A couple of weeks ago I asked you to answer the question “What is the worst possible way you could imagine to meet your end, and why?” for a chance to win some cool shit from The End Records. Well, we got a lot of good entries, but there can be only four winners. Here are the ones that made me laugh the loudest:

• jadedkid: “Hit by a rogue dildo at an IWABO show.”
• AetherJake: “Forced into a baby costume and eaten by Dino.”
• Carly Park: “Getting beaten to death by Vince Neil for not recognizing him in an elevator.”
• Slaughterhouse: “My end wouldn’t mean death. It would simply mean having my hands removed so I couldn’t play my guitar. As well as going deaf so I couldn’t not hear music. At that point, the end has came.”

These four readers all win a prize pack from The End, including the following:

• A copy of These Are They‘s new album, Disposing of Betrayers, signed by Paul Kuhr, vocalist for both These Are They and Novembers Doom.
• A copy of Lordi‘s new album, Babez For Breakfast.
• A copy of original Nightwish vocalist Tarja Turunen‘s new solo album, What Lies Beneath.

Congrats to the winners! If you’re reading this, please check your e-mails and get back to me with your mailing addresses so The End can send you your prizes.

And don’t forget, all of these albums are out now on The End and can be purchased from The Omega Order.

-AR

So The End Records very generously donated five prize packs for last week’s entry into our “Completely Unreadable Band Logo” contest series, and only one reader, Ben Moreau, got the right answer. That means we still have four prize packs to give away! In case you can’t remember what was in ‘em, each prize pack includes the following:

• A copy of These Are They‘s new album, Disposing of Betrayers, signed by Paul Kuhr, vocalist for both These Are They and Novembers Doom.
• A copy of Lordi‘s new album, Babez For Breakfast.
• A copy of original Nightwish vocalist Tarja Turunen‘s new solo album, What Lies Beneath.

All of these albums are out now on The End and can be purchased from The Omega Order — but this is your only chance to win an excellent prize pack with all three, and your only chance to get a signed copy of the These Are They album without tracking Paul Kuhr down personally.

So here’s how we’re gonna unload these bad boys:

• Between now and midnight EST next Tuesday, November 9, answer the following question in the comments section below: “What is the worst possible way you could imagine to meet your end, and why?” Remember that this is MetalSucks, not Home & Garden, so the more entertaining your answer, the better your chances of winning.
• I’ll pick my four favorite answers, and those people will get the prize packs.
• Remember that you need to register for the comments section with a real e-mail address, as all winners will be contacted via e-mail. If you’re a Facebook user or whatever, you need to leave your e-mail address in the comment, ’cause I can’t contact you via a social network.
• All winners must live in the U.S. Sorry.

And that’s it! Good luck. I look forward to reading these.

-AR

After the antics of the first day of the festival, I felt more than ready to get into day two with a healthy dose of music from the beginning. Unfortunately, that was not to be so for me, as at the time I thought I would be continuing on after SXSW into further ridonkulousness, all the way to a family vacation during Spring Break in Mexico….and today was the day that my renewed passport was meant to be FedExed to the flophouse where Vince and I were crashing.

When I had returned to said flophouse the night prior and to my surprise found an open couch in the living room right by the front door (where I was told FedEx homeboy would appear bright and early), I figured it prolly made the most sense to sleep right there on the ground floor as opposed to the stank upstairs sweat lodge where I would be sure to miss any sounds of door knocking.

Sadly, no FedEx arrived in the morning as promised — I was actually awoken by a phone call from Vince around noon wondering where the hell I had ended up last night. After a couple more hours my passport finally arrived, at which point I had to wait at least another hour for a cab to take me down to the action.

HOLY SHIT.

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MetalSucks is proud to present, along with our friends at The End Records, an actual Official South by Southwest 2009 Showcase! Kip and I will be rockin’ with our cocks out in Austin, TX non-stop from Wednesday through Saturday while Axl and a particularly clever MS Mansion Monkey named “Higgins” hold down the fort here in NY. You’re likely to catch us at many of the awesome metal-flavored SXSW events going down this year (including but not limited to Full Metal Texas), but you will absolutely catch us at the kick-ass MetalSucks / The End Records showcase at The Ale House Pub on the eve of Thursday, March 19th. The killer lineup includes Junius, Hull, These are They, Goes Cube, Tub Ring and Early Man — holy fuckin’ shit!!

