This is a2008 holiday release. Deck the halls with long haired rockers, decorate the tree with Flying Vs! Yes, it’s time to pump your fists and bang your heads to the crunching sounds of a Metal Christmas with many of your fave Hard Rockers ringing in the holiday season in style. 11 tracks that feature collaborations from artists like Lemmy, Dave Grohl, Alice Cooper, Billy Sheehan, Tim Ripper Owens, Joe Lynn Turner, Tommy Shaw, Ronnie James Dio and many others.
If you have not heard of this release yet, well its time you do. The perfect stocking stuffer for that headbanging thrasher in your family come on you know every family has at least one. Extremely well produced and featuring many of metals best players. We Wish You A Metal XMas And A Headbanging New Year is actually a very decent recording to add to your collection or download from iTunes to your xmas holiday playlist like I did. My favorite track would for sure be Run Rudolph Run featuring Lemmy on vocals, it just bleeds coolness.
Hearing Dio belt out God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, like only Ronnie can is almost kind of spooky, and dark, and actually bad ass! For fans of cookie monster style vocals, you will enjoy Silent Night like you have never heard it before and hearing Geoff Tate sing Silver Bells is pretty cool. Now for me this is not a cd I would enjoy year round, but around the holidays I will be happy to fire it up each year as a new tradition. (by fullmetalrock.com)
Tracklist:
Jeff Scott Soto, Bruce Kulick, Bob Kulick, Chris Wyse & Ray Luzier:
01. We Wish You A Merry Xmas (Traditional) 4.39
Lemmy Kilmister, Billy F. Gibbons & Dave Grohl:
02. Run Rudolph Run (Berry) 4.00
Alice Cooper, John 5, Billy Sheehan & Vinny Appice:
03. Santa Claws Is Coming To Town (Gillespie/Coots) 4.19
Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Rudy Sarzo & Simon Wright:
04. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Tradiitional) 4.07
Geoff Tate, Carlos Cavazo, James Lomenzo & Ray Luzier:
05. Silver Bells (Evans/Livingstone) 5.05
Dug Pinnick, George Lynch, Billy Sheehan & Simon Phillips:
06. Little Drummer Boy (Simeone/Onerati/Davis) 4.37
Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens*, Steve Morse, Juan Garcia, Marco Mendoza & Vinny Appice:
07. Santa Claus Is Back In Town (Leiber/Mike Stoller) 4.01
Chuck Billy, Scott Ian, Jon Donais, Chris Wyse & John Tempesta:
08. Silent Night (Gruber/Mohr) 4.11
Oni Logan, Craig Goldy, Tony Franklin & John Tempesta:
09. Deck The Halls (Traditional) 4.10
Stephen Pearcy, Tracii Guns, Bob Kulick, Billy Sheehan & Greg Bissonette:
10. Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer (Brooks) 4.41
Joe Lynn Turner, Bruce Kulick, Bob Kulick, Rudy Sarzo & Simon Wright:
11. Rockin’ Around The Xmas Tree (Marks) 3.21
Tommy Shaw, Steve Lukather, Marco Mendoza & Kenny Aronoff:
12. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (Lennon/Ono) 4.27
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