13 Metal Christmas Songs NOT to Play in Front of Your Family

If you’re planning a warm, cheerful Christmas gathering with your family this year, you might want to avoid playing these 13 metal Christmas songs. Nothing sends your loved ones right back out the front door faster than lyrics about Santa, strippers, and axe murderers. Then again, maybe getting your family out of your house is exactly what you want this Christmas. Who are we to judge?

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### Here Are 13 Metal Songs Not to Play in Front of Your Family on Christmas
*(Unless you really want them to leave)*

#### Corey Taylor – “X-M@$”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“If I ain’t drunk then it ain’t Christmas / You know where to stick those jingle bells / If I ain’t hammered, it ain’t Hanukkah / And all you motherfuckers go to hell.”

#### Steel Panther – “Sexy Santa”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“In the back of his sleigh, he’s got some hoe hoe hoe’s / They’re lickin’ eggnog drippin’ from his firehose / He traded little Prancer for an exotic dancer / Yeah, you can see his North Pole if you look at his pants-a / He’s got a bitchin’ red suit and he’s totally buff / He’ll come to your house if you got a stocking to stuff.”

#### King Diamond – “No Presents For Christmas”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“There’s no presents, not this Christmas / There’s no presents / Tom and Jerry, drinking Sherry / They don’t give a damn.”

#### Ice Nine Kills – “Merry Axe-Mass”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“‘Twas the night before Christmas / At just five years old / My parents were butchered / In the blistering cold / He seemed jolly at first / In his suit stained with red / He let out a laugh / But then left us for dead.”

#### Amon Amarth – “Viking Christmas”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“Officially we despise any of those Christian customs / But in secrecy we can’t flee the Christmas spell / I bet you can’t imagine how sentimental we can be: 5 bearded vikings reenact the nativity scene.”

#### Lacuna Coil – “Naughty Christmas”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“He’s inside in the house / Looking for my room / Someone drank the glass of milk / That I’ve put on the floor / Have I been so bad / Santa will not bring me gifts and / Krampus will come / What is this noise on my door?”

#### Type O Negative – “Red Water (Christmas Mourning)”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“Wake up, it’s Christmas mourn / Those loved have long since gone / The stockings are hung but who cares / Preserved for those no longer there / Six feet beneath me sleep.”

#### Set It Off – “This Christmas (I’ll Burn It To The Ground)”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“Oh my God, it’s here, this awful time of year / How I hate the snow is falling / Wealthy neighbors bragging about the gifts they’re getting / Hey Jack! They say, let me take a guess now! You’re getting K-Mart clothes again! / And then, I had a revelation! / This is my chance to sew their lips clean shut with fear.”

#### GWAR – “Stripper Christmas Summer Weekend”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the club (Oh yeah, oh yeah) / Was the sound of bikers moaning as their crotches got rubbed (Oh yeah, oh yeah) / Come on, baby, hey / Stripper Christmas summer weekend every day / She liked heavy metal like her head was a hole (Oh yeah, oh yeah) / And they played heavy metal and she spun on a pole (Oh yeah, oh yeah).”

#### Green Jelly – “Green Jelly Xmas”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“Jingle bells my stealing elves are reindeer and my sleigh / Jingle bells, my prostate smells your chick pissed on my leg.”

#### Alice Cooper – “Santa Claws is Coming To Town”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“He knows where you live / He knows when your window’s open / He knows what’s under your bed.”

#### Twisted Sister – “Heavy Metal Christmas (Twelve Days of Christmas)”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“On my heavy metal Christmas, my true love gave to me / Eight pentagrams / Seven leather jackets / Six cans of hairspray / Five skull earrings / Four quarts of Jack / Three studded belts / Two pairs of spandex pants / And a tattoo of Ozzy.”

#### Psychostick – “N. O. E. L.”
**Lyrics That Will Make Your Family Leave:**
“Everywhere you go / Christmas songs are playing all the time / Never-ending marathon, enough of It’s a Wonderful Life / Everybody’s going caroling, you better run and hide / Awkwardly they harmonize, I contemplate suicide.”

If you’re set on keeping the holiday vibe joyful and family-friendly, it’s probably best to steer clear of these festive metal tracks. But if your goal is to clear the room, by all means—crank them up loud!
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Sean Griffin’s “I’m In Love For Christmas”

“I’m In Love For Christmas” marks a seasonal retreat from the more boisterous, extroverted vibe of Sean Griffin’s last two singles, “People Are Mad” and “Rocks Off.” The song is about as sentimental as it gets for Griffin—and it’s also more than 20 years old.

“I wrote it in December of 2004, just after meeting my wife,” says the frontman for Celtic punk rockers the Ruffians. “I was scheduled to play live on New York radio station WFUV’s Irish show that morning, and I ended up writing the whole thing about an hour before going on air. We’d only met that October, so our first Christmas together was full of hope, chaos, and magic. We were married the following April.”

More recently, Griffin just finished a tour of the U.K., where he previewed songs from his upcoming 2026 solo album. For the time being, it’s back to raising his substantial brood and generally holding down the fort in Kingston, N.Y.

“Two decades and six kids later, ‘I’m In Love For Christmas’ feels even more special,” he says. “It’s a little love letter to that first Christmas, and to every other we’ve shared since.”

We’re proud to premiere Sean Griffin’s “I’m In Love For Christmas.”
— Hobart Rowland
https://magnetmagazine.com/2025/11/06/magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-sean-griffins-im-in-love-for-christmas/

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