The name of the grocery store in the first episode is "Fintroll's" a reference to the Finnish folk-metal band Finntroll. Other references to metal bands include the restaurants "Burzum" and "Dimmu Burger" (as a reference to "Dimmu Borgir") and the hardware store "Gorgoroth".
The series was originally named Death Clock Metalocalypse. Due to the name "Death Clock" already copyrighted, the name was then changed to Dethklok Metalocalypse. To prevent confusion the name was then shortened to Metalocalypse (the band is still named Dethklok).
Part way through the first season of the show, the band became endorsed by EMG pickups. Later episodes were changed to reflect the endorsement, with all pickups on the guitars and basses being changed to EMG. However early episodes and the show's intro remained the same, with the guitars and bases using the original stock Gibson pickups.
Dr. Rockso's real name is Leonard Rockstein
The series creators had the final designs for most of the band members finished when the show went into production, except for Pickles, who went through twenty or more design concepts before finally settling on the current character.
In the first scene of the season 3 premiere, the members of young Dethklok appear signing on their record label. All the members of Dethklok are there except for Toki Wartooth, who has been replaced by an older looking person. Later, his name is revealed to be Magnus Hammersmith, who was fired after he attacked Nathan Explosion with a knife, and eventually replaced by Toki.
Dethklok play Gibson Guitars and Krank Amps exclusively. William Murderface plays a Gibson Thunderbird Studio 5-String Bass. Skwisgaar Skwigelf plays a Gibson X-Plorer (Explorer) guitar. Toki Wartooth plays a Gibson V-Factor (Flying V) guitar.
Members of San Francisco metal band Metallica, James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett voiced Fan #1 and Fan #2 in the episode "Curse of D." Michael Amott of Swedish metal band Arch Enemy has also lent his voice to a future episode, as have members of Seattle metal band Nevermore.
According to a behind the scenes video on AdultSwim.com, all guitar parts played by Dethklok are fret-accurate reproductions of Brandon Small's guitar playing. Originally Small had played the parts in front of a green screen and had sensors attached to his fingers for the animators to reproduce, but this way was scrapped in favor of the animators referencing video and photos to traditionally animate the guitar playing.
When Nathan Explosion yells over the loudspeaker at the grocery store, he makes references to three different Cannibal Corpse songs: "Rotted Body Landslide," "Every Bone Broken," and "Hammer Smashed Face."
When Dethklok talks about "blowing your brains out" would make a great album cover, they are referring to Norwegian black metal-band Mayhem's "Dawn of the Black Hearts" bootleg album. The cover artwork is a photo of band member "Dead" after he committed suicide in 1991, using a shotgun to his head.
This is the only episode in which Nathan Explosion actually sings.
There are several references to influential European black metal bands. The first is Burzums, the restaurant, which is a reference to Norwegian one-man band Burzum. Gorgoroth's Medical Supply references the Norwegian band Gorgoroth. Marduk's Putt & Stuff is named after the Swedish band Marduk.
The letter M featured in the 'DieForDethklok.com' emblem is actually a mirror-imaged version of the letter M used in the Metallica logo.
One of the fans seen watching Pickles when he wakes up is an old man with a long beard who was seen in "Snakes n' Barrels" as being under the influence of Totally Awesome Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake.
The letter M featured in the 'DieForDethklok.com' emblem is actually a mirror-imaged version of the letter M used in the Metallica logo.
The assassin's number, 216, is 6 x 6 x 6.
The fast food burger place is named "Dimmu Burger" after the Norwegian symphonic black metal band "Dimmu Borgir".
The name of the school is Carpathian Forest which is yet another Norwegian black metal band.
The name of the High School is "Carpathian Forest High", it is supposed to be a joke with the name of the Doom Metal band called Carpathian Forest
Former president of Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, gives Toki the award for his work with kids.
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Grishnackh, the Studio head, got his name from Count Grishnackh (Varg Vikernes) a member of black metal band Mayhem.
The Blood Ocean production company is called Behemoth Pictures, after the Polish blackened death metal band Behemoth.
Movie veteran J. F. Amarth is named after the Swedish viking-themed melodic death metal band Amon Amarth.
The "Gulf of Danzig" is an old German name probably used in reference to the band Danzig. These areas now lie inside Poland and are called Gdansk and the Gulf of Gdansk.
On subtitles on the DVD, when Skwisgaar tells Toki: "I will sees you in Vallska, Toki" the subtitles read" I will see you in the house of Metal Gods"
Eric von Wiechlinghammer's facial features were based on Klaus Kinski.
Eric von Wiechlinghammer may have been based on Karl Lagerfeld, a German fashion designer, who is known for his eponymous extreme weight loss diet. He lost 92 lbs. in 13 months at age 63 in order to wear his favorite clothes.
Nathan Explosion's idea to move the boat over a mountain is from Fitzcarraldo.
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