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Conetst: Win a Copy of "Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79–'83"

Posted August 27 by Jeanne F.

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Reading is fundamental. No doubt about it. And if you have any interest in punk and hardcore music, nothing is more fundamental than ye olde zine known as Touch and Go. Back in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979, two fellas by the names of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson started the zine to talk about their favorite bands. (If you missed the Deciblog's extremely excellent interview with Vee and editor Steve Miller, read it now.) As Negative Approach's John Brannon so eloquently put it, "Creem may have taught me how to piss, but Touch and Go taught me how to shit." That's deep, dude. The entire 22-issue run was recently wrapped up into a ridiculously awesome book put out by Bazillion Points Press. Want a copy? Yes, yes you do. Enter for a chance to win after the jump.

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Contest: Win Lose Lose Lose

Posted August 11 by Jeanne F. (4 Comments)

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The Deciblog is prepared to make you a big loser. We teamed up with Brutal Panda Records to give away a copy of Lose/Lose/Lose, a three-way split 12" featuring noise rock powerhouses Kowloon Walled City, Fight Amp, and Ladder Devils. Just when you thought you couldn't be more of a loser, here comes this album to secure your place in the Loser Hall of Fame. The winner will be a total loser. Lose/Lose/Lose, recorded this summer, features two brand-new songs from each band—the first new tracks from New Jersey’s Fight Amp and San Francisco’s Kowloon Walled City since their previous full lengths, both released last year. The split also features the first-ever recorded tracks from Philadelphia’s Ladder Devils, the new band featuring members of The Minor Times. The pressing is strictly limited to 300 copies on clear vinyl and is packaged with a special silk-screened polybag plus a fold-under insert. The record will be available in early September, and you can pre-order a copy at http://brutalpandarecords.com/. Contest continues after the jump.

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Wages of Din Contest Winner

Posted July 21 by Scott Seward (8 Comments)

Scott Seward here, noise fans. As many of you may or may not know, in between the reviews of bad metalcore albums and really bad nü-thrash records in Decibel, I have a tiny little column entitled Wages of Din. Every month it is my great fortune to hip you to some of the finest new noise/drone/avant garde/deep psych/electroacoustic/whatever music that I can find.

This year, I inaugurated the Wages of Din Challenge. I asked all non-musician Decibel readers to make some noise of any kind and send it to me. Many of you were too scared to do this. Without generalizing, I would have to say that most Decibel readers are a cowardly lot. But there was one among you, a giant among men, who stood out from the pack. But mostly he was the only person who took the time to make a half-ass photocopied cover for his CD-R, so he wins. His name: ~~Daniel Luke~~ (CORRECTION) Daniel Lake. Remember it! Because you will never ever hear that name again. (Unless you re-read this after the jump.)

Posted July 8 by sarah.kitteringham (7 Comments)

Back at age 16, nothing was as balls out heavy as Lamb of God’s Ashes of the Wake. It felt bad ass to be rolling through the streets in a shitbox mini-van with mix tapes blasting “For Your Malice” alongside “For the Stabwounds in Our Backs” and “Failure in the Process of Identifying a Dream.” Now, whilst acting as office bitch at Decibel, it seems all staff has some fond recollection of the band, proving that despite the haters they’ve accumulated over the years, they’ve left an undeniable stamp on the American metal lexicon. Thus, it seems fitting that they are now releasing the Hourglass Anthology in no less than five different packages, all of which span the acts 20+ year history. Luckily, Decibel has been gifted six of the three-CD sets to pass on to you: providing you send us a picture of a mix-tape/CD from your youth (or now) with any song by the band. The first six entries will be posted on the blog and will receive the above set. Email log@decibelmagazine.com to enter.

UPDATE: We still have a few of these box-sets left.... get emailing!!!!

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CONTEST: Death Angel Ticket Giveaway

Posted July 7 by sarah.kitteringham

Bay area thrash quintet Death Angel has announced a ticket giveaway for their upcoming tour with Soilwork, Augury, Mutiny Within and Swashbuckle which will see the bands travel across the United States and select Canadian cities. To win tickets, enter here. Tour dates are posted after the jump.

Posted June 2 by sarah.kitteringham (3 Comments)

Phoenix grindsters Landmine Marathon have two badass announcements to make: one, they will hit the road for a month-long US tour, and two, in conjuction with Decibel, they are giving away an autographed Jackson DX10D Dinky Guitar (to have a feel for what this bad boy looks like, click here) and custom TKL Guitar Case. The case features album artwork by Dan Seagrave, the twisted genius behind the band’s album artwork, along with such metal legends as Morbid Angel, Entombed and Suffocation. The package also includes one Couch All Plain Vegan Strap. Email landminemarathon@decibelmagazine.com by June 15, 2010 to enter.

