It might be Boxing Day but we’ve got some metal Christmas music to bring you good cheer. This time it’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, covered by Little V. This guy does a ton of covers and metal versions of songs, including like Pokemon and stuff. And Bjørn always manages to recommend them to me. They’re not too bad, but there was a stretch of anime songs where I had no idea what they were about. I should probably watch more anime so I know what’s up.

The arrangement is pretty solid, with a ton of blast beats and shreddy guitars following the melody. I’m not a fan of the vocals, it sounds a little too growly and weird. I bet if he did cleaner vocals, the song could get snuck into like the Gap’s holiday playlist and nobody would be the wiser. But it is a little fun to hear a super growl about “marshmallows for roasting.” Oooh I wonder if there’s an isolated vocals of Andy Williams’ version of the song that could get overlaid onto the instrumentation here. That would be a wild juxtaposition.

The video itself is pretty straightforward, with lots of Little V’s (Littles V?) performing all the parts to the song. And then a big thanks to his patrons who pay him to put songs like this out for everyone to listen to.