One of many best elements of South Park is its constantly intelligent and affectionate incorporation of music. Be it by means of ancillary recordings, honest visitor spots, tongue-in-cheek jabs or another form of reference, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s transgressive cartoon leaves nearly no well-liked style or artist untouched — particularly not heavy metallic.
Steel has been an integral a part of the present’s content material and spirit because it premiered again in 1997 (with a theme tune from various/funk metallic troupe Primus, in fact). In any case, each the collection and the model exude anti-establishment sentiments, raucous behaviors and over-the-top theatricality – amongst different similarities – so it’s a match made in heaven.
From conventional appearances and ironic cameos to borrowed tracks and authentic compositions, listed below are 11 of the perfect occasions South Park bowed right down to its metallic overlords.
Loudwire contributor Jordan Blum is a college English professor and writer of ‘Opeth: Each Music Each Album’, ‘Dream Theater: Each Album Each Music’ and ‘Jethro Tull: Each Music Each Album.’
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Ozzy’s Efficiency at “Chef Support” (S2, E14)
Though 2002’s My Future Self ‘n’ Me briefly mentions early 2000s hit actuality present The Osbournes, it’s this episode that correctly honors the Prince of Darkness. Principally, South Park’s lovably inappropriate cafeteria sage, Chef, owes cash to a report firm, so he holds a profit live performance that includes artists whose careers he assisted.
Ozzy is on the invoice, and, after telling an endearing story about how Chef inadvertently prompted him to chunk the pinnacle off a bat, he – alongside The Crystal Methodology, DMX and Ol’ Soiled Bastard – sings “Vapor Path (Nowhere to Run).” Naturally, Ozzy ends the set within the good approach — by ravenously devouring Kenny’s head.
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Korn Go on a Haunted Hunt in “Korn’s Groovy Pirate Ghost Thriller” (S3, E10)
It was inevitable for Parker and Stone to satirize Scooby-Doo, and what higher band to assist do it than Korn? Initially, the group (voicing themselves) heads to Colorado to be part of the city’s “Halloween Hang-out.” Sadly, they crash their Thriller Machine-esque van after they see pirate ghosts. Predictably, they find yourself becoming a member of Cartman, Kenny, Stan and Kyle of their investigation, and upon fixing it, the quintet play “Falling Away from Me.”
It’s a artful option to premiere a tune from 1999’s Points whereas stating that many musicians are – as Jonathan Davis declares – “simply regular guys.”
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Dio Performs “Holy Diver” in “Hooked on Monkey Fonics” (S3, E12)
You’ll be able to’t showcase the metallic style with out together with Ronnie James Dio, and fortuitously, South Park didn’t wait lengthy earlier than bringing him on board. Particularly, Dio reveals up two episodes after Korn, whereby he (with drummer Phonics Monkey) belts out “Holy Diver” at a South Park Elementary dance. Parker gives an amusing impersonation of Dio earlier than they begin, too.
In a 2002 chat with Actuality Test TV, Dio revealed that he was reluctant to do it as a result of he anticipated the creators to “crucify” him. As soon as he was assured that they had been “actual deal followers,” although, he gave in. He elaborates: “I believed to myself, Properly, if you wish to be an American icon, you higher allow them to do it. They usually did, and I used to be knocked out.”
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Slayer’s “Raining Blood” All Over “Die Hippie, Die” (S9, E2)
A number of seasons later, Slayer obtained a nod by way of their signature monitor. As its title implies, this one sees Cartman eradicating hippies. He even warns the mayor about how an upcoming music competition will generate a plague of them however to no avail. Finally, that’s what occurs, and when different techniques don’t work, Cartman performs “Raining Blood” over the audio system after drilling by means of a crowd of them in a death-bringing automobile as a result of “hippies can’t stand dying metallic.” To his level, they run away and the city is saved.
When requested about it, guitarist Kerry King replied: “It was good to see [it] being put to good use. If we are able to horrify some hippies, we’ve achieved our job.”
We received’t even get hung up on calling Slayer “dying metallic.” Shut sufficient and, in addition to, it makes for higher TV.
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Preventing to Disturbed’s “Down with the Illness” in “With Apologies to Jesse Jackson” (S11, E1)
South Park is thought for mixing absurdity with political incorrectness, because the controversial “With Apologies to Jesse Jackson” illustrates. Following Randy Marsh’s racist reply (warning: sturdy, offensive language) on Wheel of Fortune, South Park Elementary invitations Dr. David Nelson (an writer with dwarfism) to talk to college students about sensitivity.
