Label: Demolition Records (UK), DEMCD 159
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, U.S.
Time: 45:52
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 335 Mb
These days Christmas albums have become a tacky, cynical, moneygrubbing fixture in a festive season already overstuffed with commercialised vulgarity. So respect is due to Dee Snider and his hard-rocking elves for going the extra mile with their 2006 festive stocking-filler, which pushed gaudy yuletide cash-ins to new heights of migraine-inducing, cross-dressing, office party naffness. This is the album, in other words, that Twisted Sister were born to make.
A Twisted Christmas treats a range of seasonal classics including White Christmas, Deck The Halls and Let It Snow to the full glam-metal treatment of clobbering drums and squeaky-shiny hard-rock riffola, with Snider's signature nails-on blackboard screech the icing on the cake. It is relentlessly horrible, of course, but no more so than most Green Day albums and considerably more fun. The melodic parallels between O Come All Ye Faithful and We're Not Gonna Take It are amusingly highlighted, and there are pleasing in-jokey nods to Judas Priest, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy and others. A decade later, this straight no-frills reissue remains difficult to like but still oddly compelling, like watching a scary cross-dressing clown vomiting half-digested mince pies into the eager upturned faces of carol-singing Dickensian orphans. Just not quite as entertaining as that sounds.
(loudersound.com/reviews/twisted-sister-a-twisted-christmas-album-review)
01. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (04:48)
02. Oh Come All Ye Faithful (04:39)
03. White Christmas (Featuring Doro Pesch) (03:56)
04. I'll Be Home For Christmas (Featuring Lita Ford) (04:08)
05. Silver Bells (05:04)
06. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (03:39)
07. Let It Snow (03:09)
08. Deck The Halls (02:52)
09. The Christmas Song (03:40)
10. Heavy Metal Christmas (05:14)
11. Merry Christmas (00:36)
12. White Christmas (Featuring Eddie Ojeda Sung In Spanish) (04:02)
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