Christmas Albums

Just want some recommendations for some really good Christian Christmas albums mostly in the Rock/Metal vein but I like all forms of music so all are welcome. I don't like Christmas music due to commercialization and oversaturation but it's been on my heart all week to get a few and worship during this holiday season.

Do you like instrumental music?

HUGE fan of instrumental music.

Jeff Scheetz has an Instrumental Christmas CD

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Besides the aforementioned Jeff Sheetz album ...

Instrumental
August Burns Red
Pastor Brad
Gary Hoey

Theatrical / Non-traditional
Trans Siberian Orchestra

Secular
We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year (various artists)
A Very Metal Christmas (various artists)
Merry Axemas (various artists)
The Classic Hard Rock Christmas Album
Twisted Sister
Rob Halford

Something Unexpected
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee Again

Sadly, I can never find a good collection of Christmas songs put out by Christian hard rock/ metal bands, and I search for one every year. You can find a song here and there, like Stryper's Winter Wonderland and Deliverance's Silent Night, but never a complete set in one package. I would love for someone to prove me wrong and place a link to it from here.

If you can find it, I like this one:

Rock Power Praise 2:  Christmas



John Schlitt of Petra has a rock Christmas album out as well.

Although more blues, I have two Christmas songs on my new Big Chris & D'Bare Bones Band album.

I have a hard rock instrumental album, In the Christmas Groove available for download and on CD:

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I also have a single available for download that is a remake of The Little Drummer Boy:

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Xid wrote:

I have a hard rock instrumental album, In the Christmas Groove available for download and on CD:

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I also have a single available for download that is a remake of The Little Drummer Boy:

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Doh! I can't believe I forgot about yours!    I even have it!

With that in mind, let me clarify my statement concerning being unable to find Christian metal Christmas albums. What I would like to find is something like Bill Roxx puts out for Roxx productions, but with Christmas songs; something with 12-15 Christmas songs by various Christian artists.

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Doh! I can't believe I forgot about yours!    I even have it!

Oh!  Sad Panda! 

Theocracy's Christmas songs are pretty fantastic!  You can download them for free if you sign up on their website.  (They don't spam you.)  They redid their website though and now I don't know where you can find those songs to download...

Do you like extreme metal (death, black, etc.)?  I have a few Christmas compilations which I would recommend:

A Brutal Christmas - The Season In Chaos
Repossession: A Christmas Album
Prophecy Foretold: A Brutal Christmas

I'm not sure how easy it is to find, but Flaskavsae - Christmas EP is pretty good too if you like lo-fi black metal.

I like Death and Black Metal, not my first choice but I do. Blues was my first love and am still a Blues freak so I think I'll look into some of that too. Thanks for all the recs, dudes.