So you people didn’t seem to be too excited about the Wolverine video game contest last month. So this month we are going to try something different. This time we are going to do a different contest every week! Now although we are not totally dropping the video game thing, we are going to mix things up a little. This first week will be for the very rare “SLAYER 7-INCH - ‘Psychopathy Red’ - FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE…” we got from the band’s press agent.

Details on the prize:

“Psychopathy Red,” is the first new track from Slayer since 2006’s thrashterpiece “Christ Illusion”. It has been available as a 7-inch vinyl disc since Saturday, April 18th, 2009 (as part of the third annual Record Store Day). Only 5,000 of these limited edition discs were manufactured worldwide, so this is a very rare item!

The blood-red vinyl “Psychopathy Red” 7-inch collectors item is packaged in a special Russian crime scene “evidence envelope,” as the song was inspired by the heinous Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, aka the Rostov Ripper, who confessed to brutally murdering 56 children. The song was recorded by the band - guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, bassist/vocalist Tom Araya, and drummer Dave Lombardo - in a Los Angeles recording studio last October.

Slayer is currently in a Los Angeles studio recording a brand-new album due out this summer. The band will co-headline with Marilyn Manson on the five-week Mayhem Festival set to kick off July 10th in Sacramento, CA. In addition, Kerry King and Tom Araya made a special appearance at the Ephiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards last month, where they presented the “Best Live Band” award to Slipknot. Slayer was presented with its first Golden God Award in 2004 when the band was named “Best Live Band.”

Details on the contest:

How you earn “points” to win:
As always, you earn “sins” (points) for submitting links to stories about hard rock, classic rock, metal, punk, industrial, glam, goth, grunge, grindcore, hardcore, metalcore, etc. It’s not just metal! For example, we think THIS VIDEO is Heavy As Hell along with stuff about Slayer. Voting for stories others submit also gets you “sins”. The third method of getting “sins” is to comment on submissions others have made. Pretty much just be active on the site. The point of the site is to be social, so make sure and “friend” users with the same musical tastes as you have. Feel free to invite friends, too. To get votes on your submissions feel free to recruit on metal forums, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, or wherever else.

Four Hints on how to win:

• If someone was to just vote for every story in the upcoming section that they think deserves a vote, they could have a good chance with that alone. In fact one of the people that almost won recently got almost every single “sin” for voting alone. It’s just that easy, people!
• Voting for other people’s stories can only help your chances of winning.
• If you don’t vote for other people’s stories it can really hurt your chances in this contest.
• Voting down spam (Viagra or anything else non-music related) gets you votes, too! The whole point of the site is that everyone is a moderator.

The first user chart means nothing:
We used to give the prize away to the top users of all time. Now it is all about who is the top user of the week, so if you are currently involved we don’t care. I know that’s harsh, but this site needs active users! So that first chart means nothing really. Eventually we will give the Top Users Of The Month/Week/Day charts their own page, but until then please scroll down to the chart that counts most! We hope this makes new users feel more welcome. We are all about new users!

How can you tell if you are winning?
Go to the Top Ten Users Chart link at the bottom of every page. The first chart is ranking users overall and has nothing to do with this contest. The important chart is the one below that. It’s the one that says “Top 10 Users During the Latest Contest” in big bold letters.

Winner will be announced Sunday May 10th.
Once we receive said winner’s address the prize will be sent out to them. We are very sorry, but only winners from the United States are eligible due to legal reasons. Users worldwide are welcome to be a part of the site, but this contest has to be for U.S. residents only. Of course any user suspected of cheating, gaming the system, or being involved in activity that could harm the site or it’s users may be banned. Being banned from this site will disqualify you from this and any contest.

18 years or older please.
Now there is no way for us to check this at all, but for legal reasons we have to say that you must be 18 years old to win the contest. Why? Because if some kid wins and his parents get all pissy with us, we can say the kid shouldn’t have entered the contest in the first place. So if you are below 18, please be honest and let us know so we can give the prize to someone who is over 18. No ID check though, because we can’t think of a way to pull that off.

We still only want guitar based music!
So why no rap? Rap doesn’t use guitars! We want to celebrate people who actually play instruments. This is what we are passionate about. This site was started to talk about hard rock, classic rock, metal, punk, industrial, glam, goth, grunge, grindcore, hardcore, metalcore, etc. No rap, rapcore, dance music, techno, hip hop, pop, or country. So we strongly discourage those styles. We are not big fans of Emo either, but that’s a whole different subject. Now before thinking there are racial reasons for us not liking rap, please look up the bands God Forbid, Bad Brains, Kings X, & S2C. I’m pretty sure the admins of this site have not only voted up stories of black artists on this site, but submitted them as well. It’s not about color, it’s about the music! Play an instrument or go away!

To be clear, rap and techno do NOT count for this (or any) contest at this site. This has always been the case with this site and it always will be. Users earn points for down voting stories about rap, rapcore, dance music, techno, hip hop, pop, or country as well since it is looked at as spam.

The contest has already started!
When does the contest start? If you are reading this it already has. So CLICK HERE and get started already!

Mark Carras Contest, Heavy As Hell News