Behind the Scenes: Lego House Video

Here's a little something fun. I love both of these guys!

~DJ Blooming Psycho~

Frankie Stew: They Say

Here is an interview with Frankie if you'd like to know a little more about this low-key, down to earth young rapper from the U.K.

~DJ Seth~

A to Z Blogging Challenge 2015: U is for Understated

So much of the music scene is flashy. It's refreshing to find artists like young Hannah Trigwell, whose stripped-down performances focus on their music rather than on themselves. Sometimes an understated presentation is the most effective, because there is no splashy spectacle to detract from the delivery of the words and melody.

~DJ Helena~

A to Z Challenge 2015: Universal Concepts: S is for Sad Songs

Sad songs: we love them, but we hope we never have to live them.

I'm one of the lucky few who have had a romance that has lasted since my teen years up into my middle years and is still going strong. Most early romances lead to heartbreak, and that's the sad truth.

Listening to and singing sad songs can be cathartic. Sing and cry, if that's what you need to do. Write a sad song or poem of your own. Don't be ashamed! Let your feelings show.

~DJ Sadie~

The South: Second Coming

The Jam: Sound Affects

The Jam: Aunties and Uncles

Ian Dury: There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards

Ellie Goulding: Anything Could Happen

Behind the Scenes:

The Maccabees: Went Away

Knowledge and Wisdom: So Many Yout's

Indie Reggae/hip hop from London-based Knowledge and Wisdom.

Here is their Bandmine page.

~DJ Koni~

Robyn Hitchcock: Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl

DJ Wanda sometimes wishes she was Dr. Frank N. Furter. She would live a life of wild abandon, creating hunky men for her pleasure in her creepy mad scientist castle and basically not giving a flying flock of seagulls what anyone thought. She also wouldn't have to worry about crap like working a regular job, and if her car broke down, she'd just call in a Satanic Mechanic.

~DJ Wanda~

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl

So I could uuup myself in the shower

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl

So I could uuup myself in the shower

Been on my own so long

I can't tell left from wrong

Bloody red bats squelching offal

Foaming mutilations in the kiss of death

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl

So I could upppp myself in the shower

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl

So I could uuup myself in the shower

Been on my own all night

I can't tell left from right

Baby come back, give me fever

Cauterize this passion with a blood red kiss

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl

So I could uppp myself in the shower

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl

So I could uup/ stab myself in the shower

Sometimes I wish I was a

So I could

Monday's Music: Top 40 Hits From 1963

Hi, I'm DJ Rose. The cool tattoo shown above is on someone else's arm. I actually don't have any tattoos, but if I did, I'd like one similar to this one.

The theme for this week appears to be top 40 hits from the rock and roll era. I was born February 14, 1963, which makes me an old Rose. I've chosen the top five songs from February 1963. I hope you enjoy them!

~DJ Rose~

Frank is 76 years old and is still performing.

Jet Harris died 18 March 2011 at the age of 71. Tony Meehan died 8 November 2005 at the age of 62.

Ah, the Beatles! Ringo is 74 years old and still performing. Paul is 72 years old and still performing. John Lennon was murdered on 8 December 1980 at the age of 40. George Harrison died on 29 November 2001 at the age of 58 from lung cancer.

Cliff is 73 years old and still performing.

Del died on 8 February 1990 at the age of 55

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Social Blogger Post #1: Meet DJ Illin' Illsa

The Social Blogger blog hop is hosted by Anna of Herding Cats and Burning Soup. Click here to check out her most recent post. I'm going to follow her format for a first Social Blogger post.

I'm DJ Illin' Illsa. Here are five items of interest about me. There will be a quiz later! ;-)

