Maybe it’s because I’m Jewish, or maybe I’m just an evil liberal participating in The War on Christmas, but few things annoy me more than holiday songs. They pretty much universally suck. Except for Dean Martin’s “Let it Snow.” I like that one. But that may just be because it was used at the end of Die Hard.

ANYWAY, now I guess there’s a second exception to the rule: Mike Patton crooning “The Christmas Song” for John Zorn’s new Happy Birthday Jesus! release,  A Dreamer’s Christmas. Patton’s velvety voice is so good it makes me go all weak in the knees pretty much no matter what he’s singing.

A Dreamer’s Christmas is out now.

-AR

[via Metal Insider]

I can’t even believe that shit like this still happens in America in 2009, but that’s progress for you. Reader Andrew Morales sent us a link to this story from the Examiner – which I gather is either a Christian publication, or one where the reporters are very, very biased – that reports on a controversy brewing with regards to Toxic Holocaust and The Black Dahlia Murder playing at a Christian-run venue in Nashville last night. The biased writing of the article makes the whole thing inadvertently hilarious – check out some excerpts:

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