Megadeth Go 'Thrashing Through the Snow' — rollingstone.com

Thrash metallers Megadeth put out their 14th studio album Super Collider in June, and the LP found the group testing the limits of its signature sound, namely on the banjo-infused bluegrass-metal crossover track "The Blackest Crow." Now the veteran headbangers, whose biggest hits include songs like "Symphony of Destruction" and "Peace Sells," are taking a real risk: They're releasing (gasp!) a holiday album, Thrashing Through the Snow: A Very Megadeth Christmas, on which they play teeth-gnashed aggro versions of "Frosty the Snowman," "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Do You Hear What I Hear?"

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