Sadly, Ozzy was unable to make the Screaming Metal gig

Before you tune in to MTV2 tonight at 2 a.m. to catch "Headbangers Ball," if you're in the New York/New Jersey area you might wanna hightail it over to Dingbatz in Clifton, New Jersey to catch Talking Metal podcast dudes John Ostronomy and Mark Strigl rocking out onstage with ex-members of Hades, Alan Tecchio, Dan Lorenzo, and Ron Lipnicki (who is now the drummer in Overkill) and a bunch of special guests playing a killer set of '80s covers. (Click "more" to watch a video of the band rehearsing for the show). Read more...

To christen their press kit web site, the dudes behind the blog Talking Metal, John Ostronomy and Mark Strigl, have teamed up with God Forbid vocalist Byron Davis, Halford guitarist 'Metal' Mike Chlasciak and ex-Death and Iced Earth drummer Richard Christy to record a pretty authentic cover of Slayer's "South of Heaven."

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