Spoilers for Dark Nights: Death Metal ahead!
DC Comics has released a brand-new music video trailer for the Deluxe Edition of the best-selling Dark Nights: Death Metal series, written by Scott Snyder with art by Greg Capullo. The series, and its subsequent tie-ins, proved popular with fans and critics alike and helped set the stage for the next age of the DC Universe's Infinite Frontier initiative.
The series was the culmination of a story Snyder had started in both the pages of Dark Nights Metal as well as Justice League; Snyder also drew on elements of his New 52 Batman run. The heroes of Earth learned of the existence of a Dark Multiverse, which, as the name implies, was a terrifying place free of hope. One of its inhabitants, The Batman Who Laughs, waged a one-man war on the heroes, gaining enough power to challenge Perpetua, the mother of the Multiverse. Heroes from across the multiverse were able to stop him, and thanks to Wonder Woman, the Multiverse was spared destruction by The Hands - Perpetua’s people, who exist in the greater Omniverse, leading to the currently ongoing Infinite Frontier.
DC has released a new music video trailer on its YouTube channel for the deluxe hardcover edition, available now. The trailer, featuring the song “Now You’ve Really Done It,” by Greg Puciato, Tyler Bates and Gil Sharone, showcases a CGI-Batman Who Laughs fighting Batman, interspersed with panels from the book featuring Wonder Woman, Nightwing, Sgt. Rock and other heroes. However, the highlight of the trailer may be The Batman Who Laughs shredding on his guitar while the multiverse burns around him.
DC Comics has released some unique promotional tie-ins for Dark Nights Death Metal. The first was a series of web-based videos featuring musicians and other pop culture figures bringing parts of the series to life. This trailer draws footage from that series. DC has also partnered with Loma Vista Records to release a special soundtrack for the book, featuring artists such as Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains and Chino Moreno of the Deftones. Tyler Bates, who helped write the song featured in the trailer, contributed to the other songs on the soundtrack as well. These promotional tie-ins collide in this trailer, providing fans with a fun look at this event.
Dark Nights: Death Metal brought to a head stories that had been a decade in the making and set the stage for Infinite Frontier. The trailer for the Deluxe Hardcover edition, using hard-rocking music and nightmarish visuals, sets the tone for the book perfectly.
Source: DC Comics