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Aging Headbangers Escape Nursing Home To Hit Heavy Metal Festival

 

Managers of a German nursing home began to panic when they couldn’t find a pair of elderly friends anywhere on the grounds. Police later discovered the men “disoriented and dazed”— at a heavy metal festival.

 

The unidentified pals left the home in the rural Dithmarschen district and likely hitchhiked and took public transit to travel 25 miles to the Wacken Open Air festival near Hamburg. The headbangers’ event is touted as the biggest metal festival in the world.

 

The two men, nabbed before dawn Saturday, were disappointed to miss the last day of the festival, which began Thursday.  But they were sent back to the home in a taxi — escorted by a patrol car, Deutsche Welle reported. 

 

“We had to explain to them why they had to go home,” Itzehoe police spokesman Peter Berndt told The Washington Post. “But in the end, they went back voluntarily.”

 

Festival organizers apparently loved their escapade and paid homage to the aging metalheads — without naming them — by noting on the event’s Twitter site that there’s “no discrimination” against seniors ... “because you’re never too old to rock.”

 

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Saw these guys open for Pantera, sometime around the late '90s early 2000. The singer Ben Falgoust says the band name. I thought he said Soul and Cream. I thought, what a dumb name for a metal band. Looked everywhere for a Soul and Cream album. Never found it. It was probably a year after that I finally figured out it was Soilent Green

 

 

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This made me laugh. 

 

This write-up, from the WP, the heavy metal band Okilly Dokilly.  They dress like Ned Flanders, right down to the wire rim glasses and the Ned moustache, and their lyrics - and very name - are inspired by Homer Simpson's next door neighbor.

 

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In the music world, heavy metal comes in many different forms. There’s black metal, death metal — and even a subgenre inspired by Ned Flanders.

Yes, Ned Flanders — the ultra-religious, clean-cut character on TV’s “The Simpsons,” known for his cheery “Hi-Diddly-Ho” and “Okily Dokily” catchphrases that are bemoaned by next-door neighbor Homer Simpson. The cheeky genre’s name is Nedal, a sound coined and — for now — solely produced by Phoenix band Okilly Dokilly, which will perform at DC9 on Wednesday.

 

Okilly Dokilly harnesses the abrasive sonic elements of sludge metal, akin to early Black Sabbath and Alice in Chains, but eschews doom-and-gloom lyrics in favor of quotes from the neighborly, overly friendly Flanders. As it turns out, a “Simpsons” metal band can indeed procure a large, dedicated fan base, and no one is more surprised than the lead singer himself, Head Ned.

 

“When we first started the band, we didn’t think we’d have much of an audience,” says Head Ned, who co-founded the quintet in 2015. But within a week after Okilly Dokilly released some demo tracks on Bandcamp that same year, the tunes garnered roughly a million streams and the band’s newly created Facebook page amassed 25,000 fans.

 

The concept for Okilly Dokilly started as something of a gag. Head Ned wanted to form a metal band, but under the guise of something more playful and totally divergent from the genre’s brutal trappings. The group’s latest self-release, “Howdilly Twodilly,” the follow-up to 2016 debut album “Howdilly Doodilly,” is a testament to how this off-kilter juxtaposition comes together in a harmonious way. All of the record’s 11 songs are packed with references to and sayings from the God-loving “Simpsons” character, yet they paint Flanders in a much different light.

 

“One thing that I look for when finding quotes is that if Ned Flanders says something out of context, how heavy metal is it?” Head Ned says. To find quotes for the new record, Head Ned went back and watched the first 10 seasons of the long-running animated series before writing the songs.

 

Complementing the music is the band’s complete dedication to looking the part. All five members, including drummer Dread Ned, guitarist Shred Ned, bassist Bed Ned and keyboardist Zed Ned, sport Flanders’ hallmark green sweater, crisp pink polo, round glasses and, of course, his neatly trimmed mustache onstage. At shows, their fans often rise to the occasion and wear the same costume. Okilly Dokilly refers to these superfans as “Bonus Neds.”

 

 

The rest here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/2019/04/10/meet-okilly-dokilly-ned-flanders-inspired-metal-band-set-play-dc/?utm_term=.068c603ead7a

 

 

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New Study Advises Against Listening To Heavy Metal While Driving

 

I don't know about you, but when I am barreling down a highway (at the speed limit  of 65mph of course), nothing helps keep me going like blasting Metallica's "Battery" or anything off Pantera's Far Beyond Driven album. But a new study is claiming that playing heavy metal may hinder your driving ability. Say whaaa?

 

Auto Express magazine and IAM RoadSmart, a UK charity that claims to have “spent more than 60 years making our roads safer by improving driver and rider skills through coaching and education,” ran a test to see if the type of music you play in your car affects your driving. Here are the rules:

 

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During the test, consumer reporter Tristan Shale-Hester was tasked with undertaking two simulated precision laps of the Grand Prix track Red Bull Ring in Austria while listening to songs at full volume from four different genres of music – thrash metal, hip-pop, classical and pop.

 

The two-lap test involved fast acceleration, a series of technically challenging corners and a speed-limited zone, completed by a controlled stop on the finish line at the end of the second lap.

 

The first run was done with no music and the timing was four minutes at 34 seconds.

 

Then, Tristian tried the lap while Slipknot's (sic) was blasting and was a "stgaggering" 14 seconds slower and his throttle movements were more jagged. Tristain "admitted listening to Slipknot made it harder to concentrate on the circuit layout. "

 

Then, they played some classical music in the form of Bach and he was still 12 seconds slower than his control lap, and dropped to 35mph in a 50 zone.

 

When playing the pop hit "Shake it Off" by Taylor Swift, he was only two seconds slower than his control time and this was his smoothest ride yet.

 

Finally, playing hip hop – Kendric Lamar's "Humble" to be specific – resulted in Tristian just being one second slower.

 

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So my thought about this is, regardless of the music playing, wouldn't his time improve just from having more experience and familiarity with the car and course?

 

 

 

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