Required listening from the week in music.

"The Dethalbum II" is the highly anticipated (by Adult Swim nerds anyway) second album from Dethklok, the fictional metal band from the hit show "Metalocalypse." Now if only Dethklok would team up with Gorillaz to play a benefit show with Josie and the Pussycats. That would be the greatest cartoon of all time.

Also in stores this week:
-- "Black Gives Way to Blue" is the first Alice in Chains album since the 2002 death of frontman Layne Staley. Unless the new singer has vocals that sound like sandpaper, we'll take a pass.
-- In other defunct '90s band news, "Through the Devil Softly," from former Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval, will take you back to your angsty, "My So Called Life"-watching days.
-- "Closer to the Bone," Kris Kristofferson's first album since 2006's "This Old Road," will do nicely toward our goal of working in yet another reference to the grizzled "Blade" star.