It’s Christmastime! Time for all of us to start wrapping presents, prepare to eat gut-busting amounts of food and stick on those playlists of nonstop classic Christmas songs. Wait… we metalheads don’t really have a classic Christmas song, do we?
Of course, a whole host of heavy metal megastars have attempted to make their own standout holiday song over the genre’s history. Twisted Sister, Rob Halford, Tony Iommi, Type O Negative – hell, even Christopher Lee… all these idols and more have dabbled in adding a touch as black as coal to the otherwise joyous yuletide season. Whether they’ve been shockingly shit or brilliantly inventive, though, none of these efforts have ever become true hits in their creators’ oeuvres. What gives?
