6. "The Little Drummer Boy" by Tortured Conscience. Let me tell you right now that this is one of the worst song pair-ups on the entire CD; I mean, a grindcore band trying to play "Little Drummer Boy?" It starts out, predictably enough, with some drumming before the vocals enter, and that is where it starts to go downhill really fast. All I can think about during this cover is the Little Drummer Boy going insane and attacking Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus with his drumsticks. 4/10
7. "O Come All Ye Faithful" by Hearken. Yet another miss, this time a (painfully average sounding) brutal death metal band covering "O Come All Ye Faithful." Based on the songs that were selected to be on the CD and the bands chosen to perform them, I would have thought they would have wanted to be sincere, but by this point it’s just starting to sound like a big parody CD, like a bunch of bands got together and wanted to make fun of Christmas carols by making death metal versions of them. Hopefully we’ll get some better bands coming up. 4.5/10
8. "Child Messiah" by Death Requisite. The best way to explain this band and song is good quality black metal (I didn’t think it existed either) with a guitarist who actually knows what he’s doing. IT's a pretty boring song; black metal fans would love it, but I can’t get into it. It does have a pretty cool keyboard outro though. 6/10
9. "O Holy Night" by EverSINcEve. Yeah, that’s really how they spell it, capitals and everything. I guess it’s pointing out how Eve sinned by eating the forbidden fruit, but it just looks weird. Anyway, this cover is better than the last several but still not great; the metal is catchy but the singer is terrible. His voice is all right, but he seems to have absolutely no idea how to incorporate pitch or tune into singing; hitting the correct note is a rare occurrence for him. After a while another voice, this one screaming, joins in, making it even worse. He leaves after some time and the instruments play for a bit, but this song goes on for over seven minutes! WHY? 6.5/10
10. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Take 2)" by Faithbomb. Yeah, I guess they figured Kekal didn’t do a good enough job, so they had to get someone else to give it a shot. Well, this song is worse than Kekal’s and all I can say is that I quite understand how the "bomb" got in "Faithbomb." This song is just over a minute and still manages to annoy. The singer is pretty bad, the instrumentation is of poor quality, and the guitars are almost completely overwhelmed by the drums for the whole song. 4.5/10
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