This is the kind of competition we love. We get offered a pair of tickets to give away to see KISS at any date on the tour and we get to ‘research’ KISS song titles to make another stupid answer options for a quality competition. WIN. WIN. Go and win.

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When Municipal Waste aren’t thrashing till they puke, fall over, or fall over and puke, they like to eat pizza. Except it seems they’re the kind of indecisive son-of-a-guns who hold up everyone else’s order while they umm and ahh over the menu, unable to decide if they want a Meat Feast or a Hawaiian.

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THIS IS CANCELLED NOW. Annoying.
Gallows are headlining Fly53’s 15th birthday party in London this Friday, 18 December 2009. It’s their penultimate gig of the year and after having to cancel a couple of shows recently due to a poorly guitarist, they’ll be raring to go. It’s sold out, though. OH NO… but wait, we’ve got [...]

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Those of you with a Gallic tongue might have noted that the title means, “French for one night,” but fear not, San Francisco’s biggest thrashers haven’t gone and bought four berets, four strings of garlic and four navy/white stripey shirts – they’re just releasing a live DVD and you can win one right here. AMAZING.

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We opened up a big old envelope this morning and out popped 12 inches of Rammstein. No, no there are no cock-based, ‘Pussy’ jokes coming all over your face. Just vinyl copies of the single (both impressive 7″ and bowel-loosening 12″) and a signed pair of Christoph “Doom” Schneider’s drumsticks. He’s the drummer in Rammstein, [...]

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While Gallows aren’t tearing up stages all over the world, they’re doing other stuff. Like designing tshirts. Well, guitarist, Laurent has been doing that in conjunction with Topman CTRL and we’ve got one of his tshirts to give away. Ooh, fancy.

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We’re big fans of Night Is The New Day, the new album from those Swedish doom merchants Katatonia - we did give it 5 out of 6 in our review earlier this week, after all. So we’re plenty pleased that the band has given us a couple of signed copies of the album to give away to [...]

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Hard Rock Hell is back for a third outing in Pontins, Prestatyn Sands in Wales on 04-06 December and because it’s sold out, we’ve got five pairs of tickets to give away. FIVE PAIRS! FIVE! You could be watching heavy metal in a Pontins for FREE. Not bad.

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With Hellfire Festival II only a matter of weeks away, we thought it was about time to offer up a nice prize so we got a pair of weekend tickets to the festival. Then we arranged a Meet & Greet with heavy metal legends, Saxon. Then we got a bunch of swag from Jägermeister to [...]

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1. The queue snaked all the way round the Islington Academy onto Upper Street even while I was eating half a chicken in Nando’s. Medium with loads of garlic sauce, FYI.

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