Legendary rockers Bride have made their contribution to the ever expanding collection of rock and metal bands performing Christmas songs.
For those who have never heard of Bride, the Christian rock band was formed back in the 1980’s by brothers Troy and Dale Thompson, getting their first break opening up for the Daniel Band in Pennsylvania in 1986. For those not familiar with Christian rock that may not mean anything, but Daniel Band was big at the time. As one might imagine in the near 40yrs of existence, the band underwent many lineup and label changes, but now without success as to their credit the band has 8 major releases, 12 songs that hit #1 in various charts and 4 Dove awards to their credit.
Christmas albums can be hit or miss and many times it really depends on how much you like a particular band as to whether or not you think their renditions of classic songs are just a novelty or something really good. Personally, the Rottweiler Records Fleas Naughty Dog, volume 1 is one of my all-time favorite collection of Christmas songs, but much of that is due to variety of approaches taken as everything from punk to goth to black metal is contained in that release. Fro single artists releases, the August Burns Red Sleddin’ Hill is another that is really well done. As you might imagine, since it is taking me so long to actually get to talking about this release, it is not one of my favorites, but in all fairness, I’m not a Bride fan either, so that makes this more of a challenge.
Horror Punk Band Grave Robber has released a lyric video of the popular Christmas carol ‘Joy To The World’ , the track is taken from the Fleas Naughty Dog Vol 5 Christmas compilation released by Rottweiler Records. Check out Grave Robber‘s take of the song below.
Merry Christmas from Timōrātus. Have you ever waited too long to find a gift for your significant other? Well, this is a song about just that! Hopefully it’ll make you chuckle a little. Check out the video for ‘Christmas Present Crisis’ below.
Georgia-based melodic metal band Theocracy performs their 2008 Christmas song ‘Rudolph Vs. Frosty’ live at the “Ghost Ship” Album Release Concert at The 120 Tavern & Music Hall, Marietta, GA. on December 3, 2016. The video can be seen below.