- Oh my god. It's like death metal Batman.
- This is by far the weirdest thing I've ever watched.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (FBE) So today, we're going to be showing you a video
that is actually the third entry in a series that we covered before
on Teens React. - Interesting.
- Wow, Teens React. Okay, throwback.
- So we're actually gonna show you a bit of the first two videos
in the series to give you some context,
and then we'll jump into the third entry,
which is the new one. - Okay. Cool.
♪ (metal music) ♪
- Is this a Batman cartoon?
- I have no idea what this is.
- Wait. Is this Batmetal?
- Batmetal. Yeah, Batmetal. This is hype.
- AH! So many people tweeted this at me.
- (Batman) ♪ I am be dangerous now ♪ - Wow.
- What is this?
Oh my gosh.
- Oh my god. It's like death metal Batman.
- That's awesome.
- (Batman) I'm so [bleep] tough. - Yeah, you are.
This is hilarious.
- (sings along) ♪ I'm so [bleep] tough ♪
♪ I'm so [bleep] tough ♪ ♪ That's right ♪
- (Adam sings along) ♪ I'm so [bleep] tough ♪ ♪ I'm so [bleep] tough ♪
♪ That's right ♪ - (Batman) ♪ I'm so [bleep] tough ♪
♪ I'm so [bleep] tough ♪ ♪ That's right ♪
- (chuckles) You are [bleep] tough.
- What was that? I'm so confused.
- I have no idea what this is. I've never seen this before.
- (chuckles) I like it. It's pretty funny.
- Oh my gosh! That's hilarious.
This is a whole series?
- [Bleep] ridiculousness. Murmaider is next.
♪ (metal music) ♪
- Yeah, I remember. This was a bunch of weird cartoons.
- (Batman) ♪ There are no fingerprints deep underwater ♪
- (chuckles) - (Batman) ♪ Nothing to tie one
to a crime ♪ - Ariel, hey.
- Is that SpongeBob?
- Whoa. It's so dark.
- (Batman) ♪ Murmaider ♪ ♪ Murmaider ♪
- (chuckles) - Ugh!
This is pretty violent.
- Oh my gosh. Flounder!
Why is she using Flounder like that? Oh! Ugh.
- (Batman) ♪ Swords - check ♪
♪ Saws - check ♪ - (chuckles) "Check."
- I'm not gonna lie, sometimes I listen
to this in my free time.
- Okay, this is brilliant, you guys. What a mashup!
- (gasps)
- It's so violent, but it's so cute at the same time.
- Violent cartoon action there. (laughs)
- That was so weird. It's violent and just weird
and sexual, and it's like-- This is Ariel.
Why do you have to make it so weird?
- I wanna see what the new rendition is now.
- That's so amazing. What is it? Show me more.
♪ (metal music) ♪ - Is that Ninja--
That's April from Ninja Turtles.
- Batmobile coming through. - Oh my gosh,
the Mutant Ninja Turtles?
- Hey, Dethklok's in it.
- (Batman) ♪ My one-man show ♪ ♪ My name is murder ♪
- I love the twisted Batman.
- Oh! Just runs over everybody. Nice.
- Oh my gosh. The Nintendo Switch.
- It's definitely death metal, right?
- (chuckles) What's up with his lips? He has Kylie Jenner lips.
- I love the lips in it. It's so ridiculous.
- Dude, I like this. I would listen to this on Spotify.
- It's not what I would play when I'm chilling at home.
- Oh, Joker.
- (Batman) ♪ Awaken, awaken, awaken, awaken ♪
- They're waking him up? This is so random.
How do people think of these things?
- I like it. I mean, it's very creative.
- Harry Potter, too? Okay!
- Oh, Gravity Falls.
- (Batman) ♪ I'm the conjurer of demons ♪
- The lyrics are so scary.
- It's so evil and amazing.
- Overwatch. - Everyone's in it.
- Mr. Freeze.
- (chuckles) I can't follow. I'm trying to follow.
I really am, but I just can't.
- Oh, Jesus!
- Why is everything hypersexualized, though?
- Whoa. Whoa! Oh my god.
- This is like cartoon porn. This is so weird.
Oh my gosh! (gasps) Ah!
(chuckles) Same.
- Ah, Rick and Morty. - This is a mashup of everything
- The music is very nice. It's very good.
- Wow, even the double bass they got going on.
- It reminds me of a System of a Down concert going down right now.
- Honestly, if they did this live, I would go see it.
- (Batman) ♪ Awaken, awaken, awaken ♪
- How many times can he say "awaken"?
- (Batman) ♪ Rise up from... ♪ - What?
They're wrapping up all these different things
that have been in other Bat videos.
- The music and the animation are so well-produced. It's so good.
