The boys from Steel Fading out of Dadeville, Ala., provided the entertainment Halloween Night at Pockets, mixing their alt-rock original sound with some nicely chosen covers. Their sound is aggressive and rocking, but sleek and polished too.

The crowd was digging it and the originals were received with the same enthusiasm as the crowd pleasers, although due to the length of their set, the band had to pad it down with some covers.

Steel Fading hit the stage at 9 p.m. and continued all through the evening. I caught them as they began their second set, right after the Pockets Halloween costume contest (won this year by an uncanny Ozzy Osbourne lookalike). The mood changed five seconds into their cover of the late Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” and vocalist Geoffrey Haynes and guitarist Jerry Thornton did justice to Eddie Van Halen’s original iconic riff.

Taking turns singing vocals over the course of the next few songs, everyone on stage seemed like they were having just as much fun being there as the crowd was listening to them. They interspersed dancier tunes with harder alt-rock numbers, such as a cover of Seven Mary Three’s “Cumbersome.”

The band’s originals sound like a cross between the radio friendly vocal stylings of Chad Kroeger from Nickelback mixed with a more modern metal two-guitar harmony riff sound, like Hopesfall or Underoath. However, the hard exterior reveals lyrics that borrow heavily from Christian imagery and lean on moral themes to provide a sort of center.

For more on the band, visit their MySpace page, myspace.com/steelfading.