Well, today is a good day to be a Metal Injection Junkie as we are launching our second contest of the day! To celebrate the release of their awesome video, the people behind Brutal Legend have kindly given us a rare Eddie Riggs figurine to give away (only 1,000 of these have been made) as well as some cool tees for the runners up! Sweet, right?

Entering is easy. Simply leave a comment on this post naming the actor who voices Eddie Riggs (easy, right?) and you will be entered into the contest. We will contact one person at random to win the grand prize figurine and then 2 runners up to each win a shirt. So enter already!

You also have two other chances to win! Our friends over at MetalSucks and Metal Insider are holding similar contests. Do it!

We are so pumped to bring you the exclusive video premiere of the new video from HAIL OF BULLETS for the title track of their recent EP release, Warsaw Rising. The EP is only available digitally in the States, but the fine people at Metal Blade have two copies stashed exclusively to giveaway to the Metal Injection Junkies!

How can you win this rare EP? Simply leave a comment on this post with the name of the vocalist of this legendary act. Do it! We'll randomly pick two winners.

Hey? Do you live near Vegas and have nothing to do Halloween weekend? Perhaps we can help! We are giving a pair of tickets away to the biggest horror convention seemingly evaaahr. It goes down Friday, October 30th through Sunday evening, November 1st at the Palms Casino Resort. The pass will get you in to meet horror legends like Malcolm McDowell George A. Romero, John Waters and more! Full details of the convention at this location. To enter, leave a comment mentioning one George A. Romero movie!

(Please note, these passes will be to the convention portion of the weekend only, not to any of the live concerts like Slipknot. Also, you will be responsible for your own lodging should you win!) (more…)

We consider ourselves pot connoisseurs. Which is why it bums us out to no end that we can't attend this year's Cypress Hill Smoke Out, featuring performances by SLIPKNOT, DEFTONES, CYPRESS HILL, BAD BRAINS and more. Plus, what seems like and endless amount of weed. But our loss is your gain because we are giving away a pair of tickets to the show to one lucky Metal Injection junkie! How do you enter? Just leave a comment on this post stating your favorite strain of weed. We will randomly pick one winner and mail you the pair of tickets. Sorry international junkies, this one is for US visitors only. Enjoy and stop bogarting the j!

We have a killer prize pack this week for you. Three lucky winners will receive a 10-pack of CDs courtesy of Prosthetic Records. There are some fucking gems in here, including cds from GOJIRA, ALL THAT REMAINS, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD, BENEATH THE MASSACRE, SCALE THE SUMMIT and more.

Simply leave a comment on this post with the identity of the person in the below obscured image and one person will be randomly chosen from the correct answers to win this killer prize pack. Guess the image below and win big!

Please note: Comments are hidden to prevent cheating!

Fresh off their epic performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, we are teaming with SHADOWS FALL for a killer prize for this edition of the Guessing Game.

Simply leave a comment on this post with the identity of the person in the below obscured image and one person will be randomly chosen from the correct answers to win a free copy of SHADOWS FALL's new release, Retribution, in stores September 15th as well as a sick t-shirt. Check out the prize to your right. Guess the image below and win big!

Note: Comments are hidden to prevent cheating

We can't shutup about the MI-sponsored Planet Caravan festival, going down September 18th and 19th and we ain't about to stop now. The promoters of the show have given us a pretty sweet prize pack for one lucky junkie. The prize pack includes: a pair of weekend passes, a custom screen printed poster and t-shirt (featuring the above artwork) and a signed drum head from CLUTCH drummer Jean-Paul Gaster. Is that a prize pack or what? To enter, simply leave a comment with your full name and the year in which Clutch's self-titled CD came out. One lucky winner will be announced on Monday. (Comments are hidden to prevent cheating)

WINNER ANNOUNCED: Congratulations to MI Junkie trailofsmoke for winning the prize. The correct answer was 1995! A few of you actually got it wrong.

Oh fuck yes! One of the biggest shows of the summer (in NY at least) is happening this Friday night with the epic beginning of the Blackened Music Series which will feature REPULSION playing their Decibel Hall of Fame record Horrified in its entirety, plus PIG motherfucking DESTORYER and BRUTAL TRUTH. We really don't need to try to sell you on this, because the show fuckin' sells itself. One thing is for certain, we are definitely heading down there and we are bringing a shit load of cameras with us to tape every nugget of the Brooklyn Masonic Temple.

But, we don't want to go alone! The promoters of the Blackened Music Series were gracious enough to let us give away one pair of tickets to the show so that one of you junkies (and a friend) can have your minds completely blown.

