The normie content you expect: let’s celebrate a very metal Christmas! Throw up the horns and hail Santa! What’s the best way you can think of to celebrate Christmas as a metalhead? By the way, there is no other content than this; it is simply the sleazy adult version of those reaction papers you wrote back in your mediocre high school education.

The content we offer: metalheads are realists + mythologists + transcendentalists + nihilists + naturalists, and so we do not really care if you celebrate Christmas either way, or maybe you retrieve some ancient mythology and celebrate Jul. But not caring either way means we do not really intend to have a “metal Christmas,” since metal and Christ are incompatible.

Instead, we accept — like any hard skeptical realist! — that culture is important, holidays are important, and even all that gross Christmas food is an important signal. It can be enjoyed or ignored. There are no easy answers to the problems that we face, but turning everything into an egofest for consumers is a deflection or distraction, not an answer or pursuit.

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