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15 Metal Christmas Songs for Unsilent, Unholy Nights

AC/DC, Dio, Type O Negative, Korn and more deck the halls with heavy riffs

Stevie Wonder once said “Everyone’s a kid at Christmas,” and the thrashers set are no exception. Over the years, metal bands have turned their inverted crucifixes around and cut some of the heaviest, loudest, most rip-roaring odes to the holiday season. Here are 15 if the most fist-pounding, throat-shredding, head-banging, heavy metal Christmas tunes ever recorded.

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Christopher Lee – ‘Little Drummer Boy’

Thick, chugging riffs rumble in the background while 91-year-old British actor Christopher Lee, with his impossibly deep baritone, delivers a take that can only be described as epic. The other metalers on this list turned in smashing versions of their songs, but how could anyone top Saruman himself, bellowing "A-rum-pa-pum-pum!"?