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Dude! It’s not “Dead Tongue,” it’s Deathtongue, the classic Heavy Metal band out of Bloom County! Bill T CatT on vocals/lead tongue, Hodge-Podge on drums, Steve Dallas on vocals/guitar, and THE Opus Penguin on Electric Tuba!!!
Run with the devil! Shout Satan’s might!
Deathtöngue! Deathtöngue! The beast rises tonight!
Aackthpth!
In the original Bloom County story arc, a woman’s young son had been exposed to the music of Deathtöngue and was going around singing these lyrics. . . and had also taken up occult practices and ended up turning Steve Dallas into a zucchini. ‘Twas all a parody of the heavy metal “satanic panic” of the ’80s. . .
Looks like Deathtöngue has been post-apocalyptically transformed into something more like Rammstein. Well *done*
That is so awesome that Jason worked that in there. Great fans too, who can explain the various clues, since nobody is going to get them all. A lot of Sunday comic aficionados are reading weapon brown. GO CHUCK!!
You know,even before I noticed translated the lyrics and said what comic strip they were from,I like to image it was a Rammstein song,because it just seems that practical.That and they are awesome.
@Ben: Milo Bloom also found out during the course of “investigative reporting” that when played backwards, one of their songs had a Beatlesque-hidden message – “Goooo to Schooool… Saaaay your Praaayyyers…” >;)
Everything’s so fantastic about this page: The sudden appearance of the wall of speakers, the small “click” frame, the translation puzzle in the third frame. It’s a peak moment in a series that’s already consistently amazing.
Not that my comment should add anything of value here but the music was actually was performed by Mucky Pup on the Flexidisc that was released with The Billy and the Boingers Bootleg
however the Germanese version of the song made me feel like I was 10 again
When I saw that it was in German, I thought you were working the Katzenjammer Kids in there; is that the case, or was the language change-up just a way to avoid being devoured by a pack of rabid lawyers?
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:08 pm
I do not get the reference to the music in the last panel. Are they from famous comics?
These people, Huey, Annie, etc are relentless.
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:09 pm
badass artwork though. really like the first panel. look at the size of Chuck’s wrists. He is a strong strong man.
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Did you just translate ‘Trogdor’ into German?
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:00 pm
From the Babelfish german-to-English translator:
They run with the devil
cry Satan’s hate
Dead tongue! Dead Tongue!
the dragon rises/rose at night
Don’t know how accurate that is, and don’t know what song that’s from
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Oh, man. And I thought Chuck was going to be serenaded with “Tomorrow”, which would be bad enough.
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:27 pm
James: You’re pretty accurate with the translation.
No idea what song it is.
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Pffththtbbl!
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Dude! It’s not “Dead Tongue,” it’s Deathtongue, the classic Heavy Metal band out of Bloom County! Bill T CatT on vocals/lead tongue, Hodge-Podge on drums, Steve Dallas on vocals/guitar, and THE Opus Penguin on Electric Tuba!!!
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Yep, that’s a “hurt locker,” alright.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:21 pm
The original lyrics were in a Bloom County strip:
Run with the devil! Shout Satan’s might!
Deathtöngue! Deathtöngue! The beast rises tonight!
Aackthpth!
In the original Bloom County story arc, a woman’s young son had been exposed to the music of Deathtöngue and was going around singing these lyrics. . . and had also taken up occult practices and ended up turning Steve Dallas into a zucchini. ‘Twas all a parody of the heavy metal “satanic panic” of the ’80s. . .
Looks like Deathtöngue has been post-apocalyptically transformed into something more like Rammstein. Well *done*
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:28 pm
That is so awesome that Jason worked that in there. Great fans too, who can explain the various clues, since nobody is going to get them all. A lot of Sunday comic aficionados are reading weapon brown. GO CHUCK!!
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Good job decrypting my pigin german, gang!
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I much preferred Deathtöngue to its hair-band reincarnation as Billy and the Boingers.
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 pm
The horror! Those aren’t Klipsch.
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:35 am
So, what are the odds the second that music started blaring ol Weapon Brown’s codename changed to something more like my name?
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:57 am
You know,even before I noticed translated the lyrics and said what comic strip they were from,I like to image it was a Rammstein song,because it just seems that practical.That and they are awesome.
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:17 pm
@Ben: Milo Bloom also found out during the course of “investigative reporting” that when played backwards, one of their songs had a Beatlesque-hidden message – “Goooo to Schooool… Saaaay your Praaayyyers…” >;)
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Everything’s so fantastic about this page: The sudden appearance of the wall of speakers, the small “click” frame, the translation puzzle in the third frame. It’s a peak moment in a series that’s already consistently amazing.
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:58 pm
At least it wasn’t Atomic Rooster
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Not that my comment should add anything of value here but the music was actually was performed by Mucky Pup on the Flexidisc that was released with The Billy and the Boingers Bootleg
however the Germanese version of the song made me feel like I was 10 again
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Mr. Yungbluth, I offer unto you my first born child. May you raise him to be a fine man.
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 pm
When I saw that it was in German, I thought you were working the Katzenjammer Kids in there; is that the case, or was the language change-up just a way to avoid being devoured by a pack of rabid lawyers?
‘Cause those katz can jam!
October 4th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Right, I can safely say I’d never have spotted that one in a million years. I don’t think Bloom County was ever syndicated down under.
October 4th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Monday is tomorrow. New update! Chuck has got to have some tricks up his sleeve. Go Chuck! Go Snoop!!
October 4th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Sweet Jesus…. A Deathtongue reference? JY… you leave me staggered.
October 4th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I was waaaaaaaaaaaay wrong on what I thought the “enjoy the music” reference was in the last post. This is better.
October 5th, 2009 at 5:24 am
holy shit I came back just in time! Phhbbbttt!! :p~
love those little skull notes.
October 5th, 2009 at 9:39 am
\It’s a small world after all . . .\ would have been even more effective, but it just wouldn’t have fit the atmosphere of the times.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
:Lights a Candle at the Altar of JY:
All COmic Blessings to the great Illustrator and Storyteller
:cue Chimes and Gongs 87 times:
OHMMMMMMMMM Dude that was Killer , Major fan here m, posted it on my Facebook page and a few of my m8′s love it.
:all praise the JY, JY is Awesomeness………:
November 11th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Deathtöngue is OK, but I was really hoping it’d be Beethoven, for a combined Peanuts/Clockwork Orange reference.