Hip-hip hooray for reader Dakota Sharer! Dakota correctly identified last week’s logoas belonging to the band Coprobaptized Cunthunter, and consequently wins a 7″ single of Van Halen’s “She’s the Woman.” Go go Dakota!

This week we have another sexcellent prize for you, courtesy of Roadrunner Records: not one but two copies of The Power Within, the latest released from everyone’s favorite trampoline-hoppin’ power metal band, Dragonforce.

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select two winners, and announce their names next week.

I can’t tell you the name of the reader who suggested this week’s logo because it’s a member of the band… but it’s a toughie…

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Horns up for reader Rachel Lachterman, who correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Gurglectomy. Rachel wins a limited edition, two-CD set copy of Cradle of Filth’s Midnight in the Labyrinth! Congrats, Rachel!!!

This week, we have another stellar prize for you to try and win: a 7″ vinyl single for Van Halen‘s “She’s the Woman,” from their new album, A Different Kind of Truth. As of this past Friday, ”She’s The Woman” is available for FREE with the purchase of  A Different Kind of Truth at participating record stores around the country. You can get a full list of participating retailers here, and watch the video for “She’s the Woman” here. Of course, you could also just download A Different Kind of Truth for a mere five bucks here, then enter this contest and keep your fingers crossed you win!

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select a winner, and announce his or her name next week.

This week’s logo was suggested by reader Devin Garvin, and it’s truly gross… best of luck to ya… remember, you’re doing it for Eddie and Diamond Dave!!!

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Congratulations to readers Ashley Ann Lombardo and “kreatorfan666.” They each correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Autopsy on the Horizon, and for their troubles, they win a copy of Job for a Cowboy’s Demonocracy (Ashley) and Allegaeon’s Formshifter (kreatorfan666.) Both albums totally slay, so you should be jealous if you didn’t win!

But now I have another super sweet prize for you! A limited edition, two-CD set copy of Cradle of Filth’s Midnight in the Labyrinth. The first disc contains “narrated nightmares” by Dani Filth himself, with additional vocals by Sarah Jezebel Deva; the second disc contains ten fan-selected tracks from the band’s first four official releases, now re-imagined as orchestral and symphonic recordings (you can check out one of those recordings, ”A Gothic Romance (Red Roses For The Devil’s Whore,” here). You can order the two-CD digipak here, the two-CD digipak and a t-shirt here, or, of course, just enter this contest and pray to The Dark Lord that you win!

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select a winner, and announce his or her name next week.

This week’s logo was suggested by reader Aldon Miller… thanks, brutha!

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Horns for reader Nick Herrmann, who correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Begging for Incest (their parents must be so proud!). For his troubles, Nick wins a copy of Deathhamer, the awesome new album from Asphyx. Congrats, Nick!

This week I have two more awesome prizes to give away, this time courtesy of the excellent folks at Metal Blade: one copy of Job for a Cowboy’s insanely good new album, Demonocracy, and one copy of Allegaeon’s pummeling new release, Formshifter (from which we’re streaming a new track,  “Twelve – Vals for the Legions,” right here). So we’ll have two winners next week — one for each album.

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select two winners, and announce their names next week.

This week’s logo was suggested by reader Ryan Streets, and it is HARD. Thanks, brah!

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Congrats to reader Jon Skollar! He correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the legendary band Weakling (yeah yeah, that was an easy one). For his troubles, Jon wins five CDs from the MetalSucks Mansion Archives! Three cheers for Jon!

This week, I have another awesome prize for you: a copy of Deathhamer, the sick new album from esteemed death metallers Asphyx!!!

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

This week’s logo was sent in by reader Daniel Goodman, and the name is in pretty poor taste, even by CUBLOTW standards. Good luck!

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Horns up for reader Katelyn Page: she correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to one of our most favoritest bands, Waking the Cadaver. For her troubles, Katelyn wins an incredible Iron Maiden En Vivo! prize pack. Enjoy it, Katelyn!

This week, I am once again unloading five CDs from MS Mansion Archives. I promise, The Devastated’s album will not be amongst them.

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

This week’s logo was sent by a reader calling himself seatdistrict…

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I’m not going to offer congratulations to reader Filipe Gomes, who correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Persecutor, because now he wins my copy of The Devastated’s Devil’s Messenger, which is a truly heinous piece of shit. I will, however, offer Mr. Gomes my thanks for getting the damn thing out of my home. I appreciate it, dude!

I’m making up for last week’s terrible prize with an absolutely STELLAR prize this week, though:  a gift pack collecting several editions of En Vivo!, the new live album from the always-mind-blowing Iron Maiden that was recorded in of over 50,000 fans at the Estadio Nacional, Santiago during the Round the World in 66 Days leg of The Final Frontier World Tour last year. This pack consists of a picture disc vinyl, a steel box DVD, a Blu-ray, and a CD of En Vivo! See? Toldja I made up for last week! You can watch clips from En Vivo! here and here, and then order any of these fine items at the links above. Or, of course, just enter this contest and pray to Eddie that you win!

