Hadn't heard that before. On checking "Claws" out I thought "eh just another Residents influenced band" but as the album went on I noticed that there was a lot more to it. Thanks mate.

Twisted Sister - "Deck the Halls" (They have an entire Christmas album, but this seems to be the best one.)

Manowar - "Silent Night"

Halford - "We Three Kings" (Also has an entire Christmas album!)

Amon Amarth - "Jingle Bells" (Seriously.)

Alice Cooper - "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"

King Diamond - "No Presents for Christmas"

Dio/Tony Iommi - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"

Lemmy Kilmister, Billy F. Gibbons, Dave Grohl - "Run Rudolph Run"

GWAR - "Stripper Christmas Summer Weekend"

Christopher Lee - "Little Drummer Boy" (It's Christopher Lee singing a metal version of a Christmas classic, and it's quite possibly the best song I've listed.)

Santa Claus is coming to town by Bruce Springsteen sounds so awful it's weird.

The ones I've bolded were used last year in "Have yourself a Metal little Christmas", so I'm reluctant to repeat myself, but I will look into the others, esp Christopher Lee. Sounds interesting!
Yeah but just sounding awful doesn't qualify. And read the criteria in the OP again: it has to be very obscure. Don't think you could say that about the Boss.

Pretty sure I've posted this somewhere before but still;

Happy Flowers - All I Got Was Clothes For Christmas

Oh, you totally have to hear that Christopher Lee song. He sings in an opera baritone that makes it pretty unique, while still being straight-forward, badass metal. Unfortunately he also released a pretty painful symphonic metal album called Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross.

These might be too mainstream by now:

Blowfly pretty much kills this thread.

Oh I have one that nobody has probably ever heard it's called Santa Claus Came In The Spring by Benny Goodman with Joe Harris singing the lyrics..........This has to be one of the weirdest Christmas songs ever!

I like Christmas, but I also like this song. (I'm Buddhist, by the way.) But I don't have a problem with people who celebrate Christmas.


Insane Clown Posse f. ABK - I Hate Santa Claus - YouTube