ICE NINE KILLS Announce 'A Very Vicious Christmas' EP Featuring Twisted Takes On Christmas Classics

ICE NINE KILLS will be delivering an early holiday gift this year as they announce the release of "A Very Vicious Christmas", an eight-track collection of Christmas classics recorded for Halloween Horror Nights' "Terror Tram Starring Art The Clown" at Universal Studios Hollywood. The EP will be released digitally on November 9 via Fearless Records.

Revealed yesterday at the band's annual Silver Scream Con in Worcester, Massachusetts, "A Very Vicious Christmas" takes the music beyond the blood-soaked Universal backlot for the first time. Across the eight-track collection, ICE NINE KILLS put their brutal, twisted spin on Christmas classics, turning joyful holiday cheer into a veritable blood-soaked nightmare.

Speaking on "A Very Vicious Christmas", ICE NINE KILLS frontman Spencer Charnas shares: "The ICE NINE KILLS 'A Very Vicious Christmas' EP is our early holiday gift to you all. When tasked with creating a musical accompaniment for Art The Clown's assault on the 'Terror Tram', we immediately understood the assignment. Art loves Christmas. Who better to distastefully dismember some Christmas classics than ICE NINE KILLS?

"With lyrics like oh what fun it is to die in a one hearse open slay' and he'll grind your limbs like sausage meat,' we weren't sure we'd find a children's choir whose parents would approve, but thankfully the spirit of the season prevailed.

"We're forever honored that 'Terrifier' writer/director Damien Leone, producer Phil Falcone and team invited us into their sandbox of bloodshed.

"Halloween Horror Nights is one of our favorite destinations, and this year it's sounding even more festive."

In "Terror Tram Starring Art The Clown", the demented killer has arrived at the historic Universal Studios Hollywood backlot with a blood-soaked bag of presents, realized he is far too early for Christmas and hijacked the tram for his own holiday celebration. The experience runs select nights through Sunday, November 1. Orlando, Florida Halloween Horror Nights attendees can have their own terrifying encounters with Art The Clown at the Downtown Clowntown scare zone.

"A Very Vicious Christmas" deepens a relationship between ICE NINE KILLS, Art The Clown and the "Terrifier" universe that has already produced one of the band's most successful releases. "A Work Of Art", their official song from "Terrifier 3", has amassed nearly 60 million streams after debuting at No. 3 and spending 18 weeks on Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs chart. Its blood-soaked music video, featuring Art actor David Howard Thornton, debuted alongside the movie in theaters nationwide.

The collection arrives in the middle of another major October horror activation for ICE NINE KILLS. The band's "Welcome To Horrorwood" AMC Thrills & Chills film series, created with AMC Theatres and horror entertainment brand Bloody Disgusting, is now underway at approximately 300 AMC locations across the United States. Inspired by "The Silver Scream" and "The Silver Scream 2: Welcome To Horrorwood", the month-long series brings "Hostel", "Friday The 13th", "American Psycho", "Pet Sematary" and "The Crow" back to the big screen. Each screening opens with a custom introduction from Spencer Charnas and closes with the ICE NINE KILLS music video inspired by the film.

The two October takeovers continue a formidable run through modern horror for ICE NINE KILLS. "Twisting The Knife" (featuring Mckenna Grace),heard over the closing credits of "Scream 7", delivered the band's first No. 1 at Active Rock Radio and first No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. The track also topped Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs and Hard Rock Digital Song Sales charts. "Hell Or High Slaughter (Grave Diggler Pt. 2)" appears in "Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come", while "Play Dead" was created for Dead By Daylight's 10th anniversary alongside an in-game ICE NINE KILLS collection.

"A Very Vicious Christmas" track listing:

01. Carol Of The Bells
02. Jingle Bells
03. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
04. O Christmas Tree
05. Joy To The World
06. The Twelve Days Of Christmas
07. Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies (Full Band Version)
08. Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies (Orchestral Version)

Photo credit: F. Scott Schafer