• Like the other members of Team KHEL 666/Team Netherworld, I live with mental illness. I have type 2 bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and PTSD. I also have OCD. As I commented at Anna's blog: I don't have food issues and I'm not a germophobe. I have trouble throwing things out because of an overwhelming anxiety that I might need it later. I have boxes and bags of crap that I sometimes force myself to go through. It makes me very anxious. Also, I'm a picture straightener, and I can't stand to see mismatched pushpins (two different colors.) It drives me crazy! So yes, I have a touch of OCD! In addition, although I'm not afraid of any numbers, there are certain numbers that I like particularly. If I have to make a choice between ten items, for instance, I'll choose the fifth or the seventh.
• My father died in a motorcycle crash when I was fifteen. He was just 38 years old. (Would have been 38 in 2 weeks. He died on July 16. His birthday would have been August 2.) It's strange to me that I am now older than he ever got to be. His death was devastating to our family. I acted out a lot after his death. My older brother tried hard to be the "man of the family," but he was only seventeen himself. I was hurting a lot, and I was out of control. I have since thanked my brother for everything he did during that difficult time. (P.S. I love you, Hank.)
• My real surname is Göring. Yeah, like the Nazi leader. You can imagine the shit I got for that growing up. I chose Gorrey as a pen surname because I love the quirky and creepy cartoons by Edward Gorey. 
• I love to write horror and sci-fi. I write the dreaded fan fiction along with the other members of Team Netherworld, but our fan fiction is unlike any other. It's quirky and unique, just like the people writing it. We take characters from movies and television programs we love, or we take the characters out of movies we hated but we liked the characters in spite of how terrible the movie was. Some of them are visitors to our realm, The Netherworld. Such visitors include Harry Potter and Dr. Who, often at the same time. Some of them are fugitives, refugees from their own crappy time and bad dimension (Alien 3, Alien Resurrection.) Some are characters whose time came to an end in the material world. (Tony Soprano, J.R. Ewing.) We also have an ever-growing roster of original characters. Our "for public consumption" blog is The Netherworld. Our deep cuts blog is Undead in the Netherworld.
• For the longest time I had a big crush on Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss) but I was dismayed to find out that he's kind of an idiot in person. So it goes. To any rate, he's played some of Team Netherworld's favorite characters, and I have to respect his acting chops.

Here are five items of interest about KHEL 666:

• While we rather obviously love the heavy metal genre in all its varied forms, we also love other kinds of music. This is a very eclectic blog, and all tastes in music are respected.
• Satanists are not what most people think, but in spite of the name of the blog, none of us are Satanists. KHEL 666 was the call letters chosen for The Netherworld's most popular radio station. The "HEL" part of the call letters refers to the Norse Goddess of the Underworld, Hel. The "666" refers to the theatrical and often tongue in cheek or hyperbolic usage of the number 666 by heavy metal bands.
• We don't allow bots to spider our site. This might limit the number of potential visitors, but we have also found that it limits the number of potential trolls. We would rather have a small, friendly following than have lots of hits but also lots more crap from trolls.
• KHEL 666 was founded in 2006. It was first referenced at our now archived blog, Rattling Bones Undead Musician Magazine. The blog you see before you was founded in 2012.
• The main DJ's for KHEL 666 Radio Netherworld are Bill S. Preston and Ted "Theodore" Logan for the KHEL 666 Morning Crunch (6 AM to 10 AM), Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar for the KHEL 666 Lunch Hour (10 AM to 2 PM), Beavis and Butthead for KHEL 666 Rush Hour (2 PM to 6 PM), DJ Eddie Head for Evenings with Eddie (6 PM to midnight) and DJ Badass Brittney of the famed Naked Gymnastics for Jesus with Brittney's Bitchin' Witching Hour (midnight to 6 AM.) The weekend DJ's are varied, but include Evil Ed and Chachi Arcola. 

Thanks to Anna for hosting this fun platform to allow our visitors to know us a little better. Now, we'll have to see how many of them stick around and how many of them run off and hide, quavering in fear!

~DJ Illin' Illsa~

Sending you off with a classic tune from DJ Eddie's band, Iron Maiden.

Ravenface: Take Them All

The Brits continue to produce some of the best metal in the world. Listen to Ravenface, a fine band that I just discovered and will certainly be listening to in the future! This tune hits hard and cuts deep, with powerful guitar riffs, hammering drums, throbbing bass, and glorious, powerful vocals rising above the fray. Truly worth a listen for anyone who enjoys their metal!

~DJ Tempest~

Music Monday/Monday's Music Moves Me: Celebration and Truth

The theme for today's Monday's Music Moves Me and Music Monday is a song of celebration and a song that describes ourselves. The first is a song celebrating the summer solstice.

