind!" "Ready to dig some really cool - shut the up and listen!" "# Now what you all doin' on a Saturday night?" "#" "# I'd rather be sleepin' than gettin' in a fight #" "# You rock it to the North #" "# You rock it to the East #" "# You rock it all around like a heavy metal beast #" "# You know you gotta # # You know you gotta #" "# You knows you gots to takes it #" "# You know you gotta #" "# Takin' it, takin' it #" "# Easy #" "# Takin' it, takin' it #" "# Easy #" "# Takin' it easy #" "# Takin' it, takin' it #" "Great, guys." "Yeah, you guys really nailed it." "You want to hear it again?" "No, I mean, uh..." "Okay, guys." "You obviously like it." "So let's just cut the man." "Is this thing going on the record or what?" "!" "No." "What?" "What the do you mean, "no"?" "!" "It don'ts sounds like a Dethkloks songs." "I mean, it's great stuffs but..." "Aha!" "They said it's great!" "Are you hearing this, Toki?" "This is you opening ing track, you deaf monkey pieces of." "Let's just quit while we're ahead." "Oh, you're ing bailing on me, too?" "!" "Fine!" "No, but if you screams at thems, thens you blows it!" "We can still talks them into it!" "Uh, no, you can't." "all of you!" "Yeah, you heard me!" "you, you, and you!" "What are you doing, Pickles?" "Are you filming me with your ing camera phone," "You mother er!" "Yeah, I'm sorry." "I'll put that away." "It's not appropriate." "So, wait." "Just so I understand." "You're all passing on "Takin' it Easy"?" "Yeah, we pass." "I can't even begin to believe that." "Well all of you" "I'm keeping that song for Planet Piss." "So I'ms in Planet Piss now?" "No you!" "You're not in Planet Piss, you ing greedy asshole!" "No!" "I'll ing sues you, Murderface, that's mine!" "What are you ing doing?" "!" "Are you gonna throw a basket of hot towels at me?" "Yes, I'm gonna throws a basket of hot towels at you!" "Well, I don't think you should!" "Why not?" "Because those towels are really hot!" "Don't ing throw hot towels, you lunatic!" "Millions of Dethklok fans have gathered around Mordhaus." "They are waiting for the chimney smoke to turn from white to black." "This will mean the new album is complete."