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Trans-Siberian Orchestra steams towards holiday season

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, an epic musical endeavor best-known for its powerful reinterpretations of classical Christmas songs,
is on tour this winter to promote its upcoming album The Night Castle.

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra exploded on the musical scene in the mid-nineties with the release of Christmas Eve and Other Stories, a cover-album of age-old Christmas carols from “O Come, All Ye Faithful” to “Oh, Holy Night”, and other songs (not all beginning with “Oh”). Bringing their own compositions into the mix and adding heavy electric guitar to their sixty-piece orchestra, the band created an absolutely spectacular sound.

Commented one listener of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s second album, The Lost Christmas Eve,

“I ... popped the CD into the player of my car and was amazed and fell in love with what I was listening too. They take parts of our Christmas standby classic songs and spice them up a little bit with heavier sound music, that of rock and such. When talking to my friends about it I said that’s it’s kind of like the Metallica of Christmas Music.”

And the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concerts dazzle. It’s a true rock show with a twenty-someodd-member band blasting away at the audience, dry ice, and a light show done to the nines. As one reviewer summed up the experience:

“With Boston’s continuing affinity for classic rock, it is no surprise that the TSO is a perennial favorite in the city. Like Santa, the group promised they would return the same time next year possibly with some new surprises. Fans can only lament that Christmas comes but once a year.”

So if you’re feeling a heavy-metal itch when you see the snow fall, it may not be the lead paint curling and chipping but the polished steel runners of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra pulling into your city. Check out their greuling schedule on StubHub’s Trans Siberian Orchestra Tickets Page, where they’re doing multiple shows in a day.