Ice Nine Kills Premiere New Video For "Merry Axe-Mas" From Latest Album "The Silver Scream"

Ice Nine Kills debut a new music video for their track “Merry Axe-Mas” off their latest full-length “The Silver Scream“. This song takes inspiration from the 1984 slasher film ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night‘.

States the band’s frontman Spencer Charnas:

“‘Silent Night, Deadly Night‘ is one of my all time favorite slasher flicks. In our song and video for, ‘Merry Axe-Mas,’ I wanted to pay tribute to the film’s brilliant combination of sleaze, holiday cheer, absurdity, and vicious gore. Released in 1984 at the height of the ’80s slasher craze, the film’s axe wielding Santa marketing campaign threw uptight parents and the PC police into an unholy rage.”

“Angered families staged protests in front of theaters and PTA groups across the country petitioned for the film’s banishment. Tri Star Pictures subsequently caved and ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night‘ was pulled from theaters after only one week. However, all the negative publicity only fueled the forbidden fruit factor and the infamous film quickly gained cult status. This story just goes to show you that if you try and suppress something, it’s only more likely to rear its (decapitated) head.”