| Dead by X-Mas | |
| Cover: | Dead By X-Mas.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Hanoi Rocks |
| Album: | Self Destruction Blues |
| B-Side: | Nothing New |
| Released: | December 1981 |
| Recorded: | August 1981 |
| Genre: | Rock, hard rock, glam punk, glam rock |
| Length: | 2:58 |
| Label: | Johanna Kustannus |
| Prev Title: | Desperados |
| Prev Year: | 1981 |
| Next Title: | Love's an Injection |
| Next Year: | 1982 |
"Dead by X-Mas" is a song by the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks. The single was released prior to the band's 1982 album Oriental Beat but neither the A- or B-side were featured on an album until the band's third album, Self Destruction Blues.
The songs are well liked and were the biggest hits of Hanoi Rocks' early career. The B-side, "Nothing New", is not as well known as the A-side, "Dead by X-Mas". "Dead by X-Mas" has since been thought to be as a prediction of the death of drummer Razzle, who died in a car crash in December 1984. The chorus even has the lyrics "I'll be dead by X-mas now anyway". The lyrics tell a horror story which guitarist Andy McCoy said could happen.
A cover version was released by the Japanese Visual kei band The Piass as a bonus track on their first album, Ryouki Kousatsu Chissoku-Shi, in 1995. The song also played a role in an urban legend similar to that of Razzle's, since the vocalist and drummer, Chihiro and Hiroshi, died while filming a music video later that year. English electronic music band Sohodolls also released a cover version of the song in 2007.