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<\/p>\nMetalocalypse Fans, Get Amped\u2014Brendon Small’s Reverb Shop is Coming… – YouTube
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Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n Brendan Small of Dethklok and Metalocalypse fame is bringing the retailocalypse to Reverb, where he will be selling a ton of gear, including a bunch of metal guitars<\/a> that are unicorn rare.<\/p>\n These instruments have been all used in battle. Small has used some of them when scoring Metalocalypse. Others have been stage-played when Dethklok went out treading the boards with Mastodon. It\u2019s like Small says, they are part of cartoon history, used in the creation of the Adult Swim animated show.<\/p>\n Some of these instruments are one-of-one, such as the Ibanez<\/a> Iceman that was used to track the original Dethklok theme song \u2013 and what has subsequently been modded by Small\u2019s brother. What did he do? He took the frets off. That\u2019s right, plucked them out, turning it into a fretless guitar.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re not going to find a guitar like this anywhere,\u201d says Small. \u201cUnless you\u2019re at a dump site, or underneath a city in the catacombs of some crazy trashy place. A place of your nightmares.\u201d<\/p>\n (Image credit: Reverb)<\/p>\n If a fretless Iceman is a little too \u2018Paul Stanley turns jazz-fusion\u2019 for your tastes, rest assured there are more mainstream options. But what the heck, you\u2019re here for the Metalocalypse and Dethklok. Let\u2019s look at some of the crazier options, like the Gibson Thunderhorse, a Silverburst Explorer variant that was limited to just 250 units worldwide. This is a pristine example. It even has the cellophane on the pickguard.<\/p>\n \u201cClassic rock \u2019n\u2019 roll,\u201d is how Small describes it. Is this an electric guitar<\/a> for all seasons? \u201cYou can play everything from Cannibal Corpse to Steely Dan on this if you want to,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n Nice, the worlds of Reelin\u2019 In The Years and Hammer Smashed Face together at last \u2013 it is the shared universe we have been waiting for.<\/p>\n (Image credit: Reverb)<\/p>\n Modded rarities is a theme here, as it is with Small\u2019s Gibson E2 Explorer, a holdout from the \u201880s that has a middle-position doofer that will give you some out-of-phase weirdness.<\/p>\n \u201cI took it on tour when Dethklok co-headlined with Mastodon back in the 2000s,\u201d says Small. \u201cSomebody did some kind of a mod on it somewhere along the way so that when it\u2019s in the middle position you get that Brian May kind of phase-reversing thing. It\u2019s really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n (Image credit: Reverb)<\/p>\n What is really cool are the two prototype Epiphone guitars<\/a>, one a Dethklok Explorer with a crazy inlay on the fingerboard, the other (our favourite) evocatively titled the GhostHorse, which is another hot-rodded Explorer with a Floyd and a figured maple top\/veneer.<\/p>\n![\"Brendon](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/o8VmbGStuAWMUrxkzVZmGD.jpg\")
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