Poe and the Carol of the Bells

Just in time for Christmas, here’s Trans-Siberian Orchestra with a tune called “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24”, which strikes me as a sort of unholy cross between “The Carol of the Bells” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells”. I hasten to add, there’s no actual Poe here; but I can’t listen to this without thinking of the Brazen Bells:

Hear the loud alarum bells,
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!