{"id":4852,"date":"2014-12-11T08:44:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T08:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/12\/11\/christopher-lee-releases-heavy-metal-christmas-single\/"},"modified":"2014-12-11T08:44:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T08:44:32","slug":"christopher-lee-releases-heavy-metal-christmas-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/12\/11\/christopher-lee-releases-heavy-metal-christmas-single\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Lee releases heavy metal Christmas single"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5a\/Christopher_Lee_at_the_Berlin_International_Film_Festival_2013.jpg\/220px-Christopher_Lee_at_the_Berlin_International_Film_Festival_2013.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"326\" \/><br \/>Christopher Lee, better known as the veteran actor of more than 300 films, has    released a heavy metal Christmas song. What is even better than the above sentence is that this is not Lee&#8217;s first    outing on the festive metal song circuit, following his 2012 debut, A Heavy    Metal Christmas, which featured covers of Little Drummer Boy and Silent    Night, and 2013&#8217;s A Heavy Metal Christmas Too which featured a &#8220;hellish&#8221;    cover of Jingle Bells.    <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<p>His new single, Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing, is a reinterpretation of Hark!    The Herald Angels Sing which sings of &#8220;glory to the metal king&#8221; in    between enormous riffs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\">\n<p>Lee, 92, who is clearly having more fun than most nonagenerians of his    generation, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s light-hearted, joyful and fun. It&#8217;s a band    singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its    listeners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\">\n<p>The    metal website Blabbermouth reports that Lee has once again teamed up    with the guitarist Hedras Ramos, with whom he worked on the 2013 album    Charlemagne: The Omens of Death. Lee had previously worked with Judas    Priest&#8217;s Richie Faulkner.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>In Christmas 2013, his single Jingle Hell reached 18 in the US Billboard    charts, making Lee the oldest-ever performer in the charts, a record    previously held by Tony Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At my age, the most important thing for me is to keep active by doing    things that I truly enjoy. I do not know how long I am going to be around,    so every day is a celebration and I want to share it with my fans,&#8221; Lee    said.<\/p>\n<p>His single comes in a week that has also seen the heavy    metal band Slayer rescuing a tiny kitten, and a Christmas    medley by the superhero group, The Avengers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Lee, better known as the veteran actor of more than 300 films, has released&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}