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week. Best of luck…

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If you’re a fan of our Completely Unreadable Band Logo of the Week contest — and, really, who isn’t? — then this should provide you some fun for a solid, oh, five to ten minutes!

Rotten Tomatoes is now a hosting a quiz of “The Most Unreadable Metal Band Logos.” Basically, they’ve provided graphics of twenty highly illegible logos — many of which we’ve actually used for past editions of CUBLOTW — and multiple choices of answers as to what those logos say. So, the good news is, your chances of correctly identifying the band in question are that much greater, because you’ve been provided with clues. The bad news is, unlike our CUBLOTW contest, you can’t win any prizes for getting it right. C’est la vie.

Play here. And, hey, while we’re on the topic, this video of some record store employees trying to play a similar game is pretty amusing, too, if you’ve never seen it before.

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Thanks to our friend Jen for tweeting about this, thus inadvertently alerting us to its existence.

Horns up for readers Kathleen Figueroa and Josh Endres — they correctly identified last week’s logo as beloning to the band Vomitification, and for their troubles, they each win autographed copies of Enslaved, the new album from Soulfly. Congrats, Kathleen and Josh!

Normally this is the point in CUBLOTW when I’d tell you I have another awesome prize for you, but I don’t. See, I was sent a digital copy of a truly crap deathcore album called Devil’s Messenger by this band The Devastated. I reviewed the album, deleted the files from my computer, and thought I’d never have to think about it again. (Corey Mitchell agrees with me that the album sucks, by the way.)

And then a physical copy came in the mail.

I’m sure it’s no one’s fault. Some intern was probably just told to send ‘em out and whatever. But I feel like the thing is bringing bad karma to my pad, so I want to exorcise it immediately. So if you want a copy of this thing, here’s your chance. And if not, I don’t blame you.

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

Once again, Kindross sent in this week’s logo…

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Mazel tov to reader Adam Rood, who correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Stillborn Fawn. Adam wins a limited edition foil poster for The Metal Suckfest. I hope you have it framed and take good care of it, Adam — it’s one of only a hundred in the whole wide world!

This week we have another super sweet prize for you, this time courtesy of the nice folks at Roadrunner Records: two copies of Soulfly’s new album, Enslaved, which have been autographed by Max Cavalara and the rest of the band! Not too shabby, eh?

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

This week’s logo was suggested by reader Austin Hernandez. Thanks, dude!

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Raise your horns to the sky for reader Gary Naar — he correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Swallowed. For his trouble, Gary wins a prize pack for The Bridge, the new album from LA noise rockers ÆGES, including vinyl and CD copies of the album, a t-shirt, and a turntable slipmat. Congrats, Gary!

This week I have another sweet prize for you all to Hunger Games-it out over: a limited edition foil poster for The Metal Suckfest, featuring the awesome artwork of Rodney Githens from Vertebrae 33 and Metal Band Art. It basically looks like this, except it’s black and silver foil instead of all those other colors, and the band’s names are all in this real swanky font, so you can fool your friends into thinking you’re not an immature nitwit after all, even though you still are. We only printed a hundred of these and don’t have many left, so consider this a very rare chance to snag one!

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

Of course, I’m not gonna make it easy for you to win such a precious prize. This week’s logo was suggested by the reader called Kindross, and it is hard as fuck. Best o’ luck to ya!

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Horns up for reader Takao Ambe, who correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Чёрные Озёра. Yes, last week’s logo was in Russian, which was cheating, I suppose. (I also accepted the English translation of the band’s name, Black Lakes.) But some of you still managed to figure it out, so I tip my hat to you all. But only Takao gets a prize.

ANYWAY, this week I have another sweet prize for you all to Battle Royale-it out over: a limited edition foil poster for The Metal Suckfest, featuring the awesome artwork of Rodney Githens from Vertebrae 33 and Metal Band Art. It basically looks like this, except it’s black and silver foil instead of all those other colors, and the band’s names are all in this real swanky font, so you can fool your friends into thinking you’re not an immature nitwit after all, even though you still are. We only printed a hundred of these and don’t have any left, but I’m gonna be giving a few away over the course of the next several weeks. So consider this a very rare chance to snag one!

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

Of course, I’m gonna make you earn this shit. This is one of those logos that’s so hard that even I can’t read it, and I know what it allegedly says. I can’t tell you the name of the dude who sent it to me until next week ’cause he’s in the band and that would be a too-major clue, but I will give you three bigger-than-usual hints: Russian roulette, champagne, pocket watch. Best of luck!

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Congrats to reader Wayne Stevenson! He correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Ebola Zaire, and for his troubles, he wins five CDs from the MetalSucks Mansion Archives. I hope they bring you many hours of intense sexual pleasure, Wayne!

But don’t kill yourself or anything if you lost, ’cause this week, I’m unloading another five CDs from MS Mansion Archives. I promise I won’t send you a Coal Chamber CD or anything like that, ’cause I’m a nice guy, okay?

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

I am sad to say I can’t find the e-mail from whomever sent this week’s logo in, so I can’t give him (or her… but probably a him) credit, whomever he (or she but no not really) is. Sorry, dude(tte?)! I do know that the answer for this logo is, um… complicated. Yeah, let’s say that.

