Vince isn’t here, so I guess it falls to me to take over his regular “Neilstein SoundScam” column… BWA-HA-HA!!!

Some of the more noteworthy sales stats from the latest Top Hard Music charts after the jump!

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Red State Radio Rock reigned supreme once again last week on the increasingly meaningless Soundscam charts. Metal fans won’t find much to be happy about as none of the albums we highlighted last week charted, but there are some interesting stats about Ozzy Osbourne and others after the jump.

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Congratulations to MetalSucks Maniacs Nick Hochmuth and Alexander Holmes. They correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Crimson Massacre, and each win a copy of Black Stone Cherry’s Folklore and Superstition for their trouble. Rock out with your cocks out, bruthas!

Don’t cry if you didn’t win – I still have one more copy of the CD to give away, courtesy the cool cats at Roadrunner Records. All you have to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail with your answer, your name and address at axl AT metalsucks DOT net. We’ll randomly select a winner from everyone who gets it right, and announce his or her name next week.

This week’s logo was suggested by Ryan Benjamin. Thank you, Ryan Benjamin!

-AR

You fail me again.

No one correctly identified last week’s logo, which belongs to the charmingly monikered band Female Nose Breaker (How would you guys feel about a band called Male Nut Buster? Recockulous.). Mercifully, none of you guessed Slipknot, Korn, or Atreyu, either, so I guess we’re making progress.

Still, I’ve got these two copies of Black Stone Cherry’s Folklore and Superstition to give away, courtesy the very nice people at Roadrunner, and I’d love if a couple of you would please take them off my hands. All you have to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail with your answer, your name and address at axl AT metalsucks DOT net. We’ll randomly select two winners from everyone who gets it right, and announce his or her names next week.

This week’s logo was suggested by the reader known as “bear wizard.” Thank you, almighty hybrid of powerful things.

-AR

Horns up to Eric Crescimano and MS Maniac TrapThem, who both correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Blasphetized. They each win a copy of Black Stone Cherry’s Folklore and Superstition. Enjoy those, dudes!

Don’t get in a tizzy if you didn’t win this week; the fine folks at Roadrunner Records have bestowed upon two (2) more copies to give away this week!

All you have to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail with your answer, your name and address at axl AT metalsucks DOT net. We’ll randomly select two winners from everyone who gets it right, and announce his or her names next week.

This week’s logo was suggested by reader Joshua Jacobs. Thanks, brutha!

-AR

The answer to the last logo was Necros Christos. That’s not exactly the most original name for a metal band with an unreadable logo, but the name of our winner is pretty unique: Samial Chamberlain. I’ve never known anyone named Samial, but I think it’s a pretty cool name. And now Samial has won a copy of Coal Chamber’s self-titled album. So there’s that.

This week the good folks at Roadrunner have bestowed two (2) copies of Black Stone Cherry’s Folklore and Superstition to give away.  All you have to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail with your answer, your name and address at axl AT metalsucks DOT net. We’ll randomly select two winners from everyone who gets it right, and announce his or her names next week.

Thanks to Tim McElroy for supplying this week’s logo…

-AR

Well well well. I knew last week’s logo was pretty hard, but I thought some of you mo’fo’s would pull through. Alas, only two MetalSucks Maniacs, Jason McFarlane and Brandon Kirby, correctly identified the logo as belonging to the outfit known as Satan’s Revenge on Mankind. Jason and Brandon each win a copy of Blackstone Cherry’s new album, Folklore and Superstition, which comes out tomorrow on Roadrunner Records.

But I had four copies of this new disc to give away, which means I still have two left! All you have to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail with your answer, your name and address at axl [at] metalsucks.net. We’ll randomly select two winners from everyone who gets it right, and announce their names next Monday.

This week’s logo is the first one ever submitted by a member of the band itself. I obviously can’t tell you his name until next week because then you could just seek the band out that way, but thanks, brutha… you know who are…

-AR

MetalSucks Maniac Meghan Rafferty was literally the only person to correctly identify last week’s logo as belonging to Floridian grindcorers Nespithe, so she wins not one but TWO Sepultura albums, Against and Nation, on a single awesome disc. Jam out with your clam out, Meghan.

This week those sexy beasts over at Roadrunner have supplied us with no one, not two, not three, but FOUR copies of Blackstone Cherry’s new album, Folklore and Superstition, to give away. This album doesn’t even hit stores ’til August 19, so if ya forgot to pre-order your copy, well, here’s a chance to win one for free!

All you have to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail with your answer, your name and address at axl [at] metalsucks.net. We’ll randomly select four winners from everyone who gets it right, and announce their names next Monday.

This week’s logo was recommended by a reader who chose not to include his or her name in the e-mail. So, um, whomever you are, thanks for making my life a little easier! It’s a hard one this week, so I’ll give you a hint: the band’s name has four words in it. Good luck…

-AR