As your family and friends proceed to make merry and pass around the turkey and the pumpkin pie, we’re going to take a few minutes of your time as we review a few holiday offerings spanning everything from traditional metal and AOR standbys to neo-folk and black metal…or in other words, business as usual.
As noted in one of my earlier DVD reviews, this is a strange time of year for releases. Labels and manufacturers realize you’ve probably already spent your holiday cash and are likely saving the bigger guns for sometime in the new year, so there tends to be less new material available for your eager hands to sort through.
Despite that, we still have a good twenty something platters to spin and lay down the verdict on for you, so put on your Santa hat, kick back with some spiked egg nog and crack out the Bailey’s Irish Creme, because we’re not letting a little thing like the biggest holiday of the year stop us, right?
Here comes a big steaming plate of goodies…dig in!
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