Horror metal favorite Ice Nine Kills has unleashed “A Very Vicious Christmas,” an eight-track festive bloodbath that gives horror fans and metalheads their own holiday soundtrack.
Created for INK’s collaboration with Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, these gruesome re-imaginings of Christmas classics are out now via Fearless Records and available to stream digitally with vinyl available to pre-order and a playlist of visualizers of each track available to watch.
The songs on “A Very Vicious Christmas” brought Ice Nine Kills’ festive bloodletting to fans on both coasts. At Universal Studios Hollywood, they soundtracked “Terror Tram starring Art the Clown,” accompanying the killer’s blood-soaked takeover of the historic backlot as he arrived too early for Christmas and hijacked the tram for his own unholy holiday celebration. The songs also featured in the downtown clown area of Universal’s Orlando park.
“Jingle Bells” trades wholesome winter scenery for “mistletoe-tags” and a “one hearse open slay,” while “The Twelve Days of Christmas” delivers five broken bones, four missing teeth and a trip to the mortuary. Even the children’s choir gets in on the festive dismemberment on “O Christmas Tree.” Across the collection, beloved seasonal standards emerge with their lyrics freshly butchered and Art the Clown firmly installed as the guest nobody should have invited down the chimney.
Produced by Charnas, Joe Occhiuti and Steve Sopchak, “A Very Vicious Christmas” also includes full-band and orchestral versions of “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.”
“It’s a gift for us to present our beloved Psychos with exactly what they axed for this season,” INK frontman Spencer Charnas said. “We’re proud to partner with Halloween Horror Nights on our latest work of ‘Art.’ Put ‘A Very Vicious Christmas’ in the bloody stockings of all your loved ones, whether they deserved diamonds or coal.”
“A Very Vicious Christmas” track list:
- “Carol of the Bells”
- “Jingle Bells”
- “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”
- “O Christmas Tree”
- “Joy to the World”
- “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
- “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies (Full Band Version)”
- “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies (Orchestral Version)”
The Christmas shopping gets suitably sinister, too, with a new, limited-edition “Nightmare on the Ninth” merch drop accompanying “A Very Vicious Christmas.” Available now, the collection gives fans another reason to put something vicious on their Christmas list. Check out the collection here.
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