#Christmas deathmetal music full#

It might not get you in the Christmas spirit, but if all the Jesus stuff is starting to get you down, a quick blast of this playlist will get you back on the right (left) path in no time! (Quick notes on the bands featured can be found below this playlist!) So, without further ado, here is the most disgustingly filthy and evil playlist of songs about the Nativity that I could come up with. I also did my best to veer away from the literally thousands of metal songs dealing with sexual violence against the Virgin Mary, because, #notallmetalheads. I really wanted to include songs like Nocturnus’ “ Destroying the Manger,” but all those space sounds and actual musical chops just didn’t fit in with all the primitive cavern-core black death grunting on this playlist. Instead, I decided to focus only on songs that actually dealt with The Nativity itself, and, as an added restriction, I made sure to only use the most evil and disgustingly filthy sounding black/death bands of all time.

#Christmas deathmetal music full#

However, I didn’t want to take the easy way out and just fill this list full of metal Christmas staples like Torture’s “ Slay Ride,” Dio’s excellent rendition of “ God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” and that King Diamond one.

So, today, for the first time, I have pulled together an ALL METAL Christmas playlist! Still, in an effort to balance things out, I thought I’d try a little change of pace from my past Jesus-heavy Christmas playlists and see if I can’t work on taking the Christ out of Christmas a bit. I don’t even care about all the Jesus stuff, there’s just a special feeling in the air no matter how lame and preachy the second verse of God Rest You Merry Gentlemen is. Next Tuesday December 13th marks the 15th anniversary of when Chuck lost his battle with cancer.Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. Chuck made his music for everyone, and is well known in the metal community for being an upstanding gentleman. You can actually understand what Chuck Schuldiner is saying in his songs unlike some later death metal vocalists so don’t let death metal vocals scare you away from listening to this gem. Leprosy is an album everyone should have in their collection. This is what made Death such a great band, great music with great lyrics that actually have some meaning and real feelings behind them. Of course, these lyrics are backed by some fantastic metal. The second half of the song deals with thoughts about death and how strange it is and how it can never be explained. It has more thought provoking lyrics about going to a funeral and viewing the body for the first half of the song. What has now been days, it seems like yearsĪnother favorite song from this album is “Open Casket”. It’s a really meaningful song lyrically that makes people think, as sadly many of us might face this situation in our lives: “Pull the Plug” is written from the viewpoint of a hospitalized person who is only being kept alive by machines. Perhaps their first song to discuss a topic of controversy in the United States. The lyrics deal with the concept that we are brought into the world with the purpose of dying. The second song “Born Dead” also offers us some great riffs coming in faster than the speed of sound. The lyrics to the song deal with someone who has leprosy as you may have guessed. This is a key track to the album and a great way to kick it off. A riff comes in followed by Chuck’s scream into the full on goodness of the song. The album opens with the title track giving us some heavy low end guitars and bass drum leading the way. This album was key to the development of the sub-genre and an influencer of death metal bands to come into formation within the next five years after this album was released. Death’s first album Scream Bloody Gore was very thrash oriented, but Leprosy moved them into a bit more different sound which came to be known as death metal. This album is such a key influence to the scene. Death would even become more musically technical as their career progressed through the 1990s.

They’re essentially thrash albums with a little bit more extremeness to them.Ĭhuck Schuldiner was known as a great guitar player and lyricist. I love early death metal albums such as Leprosy which was given to us August 12, 1988. Death was integral in the formation of what was to be termed death metal. Join us daily through December 25th to read the latest entry.Ĭan anything bad really be said about Death? Founder Chuck Schuldiner was a true metal innovator. Metal Mofos’ Isaac Sauers gives us a holiday treat as he counts down 25 days till Christmas with 25 of his favorite must own metal and hard rock albums.