"A Christmas Cradle" - a heavy metal Christmas medley (2007)
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Uploaded by herrsolera on Oct 20, 2010
Ever since I became musically aware, I have wanted to write a rock version of "We Three Kings". At the time, I was thirteen, listening to grunge and had little to no musical intuition. However, even when I started writing songs, I didn't have the equipment necessary for such an undertaking.
I also have a self-imposed limitation on Christmas music: I can only listen to it after Thanksgiving and before the 25th. This naturally gives me a narrow window for composing.
But in December of 2007 it all came together. After spinning around in my head for over a decade, I wrote "A Christmas Cradle", a medley of my favorite Christmas songs, bound together by an original melody, whose name is also the title of the work.
There are nine songs in this medley, with one "secret" song (for those of you adept enough to pick apart layers) and my original melody.
I hope you enjoy this creation, even if you're not a fan of the genre, because I had a blast putting it together. If I forgot your favorite song, please leave it as a comment!
Enjoy, and happy holidays.
Notable influences: It's impossible to not mention the influence Trans Siberian Orchestra had on this piece. However, I tried to write my song with TSO's flaws in mind (lack of orchestra, repetitive formula, overuse of power chords, etc.)
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its nice and all but when i type epic metal christmas medley i expect something a little more epic, more harmonized leads, ringing power chords, its good but not epic metal xmas
rajp420 2 months ago
You should name this video Symphonic Metal Christmas Medley... Very nice stuff.
marcmm03 4 months ago
I love It!
vblue12 1 year ago
and that's what I'm going to play at work tomorrow! Thank you ;)
KennaDeMerkedo 1 year ago
very nice work. please do more stuff like this, this is how christmas should be
deadlysinner11 1 year ago
God faps to this
fatkid4623 1 year ago
Great Mix....Definitely favorited
sideshow557 1 year ago
This is how XMass should sound :D
necro666mage 1 year ago
Nice, you did a good job at making it metal sounding but still keeping it very melodic.
xamox 1 year ago