Meet the all-Flanders band -- Okilly Dokilly!

Dear readers, Ed. thinks I owe you an explanation for the dearth of posts this month. It could be the heat, but the main truth is that I'm tired of reading, writing and ranting about the same old subjects: Donald Trump and the 16 dwarves, Obama's wonderful post-racial America, and even the stench of the Canadian election. Not to mention MH370, the Muslim invasion of Europe, Planned Anti-parenthood, and the Formerly Catholic Church. I'll go on writing about those four out of a sense of duty.

I am suffering from weltschmerz, zeitgeist and bad sauerkraut. Nothing has excited me this month... until today, when I read on the Australian website RipItUp about a brand new group called Okilly Dokilly. That's right. They're the world's first (and probably last) Ned Flanders-themed metal band.

No, they're not standing in the Australian Outback. They hail from Phoenix AZ. And here's what their leader -- Head Ned, natch! -- says about how they came up with the Flanders theme, just last month..
 "Myself and our drummer [Bled Ned] were in line at a grocery store, entertaining ourselves by coming up with really cutesy names for really hardcore, brutal bands. The name Okilly Dokilly came up and was very funny to us. [So] we ran with it. I contacted a few friends and here we are. Most of us have played in other bands around our hometown."

So they've got the name, got the outfits, got the moustaches (more or less). What about the music? Head Ned told RipItUp that the metal -- or "Nedal" -- music sounds "Not as fast as Bartcore, a little cleaner than Krusty Punk, and not as heavy as Homer J. Nedal is a happy medium in the Simpscene. This is definitely the heaviest-sounding project any of us Neds have done."

But why read about it when you can hear a demo by clicking right here. You're welcome, fanerinos!