Ok, so I want to see how many of you Sinners I can get to start using Twitter to get people to check out your submissions here on HeavyAsHell. So here is the deal, below I have a list of cd’s from our great sponsors. There is some pretty cool stuff in there, right? I know you want one of them. So I will be watching for people using the hash tag #heavyashell all day Tuesday March 9th. It is first come first serve. So the first ones to promote their new (as in that day) submission through Twitter with the hash tag #heavyashell get the cd’s. Cool?
So to be clear, your Twitter message needs two things. A link to your submission on this site and the hash tag #heavyashell.
I also want to make it clear that this contest is not part of the main contest. So just because you already won that contest, does not mean you can’t win this contest. You can win both contests. However, just like with the main contest, you can only win this one once.
If that doesn’t make sense just know that this contest is open to former winners too. And that with each contest on this site, you can only win once.
As with all our contests, you must be at least 18 years of age. You must also be a legal resident of the United States Of America. Both of these are for legal reasons. We encourage everyone to participate in the site. Even if they can’t be part of the contests.
So you ready for the list?
Through The Eyes Of The Dead - Malice (2 copies)
Beneath The Massacre - Dystopia (2 copies)
Carving Desert Canyons - Scale The Summit (2 copies)
All That Remains - Overcome (has no cover)
All That Remains - Overcome
Testament - Demonic Reissue (2 copies)
Avantasia - Lost In Space
Immolation - Majesty And Decay
Annotations Of An Autopsy - II: The Reign of Darkness
Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was
Mnemic - Sons Of The System
Arsis - Starve For The Devil
Scar Symmetry - Dark Matter Dimensions
Ex-Deo - Romulus
Epica - Desiggn Your Universe
Threat Signal - Vigilance
Psychostick - Sandwich (10 copies)
Evacuate Chicago - Veracity (10 copies)
most importantly make sure and follow both the official Heavy As Hell Twitter account and my personal account. I tend to update my own account more often.
Starting at 9 am pacific (until 7 pm pacific) I will be picking one person an hour to win a
copy of the latest release from the band Mongrel. We will call this
“Mongrel Monday”.
The rules are simple. You use Twitter to encourage your
friends and fans to vote for your stories/submissions on HeavyAsHell.com. Send out
the url with the hash tag #HeavyAsHell so I can track everyone. I will pick one
person an hour and send the announcement of the winner out through the official HAH Twitter
account (not my personal one) to be sent the Mongrel cd Revenge.
As with most contests, we can only accept people who live in the United States. Sorry, but it’s a legal thing.
Never heard Mongrel before? Go to http://www.myspace.com/mongrel and
take a listen! Also make sure to thank the band for being a sponsor of this contest. They are the only unsigned band (or any band for that matter) with enough balls to do so!
This will be considered a separate “mini contest”. Which means, that winning a copy of this cd DOES NOT bar you from winning anything from the main contest at http://www.heavyashell.com/contest.
Don’t forget to folow both the official HAH twitter account at http://twitter.com/HeavyAsHell and my personal account at http://twitter.com/MarkCarras. I tend to respond from the personal one quicker. Plus I give updates more often on that one.
Who really gives a crap about the Academy awards other than people who work on movies, gay guys, women with no lives, and just plain sheep with their heads shoved so far up their backsides that they couldn’t see the light of day if their lives depended on it? Seriously, what people should have really cared about was who would win the first week of the Heavy As Hell Ten Grand Giveaway.
Well, first prize went to the fan favorite. Many people were rooting for this guy to win, so I’m glad he did. threaper13 you now get to take $1,000 of my money. So download the PDF and send it to me as soon as you can. For legal reasons I can’t send the money until we have that legal form. Second place goes to drvondoom. Since the legal limit for being forced to use that annoying form is $600 and you won $500, all I need is your real name and the street address I need to send it to. No P.O. Boxes since someone will have to sign for the package. With amounts this large we need to be able to track that it was received by the correct person. Fourth prize goes to a long time supporter of the site Mortalwind. Same rules as 2nd prize go for your $250 prize.
Can I ask a favor?
There are some that question if this contest is legit. So can I ask a huge favor of the winners? Can you pose with your prizes when you get them and send me the photo as soon as possible? We would love to feature you winners if you’re cool with it. You don’t have to, but it would really help us out.
