“When The Pick of Destiny was released it was a bomb,” Jack Black (nay, JB) sings. “And all the critics said that the D was done.” This is true enough — after a surprisingly successful debut album in 2001, Tenacious D (Black and cohort Kyle Glass, a.k.a. KG) followed it up a few years later with a feature-length movie and concept album/soundtrack to the film, and neither film nor album were met with the same level of enthusiasm as the breakthrough. Black, of course, was hardly struggling for work — he went on to pursue a string of hit (and not-so-hit) movies, leaving The D on the back-burner for a while.

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