Richard Christy is more metal than you. In addition to drumming for his own project, Charred Walls of The Damned, he’s previously bashed the skins for Death and Iced Earth. In between all that he also found the time to be one of Howard Stern’s sidekicks. The guy’s got one hell of a CV, make no mistake.

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What is your favourite Christmas song?
‘White Christmas’ by Zakk Wylde – a beautiful acoustic version of a classic Christmas song.

What is your favourite Christmas movie?
It’s a toss up between National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Bad Santa, the original Black Christmas, and A Christmas Story. I love them all too much to choose.

Black Christmas – for when you need a little boost of seasonal cheer:

What is the most metal Christmas present you’ve either given or received?
Twisted Sister’s Stay Hungry and Van Halen’s 1984 on cassette in my stocking for Christmas 1984, when I was 10 years old.

What is your best memory of 2011?
When I got married on July 30, the DJ played Iron Maiden’s ‘Run to the Hills’ at the reception!

What is your favourite album of 2011?
Amon Amarth’s Surtur Rising. That album rules!

What will your New Year Resolution be?
To discover tons of new metal albums and tons of new craft beers in 2011 and to tour the world with Charred Walls of the Damned!

If all those mad prophecies about 2012 being the end of the world comes true, how do you want the apocalypse to manifest itself?
It would be cool if demons would crawl out of Lemmy’s warts while Motörhead played on the biggest stage ever created and the world would end while they played ‘Killed By Death’.

What role would you take in a nativity play?
The not-so-Little Drummer Boy.

2011 has been a year of revolution and upheaval – what do you think will happen in 2012?
Heavy Metal will rule the world.

Who is the ugliest person you’ve kissed under the mistletoe?
Me, when I kissed a mirror.

What do you think of Lulu?
I think it’s pretty funny-sounding. I actually have a friend named Skip Skiffington who’s a singer and sounds similar to Lou Reed and my metalhead friends and I have a band with him called Skip Skiffington and The Elite (you can search it on Youtube – the song ‘Weiner Roast’ rules) and his music and singing style sounds a lot like Lulu, so I can appreciate what Metallica and Lou Reed are doing. It makes me happy to know that Skip Skiffington’s been doing that style since the late 1980s!