Roughly a year ago Roadrunner Records launched a beta of SignMeTo, a digital platform that allows bands to create artist profiles with streaming music, photos, videos, tour dates, a bio and all that jazz, with the added allure of the promise that actual living, breathing A&R reps for Roadrunner peruse the site regularly for the best in unsigned talent. Since then the Roadrunner tech team has made a number of modifications to the site to roll it out into the big time, and it’s bigger and better than ever.

Why am I telling you this now? In our ongoing quest to find the best unsigned metal talent the world has to offer (Exhibit A: our Unsigned and Unholy column), MetalSucks has teamed up with SignMeTo to run a contest. Once a month, I’ll be picking my favorite unsigned band from SignMeTo and writing up an article about them here on MetalSucks. That lucky chosen band will also be featured on the main page of RoadrunnerRecords.com (!) and receive a MetalSucks badge on their SignMeTo profile.

Here’s how to enter:

It couldn’t be any easier. Once you’ve created a profile for your band on SignMeTo, simply tag your profile with “MetalSucks” in the miscellaneous category (as shown here). That’s it… tag your band profile with “MetalSucks” and you’ll be entered.

While you’re at, how about landing your band an opening spot on this year’s Full Metal Texas show at SXSW in Austin? SignMeTo Roadrunner is hosting a contest for that too!

May be the best band win.

-VN