Best Gifts For Heavy Metal Music Fans This Christmas
Whether you’re shopping for new fans or super fans, this list of the best heavy metal music gifts should have something for everyone.
Need a Christmas gift for a heavy metal fan? We’ve got you covered. These are our picks for the best albums to give to metalheads this holiday season.
Def Leppard – Pyromania Super Deluxe Edition 4CD/Blu-Ray
Def Leppard’s 40th anniversary re-issue of Pyromania has been expanded as a 4CD deluxe package containing unheard demos & live shows from the era. Originally released in 1983, the album sold over 10 million copies and earned Def Leppard a prestigious diamond award early in their career. In tribute to this milestone, this deluxe edition has been executive produced by lead singer Joe Elliott and Ronan McHugh with mastering by Andy Pearce. The package expansion includes a blu-ray containing an Atmos mix of the album (overseen by Giles Martin) and a book with rare photos by Ross Halfin and new interviews with band members.
Godsmack – IV / Faceless / Awake
Godsmack has recently put a great deal of effort into getting their albums onto vinyl, meaning that fans are now able to hear new remasters of the group’s classic hits. Choose from any of the three albums below (or collect them all)!
Buy IV here.
Buy Faceless here.
Buy Awake here.
Poison – Open Up and Say Ahh!
Released in 1988, Open Up and Say… Ahh! reached number two on the US Billboard 200 charts and sold over eight million copies worldwide. It is widely regarded as one of the most iconic albums of the 1980s.
Motley Crue – The End: Live In Los Angeles 4K DVD
On December 31, 2015, legendary rock icons Mötley Crüe completed their 35-year touring career as a band with a spectacular final concert at Staples Center in their hometown of L.A., just 10 miles from the Sunset Strip where the band’s infamous and decadent career first launched. The band thrilled the sold-out arena with performances of such mega-hits as “Kickstart My Heart,” “Girls, Girls, Girls,” “Home Sweet Home” & more. Crüe fans can now relive all the action for the first time in 4K.
Def Leppard – Def Leppard, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Rock and classical royalty unite on the euphoric album Drastic Symphonies, with Def Leppard’s greatest produced tracks dramatically reimagined and sounding larger and more exhilarating than ever before. Featuring London’s iconic Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, it’s available on heavyweight 2LP vinyl in gatefold packaging.
Dio – Dreamers Never Die Deluxe Edition DVD + Blu-Ray
The definitive documentary of legendary metal icon Ronnie James Dio. Transcending the standard rock documentary and beautifully highlighting both his powerful voice and his gentle heart, Dio: Dreamers Never Die delves deep into the singer’s incredible rise from ’50s crooner to his early rock days in Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, to replacing Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath, and finally cementing his rock star status with Dio.
Metallica – 72 Seasons
Metallica’s 12th studio album, 72 Seasons clocks in at over 77 minutes and 12 tracks. It’s the band’s first full-length collection of new material since 2016.
Metallica – Yellow M Logo Cuffed Beanie
This stylish winter hat features the iconic Metallica M in yellow in front.
Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish & The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Celebrating 23 years of the #1 multi-platinum smash on remastered bone & gold color vinyl. Following up their chart topping Significant Other, Limp Bizkit returned with more of their trademark sounds. Combining rock with metal and hip-hop, this album included “Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)”, “My Way” and their Grammy Nominated “M:I-2” theme “Take A Look Around.”
Evanescence – Fallen (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Fallen is the debut studio album by Evanescence. After releasing several EPs and a demo CD, the group signed to Wind-Up Records in January 2001. The album is Evanescence’s most commercially successful album to date, selling more than seven million copies in the United States and over 17 million copies worldwide.
KISS – Off The Soundboard, Poughkeepsie, New York
KISS’s fifth authorized Soundboard live release is from the November 28, 1984 Animalize Tour show from the Mid-Hudson Civic Arena in Poughkeepsie, New York, featuring the only known soundboard recording with Mark St. John. “Young And Wasted” and “Rock And Roll All Nite” are unfortunately incomplete recordings, but due to the historical importance of this show with Mark, they’ve been included.
The Offspring – Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (15th Anniversary Limited Edition)
This 15th Anniversary Edition of The Offspring’s 2008 album Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace features a bonus 7″ single on translucent red vinyl with two new live tracks from Hellfest, a newly reimagined album cover and art lithographs for each song. The album and 7″ single includes their most popular streaming song, “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid.” Limited Edition.
Otpen – Hydra
This is the 10th anniversary edition of Otep’s sixth studio album, Hydra, a concept album based on a novel by frontwoman Otep Shamaya, titled None Shall Sleep. Originally released in 2013, Hydra was a top 10 Billboard Hard Rock Album and features the fearsome single “Apex Predator.” Exclaim! asserted, “the record is the sonic equivalent of an art installation.” Making its vinyl debut with this pressing, the 2-LP set is housed in a gatefold jacket and features an etched side-D.