- (Batman) ♪ Rise ♪ ♪ Rise ♪
♪ Rice ♪ - (laughs)
- (laughs)
- This is by far the weird thing I've ever watched in my entire life.
- Rise, baby. - Ah, it's so good!
- Is he gonna wake up?
Oh! - Eww.
- (Robin) Well... [bleep]. - (chuckles)
- (Robin) You know, I just think about it
and maybe we try something with his DNA.
I mean, it's all over the place now.
- (Batman) I got better idea.
Boop, boop, boop... - (chuckles)
- (Batman) The only question is who is your favorite?
- Oh, those are all the Jokers! - Oh, wow.
All the different incarnations of Joker. That's awesome.
Oh my gosh! Oh, the high schooler in me
was loving this.
- That was the weird thing I've ever watched in my whole life.
- I can definitely appreciate there are some really funny moments
in there, but I can't say this is my kind of thing.
- That was intense. This is really good.
- Wow, that was a head spinner. That was amazing.
- There was so much going on. It was all over the place.
But the music was great, the animation was great.
And there were a lot of cameos.
- (FBE) So that was the series, Batmetal...
- Batmetal, okay.
- (FBE) ...created by the animation channel,
I believe it's pronounced ArhyBES. - Oh, okay.
I feel like I've seen clips of it just on the internet
and on social media, but I've never actually watched
a whole episode. It was a cool concept,
but it was just, like, there were times
where you were just like, "Okay, this is weird."
- I thought it was so well-done. Batman's such a dark character anyway.
I think that that works with the death metal,
the heavy metal kind of vibe.
- It was genius and brilliant and twisted and disturbing,
and I need to watch it again, 'cause there are so many
frickin' Easter eggs in there that I missed half of 'em.
- (FBE) So the series consists of Batmetal, Batmetal Returns,
and now Batmetal Forever. - Oh, that's funny.
So it's like the movies.
- (laughs and claps) That's hilarious. Of course.
- (FBE) One of the most interesting aspects of the series is the music.
The songs are actually not written for the series at all.
- What?! - It didn't really mesh
that well to me, so I think I could see that.
- (FBE) The first two songs were from a fictional metal band
called Dethklok. - Okay. That's a great name.
- They are from the show Metalocalypse.
And the most recent one was by one of Dethklok's creators,
Brendon Small. - Oh, nice.
- They're taking these songs and doing animation for the songs.
Dude, that's so awesome.
- (FBE) Do you like how the series continued with this tradition?
Or would you rather there have been an original composition
for this latest entry? - I mean, I think that it's cool
that they can adapt a video to a song
that's not meant for it. But I think that it would be easier
for people to follow along and maybe have a better storyline
if they did create the music for the video.
- I feel like they could've created their own music for it,
but I don't know, it was good. I loved it.
- It would be cool seeing in the future, the next rendition,
to see an original song made for it.
Sometimes animations could be limited,
because, you know, if it doesn't match up,
it's not gonna make sense. So what if he had an idea
of what he wants to do for the video and the music?
He could make literally whatever he wants.
- They're working together with the band
if they got the band's permission. Why not?
- No, it's better that they stick to the same thing.
It's organic, and if you try to force it
and come up with a song just so you can make another cartoon,
nobody wants that. - It's hard to take something
that people know or sounds familiar
or that already exists in the world and then create a universe off of it,
so I personally think that that's kind of interesting.
Everything about it is so original, but also everything about it
is derivative too, right?
So it's turning something you think you know upside down.
- It's a challenge. I think it's better,
because you've got to make all of this around this, you know?
So I think it's more creative, because you put more mind into it.
- It's Batmetal because it's Dethklok's music.
That's part of the funniness of the Batmetal genre,
or the Batmetal saga, I guess, is taking these songs
that aren't necessarily for Batman, but making them Batman songs.
- (FBE) So finally, as this is the third entry
in the Batmetal franchise, do you hope that there is a fourth,
or do you think it should remain a trilogy?
- You know, I would be happy if I never had to watch it again.
- I'd hope for the fourth one. I just wanna see what they add to it.
- They should keep going. Why not? It's entertaining.
- They should keep making more and more.
I don't see why they would stop, because it's really entertaining.
- At this point, I'd be excited for more.
You could do anything with this, so if you do more, awesome.
If not, I'm satisfied with what you've done.
- I'm hoping that the people that created this
continue to get plenty of inspiration out there
in the franchise world and the superhero world,
'cause it's pretty awesome. I'm down, man. I'm in.
- Thanks for watching this hardcore episode of Adults React
and shoutout to Martin Langseth.
- (raspily) Subscribe! And shoutout to brenna w.
- (raspily) I'm so [bleep] tough. I'm so [bleep] tough. Bye.
- (raspily) Hey, everybody. Ethan here from FBE.
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