Here is a lesser known song by Elton John which describes how misunderstood I tended to feel in my youth. Depressive with an interest in the "supernatural" and the "occult," sure didn't fit in with the local church youth group. Believe me, the rumors flew. 
Like Lady Samantha, I was "harmless and empty of anything bad." I guess the rumors about me being a blood sucking fiend from beyond the grave were more interesting than the reality that I was just a shy, lonely young woman with a vivid imagination who happened to like wearing black.

I still like wearing black, and while it's nice to be understood, if people don't want to make the effort, I'm not going to do bend over backwards trying to make them like me. I've got better things to do with my time.

~DJ Helena~

Psychedelic Furs: Heaven

Heaven, is the whole of our hearts
And Heaven don't tear you apart
Yeah, Heaven, is the whole of our hearts
And Heaven don't tear you apart

There's too many kings
Wanna hold you down
And a world at the window
Gone underground

There's a hole in the sky
Where the sun don't shine
And a clock on the wall
And it counts my time

And Heaven, is the whole of our hearts
And Heaven don't tear you apart
Yeah, Heaven is the whole of our hearts
And Heaven don't tear you apart

There's a song on the air
With a 'love you' line
And a face in a glass
And it looks like mine

And I'm standing on ice when I say
That I don't hear planes
And I scream at the fools
Wanna jump my train

And Heaven is the whole of our hearts
And Heaven don't tear you apart
Yeah, Heaven is the whole of ours hearts
And Heaven don't tear you apart

Yeah, Heaven
Ah, Heaven
Yeah, Heaven

One Direction: More than This

Nice young men with nice voices. I wondered if this was going to be a cover of the Bryan Ferry song. I wasn't sure what to think of that, but after listening to this, I think they could have pulled it off.

"Boy bands" tend to get a bad rap. Personally, I don't care if a band is popular or lesser known, or what particular formation it takes. I only care if I enjoy listening to them. These fellows are easy on the ear.

~DJ Tempest~

Semi Trailer vs. Chock

Here's something for you motorheads. They're testing to see how much force it takes for this semi trailer to run over a chock.

In my neck of the woods, we have some steep mountain roads which require runaway truck ramps. Here, a driver tests a runaway truck ramp in North Bay, Ontario. One can imagine that if a driver was forced to pull over to do repairs or wait for a tow on one of these steep roads, having a good chock would be essential.

Since I mentioned Motörhead, I'd better play some. Wouldn't want you fiends going riot on me!
Several bands have covered this iconic slab of metal glory. I like Satyricon's cover.

I also enjoy Sepultura's cover. What's not to like?

Hope you liked this little ramble from heavy metal on 18 wheels to heavy metal on guitar, bass, and drums with accompanying gravely vocals!

Addendum:
I left this comment on the Satyricon video. I know I'm wasting my proverbial breath, pissing into the wind, leading a dead horse to water, and trying to talk sense to fools, but it needed to be said.

I should never be surprised at the level of stupidity of You Tube comments. They truly reach a new low. Someone doesn't agree with you? Call them a homo or fag, because being a homosexual is teeotally grody, like ew for shure! Or the comment that you don't like the original version by Motorhead because Lemmy "grosses you out." In other words, you only want to listen to bands that look good to you, which isn't shallow at all.
Being a little older, I remember listening to the original version. Such amazing, hard music could not be ignored, and the lyrics are actually intelligent and thought-provoking. I like a good party song, but I really appreciate something that makes me think. Lemmy may not be the best looking guy in the world, but I don't listen only to music by guys whom I find "hot." I listen to music I find good, period. It could be played by Jabba the Hut and a band of Juiblex, and I would still listen.
This is a great cover. The Sepultura cover is also great. Both Satyricon and Sepultura are true to the spirit of the original song but put their own unique twist on it. That's what makes a great cover.
The original will always rise to the top for me, but that doesn't negate the worth of the newer renditions.
I know this final thought will be ignored and/or ridiculed, because, You Tube, but couldn't we all just listen to and appreciate the music and stop looking for reasons to bandy about schoolyard insults?

~DJ Opal~

Netherworld Cinema: Speeding Through Lemony Snicket

If you always wanted to read the Lemony Snicket books but haven't had time, Tim Curry sums them up for you in two minutes!

~DJ Illsa~