It's a bit before noon on a bone-crackingly cold Saturday morning. Peggy -- the wife -- has gone away for the weekend to visit a far-flung friend in the Berkshires. As such, I'm left here looking after our little people. I've done it before, but it always proves to be somewhat arduous alone. It being entirely freezing outside isn't helping matters. As such, I'm making reluctant use of the television to help me get through the day. After a bracingly frustrating lunch wherein most of my kids' meals ended up on the floor (as opposed to into their respective mouths), I've plopped them in front of the Noggin network, and they're now staring at the screen with mouths agape like two raccoons discovered in a garbage can.
I still have an hour or so before I can impose nap time -- a dictum that will invariably be met with strenuous protest. To borrow a title from an old Nine Inch Nails instrumental -- Help Me, I Am in Hell!
Quite fittingly, I stumbled across this clip on YouTube and was instantly transported back to my acne-speckled high school days. This live clip of Venom performing "Welcome To Hell" was recorded sometime in the mid-80s, and it originally appeared on vinyl on the Canadian Assault e.p. which I remember buying at Crazy Eddie's on East 86th Street as a high school senior. I had no idea there was video of the performance! Suffice to say, it's infernally awesome -- especially when Cronos introduces "the grand master of Hades and mayhem," Mantas on guitar, and he plays an impromptu snippet of Grieg's "In The Hall of The Mountain King" (at precisely 00:43). I've played it about four times already this morning, and Charlotte and Oliver keep screaming at me to "turn it down, Daddy!" But if I have to listen to fuckin' "Blue's Clues," I think it's only fair that they have to listen to a little vintage black metal in return, don't you?
Hail Satan.
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