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Watch Charlie Griffiths transforming Slayer’s “South of Heaven” into a Christmas song, with members of Dream Theater, Mercyful Fate, Protest The Hero, and more

Author Silvia Tortiglione - 26.12.2022

It’s Christmas time, metalheads! Haken’s guitarist Charlie Griffiths has dropped a cover of Slayer‘s “South of Heaven” in a winter holiday version called “South Of Lapland”.

Along with him, singer Rody Walker (Protest The Hero), keyboardist Jordan Rudess (Dream Theatre), Ray Hearne (Haken) bassist Becky Baldwin (Mercyful Fate), drummer Delta Empire and guitarist Dan Goldsworthy (My Minds Weapon).

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