Good luck.

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Congrats to reader David Hillman! He correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Varg, and for his troubles, he wins five CDs from the MetalSucks Mansion Archives. Enjoy ‘em, Davey boy!

But don’t cry if you lost, ’cause this week, I’m unloading another five CDs from MS Mansion Archives. I have some fun stuff lying around, so enter this contest if you wanna take it off my hands.

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

This week’s logo was suggested by the reader known only as “Metal’s Eve.” Thanks, whomever you are!

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Congrats to readers Anthony Gonzalez, Derek Blankenship, and Tracy Peach. They each correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Bohemian Grave — not ”Bohemian Grove,” as many of you guessed — and for their troubles, Anthony, Derek, and Tracy each win a CD copy of Die Wege Der Lust, the new full-length from Mexican goregrinders Rottenness. Enjoy that shit, kids! It’s gross.

This week I’m unloading another five CDs from MS Mansion Archives. I have some fun stuff lying around, so enter this contest if you wanna take it off my hands.

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

This week’s logo was sent in by reader Timothy Bartolini. Thanks, dude!

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So I think that most of you understood that last week’s logo was not, in fact, a logo, but just an image from the below popular internet meme, which many of you have graciously e-mailed me about over the course of the past few weeks:

And while I appreciate that some of you attempted to supply an actual answer or a humorous answer (I especially loved Storm Smith’s response, Slipknot — a call back to a long-running CUBLOTW joke that culminated in 2009), there was no actual answer, or actual prize, for that matter. The whole thing was a gag, and my attempt to re-open the lines of communication with the members of Lake Bukkake, who haven’t spoken to us since abruptly canceling their Metal Suckfest appearance in November. Alas, it didn’t work — I haven’t heard a peep from the Bukkakers. But I do apologize to anyone who thought they might get a personalized LB song outta the deal. Bummer.

But, hey, guess what? This week, I really do have an actual prize for ya! Five CDs from the MS Mansion Archives. Pretty sweet, right?

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

This week’s logo was sent in by  Kindross. Thanks, holmes!

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Horns up for reader Adam Rosado, who correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Nuclear Dildo Squad. For his troubles, Adam wins a free t-shirt from Killer Brigade Clothing. Wear that shit with pride, Adam! Now you’ll have to beat the ladies off with a stick.

This week, we have a super-duper, extra-awesome prize for you. Lake Bukkake, in an apparent effort to make it up to us for their last-minute cancellation of their appearance at The Metal Suckfest this past November, hit me up to say that they wanted to participate in CUBLOTW, and they wanted to give away a very special prize. I suggested maybe a couple of their rare 7″s, autographed, but they wanted to do MetalSucks readers one better. So the winner will get a personalized, one-of-a-kind Lake Bukkake single. The band will write it for you, about the topic of your choice, record it, and send you a 7″, which will never be duplicated, ever. And in case that wasn’t awesome enough, you should keep in mind that this will be the band’s first officially released material since 1999′s  I Left My Heart in Lake Bukkake. So even if you hate the results, mazel tov, you own a major collector’s item, for possession of which Vince and I would happily fight you.

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address.  ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

This week’s logo was suggested by longtime reader Mykee Shaffer, and it’s way, way hard. Best o’ luck!

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Congrats to reader John Davis (not be confused with that shitty singer from Korn)! He correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Congenital Malformation. For his troubles, John wins five CDs from the MetalSucks Mansion Archives. Yay John!

This week we have another terrific prize to give away: a free t-shirt from Killer Brigade Clothing! You are guaranteed to look stylin’ in one of these metal-friendly designs. So thank Killer Brigade for givin’ this shit out by going to their Facebook page and clicking the “like” button, won’t you?

ll you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, your address, and your t-shirt size. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS AND T-SHIRT SIZE WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

This week’s logo was sent in by Vaughn, and the answer is funny as fuck. Good luck!

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Congrats to reader Greg Marcy! He correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Mario Killed Pikachu. For his troubles, Greg wins five CDs from the MetalSucks Mansion Archives. Go go Greg!

But don’t be too sad if you lost — ’cause this week I’m unloading another five CDs from MS Mansion Archives.

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name next week.

This week’s logo was submitted by the always-helpful Mr. David Foust…

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So I know we usually do CUBLOTW on Tuesdays and today is Wednesday, but guess what? I went through most of yesterday thinking it was Monday, and didn’t realize it was Tuesday until about seven o’clock at night. True story. So I apologize, and we’ll resume doing this contest on Tuesday afternoons from here on out.

ANYWAY, hats off of to reader Billy Nauman, who correctly identified the last unreadable logo of 2011 as belonging to the band Tyrannic Ethical Reconstruction. Billy wins a copy of  a copy of The Barghest O’ Whitby, the new EP from legendary doomsters My Dying Bride. Yyyyyaaaayyyy, Billy!!!

This week I’m unloading another five CDs from MS Mansion Archives. So, yeah, enter this shit.

All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select one winner, and announce his or her name on Tuesday, January 10.

This week’s logo was suggested by reader Cody Long, and it’s… well, it’s completely fucking ridiculous, is what it is. Good luck!

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