The Antichristmas Vol. 1

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The Antichristmas Vol. 1
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Compilation album by World Metal Alliance
Released 7 December 2004
Recorded 2004
Genre Heavy metal
Length51:18
Label World Metal Alliance
WMA Xmas Metal Vol. 1

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Re-release album art

The Antichristmas Volume 1 is a compilation album of metal Christmas song parodies and instrumentals by members of the World Metal Alliance, released to the public via Cafepress on 7 December 2004. [1] The album was re-released the following year as WMA Xmas Metal Volume 1 for several reasons, primarily for search engine optimization.

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World Metal Alliance

The World Metal Alliance (WMA) is a music organization founded in 1992. Its initial purpose was to inform and unite the heavy metal subculture in order to counteract opposition to heavy metal by groups such as the PMRC which were active at the time. During its first four years the World Metal Alliance operated using printed media and conventional mail. Eventually the organization would continue these efforts online with its website and forums.

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Contents

In 2005 the album was included in the article "Jingle Bell Schlock" by the Australian newspaper The Age . [2]

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Track listing

  1. "Of None Effect" — 0:56
  2. "Dark Tradition In Full Swing" — 3:56
  3. "Beware" — 2:24
  4. "Spoiled Children Watch The Sky" — 3:18
  5. "With The Axe" — 1:16
  6. "O Dead Pine Tree" — 2:49
  7. "A Book That Is Sealed" — 1:15
  8. "Check The Balls' — 2:00
  9. "Turned Unto Fables" — 0:23
  10. "Some Red Clad Bearded Rental Men" — 4:43
  11. "Seven Vials Of Wrath" — 3:36
  12. "Woe To The World" — 3:46
  13. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" — 3:28
  14. "Angels We Have Heard On High" — 4:04
  15. "O Christmas Tree" — 3:00
  16. "Deck The Halls" — 2:00
  17. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" — 4:43
  18. "Joy To The World" — 3:46

Personnel

Keyboardist musician who plays keyboard instruments

A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more general term for a person who plays them. These keyboards include:

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

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References

  1. ↑ WMA Antichristmas Vol. 1 Album Copyright 2004
  2. ↑ Scott-Norman, Fiona (5 December 2005). "Jingle bell schlock". The Age.

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