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Ozzy and Zombie: A frighteningly fun concert

Two legendary rock stars Rob Zombie and Ozzy Osbourne staged what may be the all-time best Halloween concert.

The stunning performance opened with the “Halloween” movie theme, a video of a flying bat and a guy, who was wearing face paint treating the audience with compositions like “Living Dead Girl” and “American Witch.” The show ended with the guy, who once bit the head off a bat, performing his demonic hits, like “Bark at the Moon” and “Mr. Crowley.”

Two of heavy metal’s veterans Osbourne and Zombie bit into a crowd of fans about eleven thousand people at the Target Center in Minneapolis yesterday night for perhaps the most wonderful Halloween show ever to hit the Twin Cities.

It seems that every night is like Halloween for the Ozzy and Rob. Fresh from directing the remake of “Halloween”, Rob Zombie brought many slasher-flick images with him.

Rob Zombie is a one-trick pony musically. The artist is riding the same pulsating sound that defined his old group ten years ago. Rob has become one of metal’s best purveyors of visual gimmickry since the legendary Kiss. Among Zombie’s arsenal yesterday night were scantily clad female dancers, an enormous devil-faced drum riser, and a ten-foot evil-looking robot that danced around the stage.

After almost six decades mostly hard-lived years, Ozzy Osbourne came off a bit zombie-like. Ozzy’s voice was a shadow of its former self, cracking during older tunes like “Suicide Solution” and “Crazy Train.” Osbourne’s bag full of tricks included a firehose that he was repeatedly using to spray the crowd with foam.

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