Set times and location after the jump. See you there.

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When MetalSucks contributor Christopher Roddy phoned Jesse Haff for his scheduled interview, the Daylight Dies drummer was busy working — on a holiday. As much as we love Daylight Dies and continue to spread the word to the masses, Haff pays his bills as the sole web developer for a 60-person media firm in Los Angeles, though he works from Brooklyn where he’s recently relocated from his native North Carolina. Though Haff was busy juggling work with rehearsing daily for the then-upcoming 10-date tour with Soilwork and Darkane, he still found time to give Roddy an incredibly engaging interview, offering insight into the band’s early days with Relapse Records, the band’s current state of affairs, and their writing and recording process for Dismantling Devotion and Lost to the Living. Read the full interview after the jump.

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Well, we asked you to send us your most metal face, and out of all the entries we’ve received, we have selected our winners. So congrats to Rebecca Haimovitz and Mark Lewis (pictured below). Their faces are Metal with a capital “M,” and for their troubles, they win some cool shit from Novembers Doom and The End Records:

• Amid its Hallowed Mirth reissue
• Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers reissue
• The Novella Resevoir (2006 studio release)
• A Novembers Doom t-shirt

And don’t forget, later this year, the Chicago dark metal masters will release their first ever DVD, The Novella Vosselaar: Live in Belgium.

-The Dudes at MetalSucks

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It’s gonna be a big big year for Novembers Doom. First, next Tuesday, May 27, The End Records will reissue their 1995 debut Amid its Hallowed Mirth and 1999′s sophomore effort Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers, with new artwork, remastered audio, and super sweet bonus tracks. Then, later this year, the Chicago dark metal masters will release their first ever DVD, The Novella Vosselaar: Live in Belgium.

To celebrate, MetalSucks is teaming up with The End Records to give away two bad ass prize packages, each consisting of the following:

• Amid its Hallowed Mirth reissue
• Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers reissue
• The Novella Resevoir (2006 studio release)
• A Novembers Doom t-shirt

Pretty sweet, right? Now here’s all you have you do to win:

• Take a picture of yourself making your most metal face (if you don’t know what a “metal face” is, congratulations, you’re disqualified from the contest and probably should not even be reading this website)
• E-mail it to news [at] metalsucks.net by midnight on Sunday, May 25 OR post a link to someplace we can see it (your MySpace page, blog, photo bucket, wherever) in the comments section below
  

And that’s it. It’s meant to be fun, guys, so get goofy with it. Axl and Vince will judge the photos and the two most metal faces will find themselves up to their eyeballs in free Novembers Doom swag.

Good luck, everyone…

-The Dudes at MetalSucks

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The End Records is one of the better labels out there these days – they’ve put out some super sweet albums by bands like Voivod, Sigh, Ulver, Virgin Black, Novembers Doom, Laethora, Giant Squid, Agalloch, Sculptured, Mindless Self Indulgence, and a shitload more that I’m probably forgetting right now.

Well, they’re putting on a show as a record release party for Nadja, the awesome shoegaze duo pictured above, in Brooklyn this Friday, March 7. Tickets are only $6 so you really have no excuse not to be there. Yes, Bloody Panda are on the bill and we’ve made our feelings about that band pretty clear, but I know plenty of intelligent people who like Bloody Panda, so that shouldn’t deter you from going. Plus, there are a bunch of other cool bands on the bill.

Details are below:

THE END RECORDS PRESENTS: NWOBHM (New Wave of Brooklyn Heavy Metal)
Nadja CD Release Party
Featuring Nadja / Bloody Panda / Tombs / Tournament / And This Army
Friday, Mar 07, 2008 @ 8:00 PM EST
at Europa
98 Meserole Ave., (corner of Manhattan Ave.)
Brooklyn, NY 11222
$6.00

-AR