Predictably, the at all times amoral Cartman laughs at him, resulting in a contentious rivalry between the 2 that entails loads of name-callings. Their feud culminates in a shirtless schoolyard brawl as “Down with the Illness” performs. It doesn’t final lengthy – Cartman beats him after just a few seconds – nevertheless it’s a hilariously apropos tune alternative nonetheless.
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A number of Steel Songs in “Guitar Queer-O” (S11, E13)
In typical trend, this 2007 episode lampooned the then-immensely well-liked Guitar Hero video video games. (Truly, it aired a few week after Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock launched, so it was fairly well timed.)
Poking enjoyable on the superficiality and addictiveness of the collection, it noticed Kyle and Stan jeopardizing their friendship over which considered one of them turned extra well-liked and expert. Expectedly, they replicate a wide selection of songs alongside the way in which, corresponding to Poison’s “Each Rose Has Its Thorn,” Warrant’s “Cherry Pie,” Rage Towards the Machine’s “Killing within the Title,” Buckethead’s “Jordan” and Skid Row’s “I Bear in mind You.” What a stellar soundtrack.
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The Story of Vünter Slauche (Slash) in “Crack Child Athletic Affiliation” (S15, E5)
Slash had a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo as Randy’s guitarist in Season 7’s “I’m a Little Bit Nation,” however he receives extra consideration right here. In reality, a lot of the runtime revolves across the children discovering – upon making an attempt to recruit him to play the halftime present at a crack child brawl – that the guitarist comes from a Dutch fable referred to as Vünter Slauche. Like Santa Claus, his fable has been reinvented throughout a number of cultures and eras, and the youngsters’s dad and mom gown up as him to maintain the lore alive. Ingeniously, it ends with Stan and Kyle encountering Slash’s famed hat and instrument (so their religion in him is restored).
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Ten Years of Van Halen in “Ginger Cow” (S17, E6)
Right here, the 4 important boys get embroiled in a worldwide mishap involving a “ginger cow” (full with freckles and a crimson wig) and the theological divinations of Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Finally, these non secular leaders reconcile, and in an occasion of ridiculously imaginative exaggeration, their symbols are mixed to kind the Van Halen emblem. Moreover, this unity instigates “ten years of Van Halen,” and at an out of doors celebration in Jerusalem, David Lee Roth and firm take the stage to play “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love” and “Sizzling for Instructor.”
If solely it had been that simple for metallic to essentially resolve worldwide conflicts.
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Worshiping Iron Maiden’s “The Variety of the Beast” in “Sons a Witches” (S21, E6)
Because the city commemorates Halloween, quite a few patriarchs – together with Randy and Kyle’s dad Gerald Broflovski – collect atop a mountain to social gathering in honor of “Witch Week.” As soon as there, they drink whiskey, smoke crack cocaine and sing a chant about placing spells on their bosses and wives. All of the whereas, “The Variety of the Beast” supplies the best accompaniment.
True, it will’ve been cooler if Iron Maiden confirmed up and have become part of the plot, however the mere addition of the monitor is satisfying (particularly because it preempts newcomer Clyde Duncan studying from a legit spellbook and turning himself right into a malevolent, sure, witch).
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Crimson Daybreak Cowl Dying Fetus and Demise Decline in “Band in China” (S23, E2)
There have been a number of cases of South Park characters beginning their very own teams, however none have matched the brutality of dying metallic troupe Crimson Daybreak. It’s fronted by Stan – who fashioned it in defiance of his father’s marijuana enterprise, Tegridy Farms – and stuffed out by Butters, Kenny and Jimmy.
At Autumn Fest, the remainder of the city eagerly awaits their first efficiency, solely to be horrified after they launch into Demise Decline’s “Ineffective Sacrifice.” Later, they rehearse Dying Fetus’ “Second Pores and skin,” and the stylized modifying (coupled with the notion that these sounds are coming from kids) makes it very humorous.
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DVDA & James Hetfield Train Kenny that “Hell Isn’t Good” in South Park: Larger, Longer & Uncut
Even 1998’s movie adaption of South Park wanted some metallic. Though Lars Ulrich appeared in “201” and all of Metallica – plus Judas Priest – had been in “Christian Rock Arduous,” neither manifestation rivals this one.
Basically, Kenny pushes a button to enter Heaven however is denied entry; afterward, he is caught in a twister of fireside and demons that take him to the Underworld as James Hetfield sings “Hell Isn’t Good.” What’s extra, Hetfield’s backed by DVDA (Double Vaginal Double Anal), Parker and Stone’s hardcore punk rock band with workers members Bruce Howell and D.A. Younger. How’s that for displaying like to metallic?
