It was a chilly Friday evening in old Sedville and many would find their weekend-starting libations at places like Fitter’s, Coach’s, Dukes and Boots and The End Zone. But the hardest rockers and the most magnetic metal heads found themselves at the American Legion for a night of smoking, drinking and eardrum injuring.
It was time for “Metalomedy II” (or “Metalomody, if you preferred to trust the apron sign on the sound board). The mics were checked, the keg was tapped and the patrons and performers alike had dressed up for the Friday before Halloween.
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