How do you enter you ask? Just leave a comment with your full name AND the name of the bassist of Brutal Truth. We will randomly pick one name on Tuesday Night and announce the winner on Wednesday. UPDATE: TheLSDRaptor wins the tickets! Thanks for playing. Of course if you don't want to test your luck against other junkies, tickets are still available for purchase.

Since our first Name That Tune was so successful, we thought we'd do it again! But first, lets announce the winners of the last contest. MI junkies saturnine23, neonwa and cckn.metalfuck correctly guessed that the last Name That Tune was GOJIRA's "Toxic Garbage Island". Congrats guys!

THIS WEEK'S PRIZE
We have a killer giveaway this week! One grand prize winner (who correctly names the riff below) will receive a SUICIDE SILENCE No Time To Bleed“Maximum Bloodshed” Box Set with bonus DVD, bonus studio track, 5 collector cards, fold-out poster & mail-in t-shirt offer (pictured to the right). There are only 10,000 of these and you can have one! Two runner-ups will be chosen to receive a standard copy of the new CD, which is in stores now. So, listen to the riff and if you know who it is, leave us a comment…

Note: We have hidden all comments to prevent cheating. Also the winners are chosen randomly, not first come, first serve.

Podcast: Download

We here at Metal Injection know times are tough. But we also know that you absolutely NEED to see Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Trivium, The Black Dahlia Murder, Killswitch Engage and all the other awesome bands who are playing this summer's Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival. That's why, in these troubled economic times, Metal Injection is hooking up one lucky winner for EACH tour date with a pair of tickets to see the biggest tour of the summer! Are you stoked? We are stoked!

How do you enter? All you have to do is leave a comment copying and pasting the exact tour date you want to go to from the itinerary below (after the jump) and include one sentence with something silly on why you should win. We don't want a life story here, just one sentence, and we know you're broke, so come up with something better! Who is your hook up? Metal Fucking Injection! Tour dates after the jump… (more…)

The fine people at Relapse Records have provided us with a killer prize for the first edition of Name That Tune. The rules are simple. Stream the snippet of music below and leave a comment with the name of the band and the title of the song from the snippet. From the correct answers, we will choose one grand prize winner to get a Coalesce prize pack consisting of a t-shirt, poster and their new, incredible CD, Ox. Two runners up will also be chose and will win a Ox CD and poster! Good luck…

Please note: We have hidden the comments to prevent cheating…

Podcast: Download

That's right! Just like we promised this weekend, we are giving away 5 (yes FIVE!) copies of this new awesome documentary. How do you enter? All you have to do is a leave a comment answering the following question:

Who was the original vocalist of Iron Maiden?

That's it! Leave a comment and you can win! And, we aren't the only place you can win, our friends at MetalSucks, SMNnews and MetalInsider are doing similar giveaways, giving you multple chances to win! So enter today!

It's that time again. You know the deal. Metal Injection sponsors an awesome tour, we get tickets to each stop of the tour, we pass those tickets along to our loyal junkies. This is your chance people! We are giving away a pair of tickets to each stop of the "most extreme tour of the Summer." And, look at those logos! Those are some extreme bands. How do you enter to win? It's simple. Look at the tour dates (after the jump) copy and paste the line with the date and location of the show you want to go to and then include one sentence on why you should win. The funniest responses will win! Anybody can enter. So hurry up! Contest ends before the first stop of the tour. Here are the dates: (more…)

You know that when Metal Injection sponsors a tour, we hook up our junkies, and Blackendfest is no different. The trek, which features the inventors of grim, MAYHEM along with MARDUK, CEPHALIC CARNAGE, CATTLE DECAPITATION and WITHERED will make its way across the country (and into Canada) and we're giving away a pair of tickets to each stop. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post, copying and pasting the date and location for the show you'd like to attend, and feel free to include a sentence with a goofy reason for why should win. But hurry up, this contest only lasts one week. We will be picking winners next weekend…