Oh yes, the end of another contest is here. Although I loved being able to have 3 first prize winners this time, this comes with some lame news as well. It looks as though one person might have put some time into trying to win without reading the rules. Nothing sucks more than having to disqualify a user, but if I don’t it would leave another user shafted. So please know that we here at HAH debated and discussed this endlessly. We did not make this discussion lightly and we know that there could be repercussions for us. So here is the deal…
The winners are “noneck”, “XTRMDave”, & “mcphranklee”. User “Metalgasm” is a user we wish could be a winner, but he is from Canada. Now of course we have no problem with our metal brothers and sisters way up north. They gave us Devin Townsend! Our rules however clearly state that “We are very sorry, but only winners from the United States are eligible due to legal reasons.” Now without going into some big debate on this, you have to understand that we are a very tiny company. We don’t have the funds to pay lawyers to find out what we can do over international borders and what we can’t. So we have to play it safe. However, I have an offer that I hope will make Metalgasm feel he is still welcome here at HAH. Get me your address and I will send you a small stack of cd’s to add to your collection. This is out of my own personal stash. Now this is not something I can do all the time, but I have a ton of cd’s and might feel presured into doing it whenever a user puts in the effort Metalgasm has. Cool? I hope so. The last thing I want is for our international users to feel unwelcome. We love you all. We just can’t afford to include you in any official contests. As you can probably tell, we feel pretty bad about that.
So the three winners mentioned above will be sent an email asking them to get us their snail mail address. As soon as we have that the packages will be sent out. A new contest will be launched soon as well. As always, if you have any idea on what prizes we should giveaway post them in the comments. The only rules for contests is that they be something very recently released, something a wide range of people will want, and something within our $100 per month prize budget. That’s a maximum! We have found that it doesn’t matter how much we spend on the prize. It only matters if we can figure out what you users want the most. So that is what we will try to do. Thanks everyone. Vote up the good stuff with the passion only Hard Rock, metal, and punk fans can!
Win A Jane’s Addiction A Cabinet Of Curiosities Sampler!
This contest is over. Winners will be announced within 24 hours and a new contest shortly after that. Stay tuned!
This week we are going to try something different. This time we are going to give away 3 first prizes! We have three sampler cd’s from the new Jane’s Addiction box set A Cabinet Of Curiosities. One of them could be yours!
Details on the prize:
A Cabinet of Curiosities is a compilation box set by alternative rock band Jane’s Addiction, released on April 21, 2009 on Rhino Records. The collection includes three discs of demos, rehearsals, remixes, covers, and live recordings from the groups initial lifespan of 1986–1991, and one DVD featuring the movie Soul Kiss, the band’s music videos, and concert footage.
This very rare sampler of Jane’s Addiction’s first ever boxed set contains rare demos of “Mountain Song” and “Stop!,” an amped up remix of “Been Caught Stealing,” a rambling live clip of “LA Woman” that could raise Jim from the dead and more.
Sampler includes:
Mountain Song (Radio Tokyo Demo)
Up The Beach (Demo)
Stop! (Demo)
No One’s Leaving (Demo)
Been Caught Stealing (12” Remix)
Ripple
L.A. Medley (Live)
1% (Live)
Ain’t No Right (Live)
Ocean Size (Live)
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 Jane’s Addiction. 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 unless 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 Monday May 25th.
Once we receive the address of the 3 winners the prizes 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 it was against the rules for the kid to 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!
Yes we have more contests to be launched. My hope is to have the next one up and running by Tuesday morning. First off I need to announce that Dave (aka XTRMDave) has won yet again. I have a strong feeling that anyone could have beat him by voting alone. You people didn’t even seem to try. Well, my goal now is to find something our users care enough about that you all fight like Hell to get it.
Dave, I still need you to tell me what game system you want that Wolverine game on. It was last months contest and we need to get that for you as soon as possible. Maybe along with the Slayer 7 inch. Let us know and it is yours good sir! Thanks for the support.
Now Let me end this with one small request. I am noticing several independent bloggers starting to use this site to promote themselves. I think that’s awesome and I totally encourage that sort of thing. However, keep in mind that this is all about the social aspect. So please take a look at the submissions of others and vote them up if you think they deserve it. I’m just not getting enough vote activity and that tells me people are not getting social enough around here. I want you independent bloggers to get some valuable networking out of this site as well. Thanks.
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!
