Band : Halford 3
Album title : Winter Songs
Label : Metal Gods Records
Distributor : Rough Trade Benelux
Release Date : 4/12/2009
Release : CD

I heard somewhere that Rob  has always wanted to make a Christmas album, and here it is. Consisting of traditional "metalized" Christmas songs and some own songs, the full album is just over 40 minutes long. Now I didn't have a copy of the full CD but I only had the radio promo, which contains some 5 songs whereas the full album has 10 songs, but it was enough to give me an idea of what we had in store.

It must be said, all songs are well performed, but were we really expecting this.  I would just as well have been happy to wait a few more months, and that he brought us a full album, packed with own songs than this. A decent effort, but I'm afraid one that will soon be forgotten, except when you delve it out of your CD stash next Christmas, and play it while your family is relishing on the turkey.  Let's hope granddad doesn't choke on his turkey leg...cause this is other stuff then the traditional "White Christmas".

60/100

Erik Morren.