Posted June 1 by Chris D. (1 Comments)

Decibel Magazine, Barren Earth and Peaceville Records would like to congratulate five filthy-mouthed individuals in their quest to curse us out using the words "red" and "river".

Here are the five entries:

1. "Hannah Montana's pus-filled chunky blood red river puts a bigger smile on my face than Decibel." - Chris E., Atlanta, GA

2. "Your stupid, fucking magazine stinks way more than the pungent river of putrid red blood that comes out from your mothers' cunts every month!" - Oswaldo Q., Miramar, FL

3 "I'd rather drink a RED RIVER of purée-d miscarriages and abortions from Hitler's grandmother's cunt than read another issue of Decibel." - Chris F., Peoria, AZ

4. "Decibel can suck my red hot until I pop a river of my special BBQ sauce down their throat. It's a bit salty boys." - Shawn W., Hamilton, ON, Canada

5. "I use Decibel to wipe Barren Earth's red, infected assholes after they shit a river a sperm, filth, and disease." - Anna C., DeKalb, IL

Each winner of the "Red River Cursing" contest will receive a copy of Barren Earth's warmly received Curse of the Red River CD and a t-shirt, courtesy of Peaceville Records.

** Barren Earth's debut album, Curse of the Red River, is out now on Peaceville Records.

Posted May 17 by Chris D. (3 Comments)

Decibel Magazine and Peaceville Records are proud to bring you the "Red River Cursing" contest to celebrate the CD release of Finnish supergroup Barren Earth's debut full-length album Curse of the Red River.

Five (5) lucky winners will receive one (1) Curse of the Red River CD/T-Shirt combo, courtesy of Peaceville Records.

How do you win? Follow the simple instructions below.

QUESTION: What is the most vulgar thing you can say about Decibel using the words "red" or "river" in a sentence?

EXAMPLE: Decibel sucks my fucking long "red" "river".

Email your vulgar sentence to: deciblog@gmail.com

Please provide your full name, address and phone number in your email.

CONTEST RULES:
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

FULFILLMENT OF CONTEST PRIZES NOT BY DECIBEL MAGAZINE OR RED FLAG MEDIA.

VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

CONTEST END DATE: May 25th, 2010 (5/25/2010).

** Barren Earth's Curse of the Red River is out now on Peaceville Records. Click here to order.

Posted May 12 by sarah.kitteringham

Members of Virginia tech death act Arsis are damn good at their instruments, and want to award one of you who is as well. To do so, the band recently launched a guitar contest with Ulitmate-Guitar.com which asks guitar whizzes to send Youtube links of themselves playing guitar alongside the first two minutes of “A March For the Sick,” from 2009’s Starve for the Devil. The winner will receive a package of merch, including…

-An autographed copy of aforementioned disc
-An Arsis T-shirt
-An Arsis hooded sweatshirt
-A autographed Arsis poster

To assist wannabe winners, there is a video of Arsis guitarist Nick Cordle playing the track at http://www.ultimate-guitar.tv/misc/arsis_the_march_for_the_sick_contest.html. The Arsis Youtube channel also features several lessons from band mastermind James Malone. Submissions for the competition should be sent to mail@nculearblastusa.com by June 7th, and will be judged by Cordle himself.

Shred away!

Posted May 6 by sarah.kitteringham (1 Comments)

If you missed out on Municipal Waste’s autographed skate deck, no worries, Priestess has a more sizable (a.k.a more free stuff) offer available. The Montreal-based sludgey groove rock band recently debuted their new track “Trapped in Space & Time” (you may listen to it here) and to celebrate are giving away four prize packs in the “Trapped in Skate & Time” contest. The prize packs include…

     - 1 Flip P2 Skate Deck
     - 2 pairs of Converse skateboarding shoes
     - 1 Tum Yeto gift bag
     - 1 Thrasher gift bag
     - 1 Priestess prize pack (including an autographed Prior to the Fire CD or LP, T-shirt and poster)

Posted April 28 by Jeanne F. (9 Comments)

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Spring is in the air, children, and that means only one thing: It’s time to injure yourself in the great outdoors. And that means only one thing: Skateboarding season is upon us. Die-hard sk8r boys and girls will claim they skate year-round, in all sorts of harsh weather conditions. Yeah, well, some of us are more delicate. (And anyone on the west coast can just keep their perennially sunny trap shut.)

