Small wrote the music for the show, played all the guitar parts, and, because Dethklok’s lead guitarist, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, was a shredder, Small shredded as well. But Metalocalypse-a cartoon series about a fictional death metal band called Dethklok that’s bigger (and far more powerful) than the Beatles-made playing guitar front-and-center in Small’s professional life again.
“Had Metalocalypse not happened, I still would have been a geeky guitar guy sitting in my room, being very happy with just playing guitar for myself,” he says.
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Home Movies ran from 1999 to 2004, and Small’s next project, Metalocalypse, brought him full circle. And me and Eugene Mirman were roommates.” He was just a kid back then, but older than us. “I was doing standup over there at the Comedy Studio, which is on the third floor of the Chinese restaurant, the Hong Kong. “That’s how I got into all this TV baloney,” he says. Small’s experiences as a comedian led him to television and his first animated series, Home Movies, on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. I studied guitar and then I studied comedy by doing standup in Harvard Square.”
“Four of those were at Berklee, and the next four were across the river, in Cambridge, studying comedy.
“I spent eight years of my life in Boston,” he says. Brendon Small originally set out to be a guitarist-he even earned a degree from the Berklee College of Music-but along the way he changed gears and decided to focus on comedy.
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