TWISTED SISTER's version of
"White Christmas" (written by
Irving Berlin and famously performed by
Bing Crosby) has been posted online at the band's official
MySpace page. Also available at the same location is the group's rendition of
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" (written by
Thomas Connor; first recorded by
Jimmy Boyd in 1952). Both songs will be included on
TWISTED SISTER recently completed "final" disc,
"A Twisted Christmas", featuring metal versions of holiday classics, including
"Deck the Halls" and
"Oh Come All Ye Faithful".
In a recent interview with
Doug Podell of Detroit's
WRIF 101.1 FM,
TWISTED SISTER frontman
Dee Snider stated about the upcoming CD, "We've been in the studio… I don't know if you heard about this. It came to us that when it comes to Christmas, there's every kind of music Christmas records — there's jazz, there's barbershop quartet, there's classical, there's easy listening — but there's no old-school metal. And we have just finished recording
'A Twisted Christmas' — 10 traditional Christmas songs done '80s-metal style. I'm telling you — it works. It's unbelievable. It rocks.
"You know what? Years ago, back in the '80s, I was saying, 'Man, it would be great if all the bands got together and we each took a Christmas song and did it our own way.' So what
J.J. [
French, guitar] — knowing this is the last year for me — said, 'What do you think about doing a Christmas record?' And I said, 'You know what? That could just be insane enough to be successful.' So we went in and the stuff works, man. We've got an
AC/DC-type version of
'Silver Bells', a
MAIDEN version of… This is what we did: We approached it like, 'How would these bands do it?' A
MAIDEN version of
'White Christmas',
THIN LIZZY, a
JUDAS PRIEST 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus'. It rocks. Me and
Lita Ford did a duet, power ballad-style, on
'I'll Be Home for Christmas'; it came out incredible."
"A Twisted Christmas" (view cover
here) track listing:
01.
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas02.
Oh Come All Ye Faithful03.
White Christmas04.
I'll Be Home For Christmas (feat. Lita Ford)
05.
Silver Bells06.
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause07.
Let It Snow08.
Deck the Halls09.
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)10.
Heavy Metal Christmas (The Twelve Days of Christmas)"A Twisted Christmas" is scheduled for release on October 17 via
Razor & Tie Records.
