Something about the year long stretch from one Xmas to the next brings out the larger than life, the mythical, the monster.
Jesus, my friend, gets a consult in Popular Mechanics’s “364 Days a Year.” Menacing rock.
Third in a series of video game villain Christmasses, “The Fright Before Christmas” takes The Stupendium to meet all manner of weirdity without much concern for consequence. 364 days a year they’re rather vicious, but this one day they’re all too preoccupied with opening their toys. Fun, meaty pop.
“Krampusnacht” rips metal confessions from Sterbhaus, who seems to dig the monstrous torture around Xmas in exchange for That which I’m getting for 364 days doing everything I wish and more. Those metalheads–
Damien Marusenko focuses on only “Bloody Queen.” Santa goes out one night of the year The other 364 she instills fear (and it implies she might be Mrs. Claus). Seems she’s only equipped with a 12 gauge, but the attitude persists. Sepulchral pop. And BLUE ALERT profanity.