Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2021 - Part Two

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Yuletunes 2021 marches on with two more mixes... 

You can find all the previous Yuletunes here on this new Yule Tunes page.

The holiday season isn’t always bright lights and joy—here is a mix of heavy and dark Yule Tunes for your doomed celebrations.

#	Artist	Track
1	Santa Sabbath	Santa Sabbath
2	Christopher Lee	The Little Drummer Boy
3	Evil Blizzard	We Three Kings
4	Big Lich	Bargains Imprisoning Me (Holiday Single)
5	50 Helens	Santa Said This
6	I See Hawks In L.A.	God Rest Ye Merry War Pigs
7	Angry Snowmans	Ebeneezer Uber Alles
8	Krampusnacht	Krampusnacht
9	Two Minutes to Late Night	Stab Into Christmas
10	Al Jourgensen	It’s Always Christmas Time
11	Santa Sabbath	Frosty the Snowman
12	Earth	Hell’s Winter

A more traditional mix of songs both old and new featuring folk, acoustic goth and neo-folk Yule Tunes—suitable for all holiday family gatherings.

#	Artist	Track
1	Shirley Collins	The Christmas Song
2	the Pines	Chalet
3	Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis	Christmas Night
4	Thanatos	The First Noel
5	Forest Mountain Hymnal	The Snow Carol
6	Unto Ashes	King of Frost
7	All My Faith Lost…	In the Bleak Midwinter
8	Alison Cotton	Coventry Carol
9	John Doan	O Christmas Tree
10	Jethro Tull	A Christmas Song
11	Low	Silent Night
12	The Young Tradition with Shirley and Dolly Collins	The Holly Bears the Crown

Albums to be Thankful for...

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— Weird Christmas (@weird_christmas) November 23, 2020

I am a big fan of Bandcamp, as amply demonstrated by my collection there—I make about 90% of my music purchases there, occasionally buying direct from an artist or from Amazon when the black hole of american capitalism is the only place an album is available, but for the vast, vast majority of my purchases, I use Bandcamp.

More a music and merch store for artists and labels than a streaming service, though Bandcamp does offer some streaming—Bandcamp seems, from what I have heard and can tell, to actually pay artists! So, when you make a purchase you don't have to worry about the musicians only making fractions of fractions of a penny. Plus, since the COVID-19 pandemic began, they have been doing Bandcamp Friday, where they waive their fees and funnel that money to the artist instead.

And, in this turbulent year, there have been a bunch of bands and labels that have put out albums on Bandcamp where the proceeds went to a worthy cause, so without further ado, here are a slew of albums you can pick up on Bandcamp that I both heartily recommend and that also will pass on some of your money to a cause worth supporting! Plus for almost all of these albums, you can stream one or more tracks for a taste before you buy.

25 albums that support worthy causes & are worth checking out!