Okilly Dokilly

Okilly Dokilly is a heavy-metal band themed around the Simpsons character . Their name for this is "Nedal", and it is claimed to be a new subgenre of heavy metal.
==Members==
*Head Ned – lead vocalist
*Red Ned – synth player and backup vocalist
*Stead Ned – guitarist
*Thread Ned – bassist
*Bled Ned – drummer
*Dread Ned – drums
*Shred Ned – guitar
*Zed Ned – synth
*In 2022, Led Ned (guitar) and Bloodshed Ned (bass) joined as touring members
==History==
Okilly Dokilly "started as this goofy, crazy idea," whose members thought it would be "fun to show up at a couple shows and do a word-of-mouth kind of thing." The idea for Okilly Dokilly came from a conversation between Head Ned and Bled Ned, who were trying to think of ill-fitting names for a death metal band.
Head Ned described Ned Flanders as "the antithesis of a heavy metal icon." Okilly Dokilly "anticipated playing tiny, empty shows with a small demographic of people actually enjoying it." Okilly Dokilly fans are known as "Neighborinos."
In early 2022, the band announced an indefinite hiatus following April/May Tourdilly Do ‘22 farewell tour.
===Official acknowledgment===
In an interview, Head Ned said that he had expected the band to have copyright issues "immediately,” but pointed out that legal attention from Fox Broadcasting would anger "a whole bunch of ‘Simpsons’ fans" who were also Okilly Dokilly fans, thus "it wouldn’t be too beneficial to Fox."
In April 2019, the closing credits of the 659th episode of The Simpsons included the music video for the song "White Wine Spritzer." The song was inspired by a Season 10 episode, where Homer Simpson and Ned marry cocktail waitresses in Las Vegas. After the episode was broadcast, Head Ned was "very much in disbelief." Showrunner Al Jean found Okilly Dokilly via a Google alert.
==Albums==
===Howdilly Doodilly===
Okilly Dokilly's debut album, Howdilly Doodilly, was released on November 11, 2016. It is a combination of demoes and nine other new songs. During the recording, "their only goal was to make a record that was really brutalino."
===Howdilly Twodilly===
Okilly Dokilly's second album, Howdilly Twodilly, was released in March 2019. Head Ned had the task of re-watching the first 10 seasons of The Simpsons, and writing down the best lines.
==Genre and style==
Head Ned told that the band was “Not as fast as Bartcore, and a little cleaner than Krusty Punk,” and “Not as heavy as Homer J.ent — Nedal is a happy medium in the Simpscene.”
All Okilly Dokilly songs "are direct Ned quotes."
To match Ned, the members dress in pink button-down shirts, green sweaters, glasses, gray pants, and false moustaches, which led to challenges with "not bursting into flames, as metal as that would be.”
They start their emails with "Howdilly doodilly!, one of Ned's quotes.
==References==
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