Day 21/25 of songs for Christmas countdown: the first song today is X-mas Time for the Skins by Washington DC hardcore band Good Clean Fun. The band was in the straight edge movement, which tended to blur the lines with another subgenre of hardcore (Christian hardcore, aka Spirit-filled hardcore) and were active from 1998-2007. This song was released in 2000 on a split 7” with Throwdown. It’s a cover of a 1986 song by New Jersey hardcore band Crucial Youth. It’s about skinheads celebrating the holiday instead of fighting each other.
The next song is Every Bell on Earth Will Ring by The Oh Hellos. They’re an indie folk duo from Oklahoma. The group is fronted by the Heath siblings. This song was released in 2011 on their Christmas EP, which was their second release. It’s an amalgamation of 3 different Christmas songs. I’ve posted both the regular version and a live mini concert, of which the last song is this song.
Today’s final song is Jingle Bells by Austrian Death Machine. The band is a tribute to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying does all of the music, and Chad Ackerman of Destroy the Runner and As I Lay Dying provides Arnold voices. This song was released in the summer (really?!) of 2008, and is a re-written version of the classic Christmas song.
