Merry Metal Christmas!

So, I know there's only a couple hours left of Christmas, but it is still the Christmas season until New Year's, right?

I looked up "heavy metal christmas songs" after having "No Presents For Christmas" by King Diamond show up at the end of another King Diamond YouTube video.  I had no idea there were so many metal artists with Christmas albums.  Now, alot of these are "glam" metal artists (Twisted Sister), but I absolutely LOVED Dio's version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman".  It sounded so epic and powerful.  The song choice is great because it is naturally in a harmonic minor key, easy to "metallicize".  

I made a  little playlist of some of my favorite heavy metal Christmas songs I found, just for fun.  Play it while your grandma is over for Christmas!


5 Christmas Favorites

Also on here is Twisted Sister's rockified version of "O Come all Ye Faithful", another song I always liked because it sounded so glorious and powerful.  It really showcases Dee Snider's singing voice.  It isn't the most reverent version, but it is very fun!  You can also hear the guitar play "We're Not Gonna Take It" in there, as well as (I believe) the melody to "Hava Nagila" (a Jewish song) as the final melody.  I'm not really sure why they did that, but it works!  Maybe it was their way of being inclusive. 

This song comes with a cute music video too!  The acting is quite caricaturesque (apparently that isn't a word, but I'm using it anyway), but it is about a guy giving his (uptight) girlfriend a Twisted Sister album for Christmas.  She freaks out, and Dee Snider and Co. appear magically in the living room (similar to the "We're Not Gonna Take It" video).  Eventually she loosens up, and they all rock out in the living room.  It's kind of hilariously bad, but I went awww at the end all the same because it was a happy holiday ending.  I could kind of relate because metal helps me "let my hair down" too.  But I'm not as uptight as that chick :P 

Hopefully, I'll be able to post some cool guitar stuff during my break from school, and get to blogging more regularly.  I hope whoever reads this blog has a great holiday season!  Season's Greetings!  I have always thought that was the poor forgotten cousin of holiday greetings.  Everyone is up in arms about Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, but no one remembers poor Season's Greetings.  Anyway!  Season's Greetings!  Have a metal holiday :)