Punk Goes Christmas: Deluxe Edition is the seventeenth album in the Punk Goes... series by created by Fearless. It is a re-release of the Punk Goes Christmas that was released back in 2013. It contains the same songs as the 2013 version with four bonus track added as well as a slightly different track listing layout. Punk Goes Christmas: Deluxe Edition is one of the few albums which contains both covers as well as original songs. It is not however the first Punk Goes... album to feature an original song though, back in 2000 on the first ever Punk Goes... album Punk Goes Metal the song "Why Rock?" which was cover by the punk band The Aquabats! was credited to the fictional band Leather Pyrate but was in fact an original by The Aquabats! themselves. The only other albums to contain original songs besides Punk Goes Metal are Punk Goes Acoustic and Punk Goes Acoustic 2 which contain all original songs done acoustically. This album was released on November 27, 2015 as a digital download on both Google Play and Apple Music as well as iTunes.
Background and release
Punk Goes Christmas: Deluxe Edition was announced on November 18, 2015 as the seventeenth album. Along with the announcement was a video containing a snippet of one of the new songs on the album which was a cover of the Home Alone Theme originally by John Williams covered by American metalcore band August Burns Red. Along with that song three of the other songs were announced two being covers and one being an original song. The two covers were "Sleigh Ride" originally by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra covered by the band This Wild Life and the second cover being "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" originally by actress/singer the late Judy Garland being covered by Christian rock band Being as an Ocean. The original song was "12 Days of a Pop-Punk Christmas" by YouTube comedian and musician Jarrod Alonge credited to fictitious band Sunrise Skater Kids, the song is a parody of the 12 Days of Christmas. Surprisingly the re-release had much more media attention than that of the 2013 album. The album was announced by many magazines such as Alternative Press and Rock Sound magazine. The album was released the day after Thanksgiving on November 27, 2015 as a digital download only.