May 21 – The Fillmore at Irving Plaza – New York, NY
May 23 – Ground Zero – Spartanburg, SC
May 24 – Club Firestone – Orlando, FL
May 26 – Numbers – Houston, TX
May 27 – The White Rabbit – San Antonio, TX
May 28 – Chic’s – El Paso, TX
May 29 – Sunshine Theater – Albuquerque, NM
May 30 – Clubhouse – Tempe, AZ
May 31 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA
June 2 – House of Blues – Hollywood, CA
June 3 – DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA
June 4 – Hawthorne Theater – Portland, OR
June 5 – Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
June 6 – Knitting Factory Concert House – Boise, ID
June 7 – Cervantes Masterpiece – Denver, CO
June 9 – Station 4 – St Paul, MN
June 11 – House Of Blues – Chicago, IL
June 12 – Peabody’s – Cleveland, OH
June 13 – The Majestic Theater – Detroit, MI
June 14 – The Opera House – Toronto, ONT
June 15 – Les Foufounes Electriques – Montreal, QC

Yes, it's that time again. Time for Metal Injection to once again hook you up. As we previously announced, we are one of the proud sponsors of this year's RELAPSE CONTAMINATION FEST which will feature the mighty OBSCURA, GRAVES OF VALOR and ABYSMAL DAWN. To celebrate, we are giving away a pair of tickets to each stop of the tour. Additionally, one grand prize winner will receive he latest CD from each band: GRAVES OF VALOR: Salarian Gate, OBSCURA – Cosmogenesis, and ABYSMAL DAWN – Programmed to Consume and an official Relapse Records Patch, Button Set, and Relapse Cult T-Shirt.

How do you enter? All you have to do is leave a comment on this post, copy and paste the date/location you want to attend and then write one sentence explaining why you should win. Note that humor wins over begging every time! So what are you waiting for? Here are the dates, comment away:

Apr. 28 – Birmingham, AL – The Nick
Apr. 29 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
Apr. 30 – Nashville, TN – The Muse
May 01 – Owensboro, KY – The Brothers
May 02 – Indianapolis, IN – Zanies Too
May 03 – Neenaw, WI – Revolutions (GRAVES OF VALOR, ABYSMAL DAWN, special guest)
May 04 – Chicago, IL – Reggie's Rock Club
May 05 – Southgate, MI – Modern Exchange
May 06 – Cleveland, OH – Peabody's Pirate's Cove (free show)
May 07 – Syracuse, NY – The Lost Horizon (w/ special guest)
May 08 – Pittsburgh, PA – 31st St Pub (with HERO DESTROYED)
May 09 – Allentown, PA – The Sterling Hotel (w/ special guest)
May 10 – Boston, MA – The Church of Boston
May 11 – Danbury, CT – Bill Baloney's (GRAVES OF VALOR, ABYSMAL DAWN, special guest)
May 12 – New York, NY – Fontana's
May 13 – Baltimore, MD – Talking Head
May 14 – Philadelphia, PA – Broad Street Ministry

Oh shit. The MI/Sick Drummer BLAST OFF II has just gotten bigger. We will be giving away a set of Sabain B8 Cymbals courtesy of the SEVENTH VOID (featuring Johnny Kelly of TYPE O NEGATIVE on the drums). What is the Blast Off, you ask? It's a video competition where all you have to do is upload a 3 minute video of your best drumming and the editors of Sick Drummer Magazine will pick a winner in each category. Winners will receive either the afformentioned Sabian cymbal set, Trick Dominator double bass pedals or a Nuclear Blast prize pack. So what are you waiting for? Get to your drums, tape yourself, and then upload the fuck out of your video!

Also, make sure to pick up SEVENTH VOID's new CD, Heaven is Gone when it's release on 4/21 out on Big Vin Records.

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PREVIOUS GAME
Last time's game must have been really easy, because out of 84 entries, only two were incorrect. So we picked four correct answers at random, and a big congratulations goes out to MI junkies TaronKeim, Projectjx, moon)blood and Dezzeldriver. They will each be recieving a Best of Obituary CD released by Roadrunner Records

THIS WEEK'S GAME
This week, we made it a bit more difficult. 5 people who answer correctly will be randomly chosen to win a copy of DEVILDRIVER's The Last Kind Words. All you have to do is properly guess who it is in the image below. Leave a comment if you think you know the answer.

Know who this is? Leave a comment to enter!

This contest is sponsored by:

A few months ago, we teamed with Sick Drummer Magazine to bring you the Blast Off. The first competition was won by Luke Dumke (signed) and Alex Bent (unsigned). Now it's time to do it all again.

We welcome any and all drummers ( signed and unsigned) for the second version of this contest. All you have to do is upload a 3 minute video of your best drumming and the editors of Sick Drummer Magazine will pick a winner in each category. Winners will receive either Trick Dominator double bass pedals or a Nuclear Blast prize pack. You have until April 12th to come up with the most blast-tastic drum video you can. Click here for the official contest rules and upload your video here.