ANYWAY, we’ve teamed up with another set of die-hards, the mighty Municipal Waste, to give away one of their brand spakin’ new skate decks. The limited first edition of these decks features an engraved MW logo and edition number. But that’s not all! We’re also giving away an autographed copy of their latest album, Massive Aggressive—voted one of Decibel’s Top 40 albums of 2009. Click through for details. (And no, that good-lookin' creature in the picture is not part of the contest. And no, that's not me.)

Posted March 5 by Jeanne F. (1 Comments)

***CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED****

The Blackened Music Series presents Harvey Milk, Coalesce, and The Atlas Moth this Monday, March 8, 2010 at 8:00 pm at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City. And we've got a pair of tickets with your name on them. Wanna go? Wanna dunk yer cookies in Harvey Milk's vat of treacherous sludge? Yes, yes you do. Click through and we'll show you how.

Posted March 2 by Jeanne F. (4 Comments)

***CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED***

All this freakin’ snow has us feeling extra generous, so we’re joining forces with the folks over at Brutal Panda Records for a contest. Enter to win a limited edition 7” of Panic Program the upcoming EP from Chicago wrecking crew Millions. It’ll help melt the frost off your hiney. Details after the jump.

Posted February 12 by Chris D. (1 Comments)

Decibel Magazine and Handshake Inc. would like to congratulate Jason C from Sacramento, California on winning the "Bring Me The Fuckin' Robes" contest!

Jason C will be getting one of the actual robe (see photo below) props from the Disgorge, Mexico: The Movie movie. The stud from sunny California will also get a DVD copy of Disgorge, Mexico: The Movie.

All prizes courtesy of Handshake Inc.

Posted February 10 by Chris D. (4 Comments)

Decibel Magazine and The Syndicate shook pinky fingers, had a few bro hugs and a few more Top Gun High Fives to award one (1) lucky winner a pair of tickets to the inimitiable, totally awesome Scion Rock Fest in Columbus, Ohio. Details after the jump.

Posted February 3 by Chris D.

Decibel Magazine and Handshake Inc. are proud to bring you the "Bring Me The Fuckin' Robes" contest to celebrate the DVD and digital download release of Disgorge, Mexico: The Movie.

One (1) lucky winner will receive an actual costume from the David Hall-directed movie and a copy of the DVD Disgorge, Mexico: The Movie.

Handshake Inc. is providing one of the robes (see image below) from the film. The robes were designed by Nekro who has previously worked with Arch Enemy's Angela Gossow and Sigh's Mikannibal.

Posted January 29 by Chris D. (1 Comments)

Decibel Magazine, Earache Records and At The Gates would like to congratulate:

1. Michael K. of Staten Island, NY

As the winner of the "The Flames Of The End" VIP Screening Contest.

Posted January 22 by Chris D. (1 Comments)

CONTEST CLOSED | CONTEST CLOSED | CONTEST CLOSED - 01/28/2010

Decibel Magazine, Earache Records and At The Gates are teaming up to celebrate the release of the new At The Gates 3-DVD set The Flames of the End. So, what's up? Well, how about...

One (1) lucky winner with a once-in-a-lifetime chance to screen new At The Gates DVD The Flames of the End in New York City on February 5th, 2010 (02/05/2010) with a bunch of VIPs (us and a few other unmentioned souls) and meet At The Gates/The Haunted guitarist Anders Björler.

One (1) lucky winner will also receive a prize package from Earache Records.

What do you have to do to win?

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Contest Alert: No Label Needed

Posted January 21 by Jeanne F. (5 Comments)

Woody Allen famously said “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Consider the No Label Contest and Series presented by Scion in collaboration with MetalInsider.net the “showing up” part. The contest will take one band on the express route to success, leaving the bed-wetters and thumb-suckers—those would be the labels—far behind. You will be taken under the wings of some rather established metal personnel (Shadows Fall, Dillinger Escape Plan, etc.) and guided through the treacherous bowels of “the biz.” It’s basically the furthest thing from d.i.y. we can imagine.

All unsigned bands can submit their demos through February 8. The sticky sweet details are after the jump.

Posted December 15 by Chris D. (3 Comments)

Venerable French label Listenable Records -- the guys responsible for 'discovering', uh, My Dying Bride, Immortal, Soilwork, Gojira, Aborted, etc. -- and Decibel Magazine -- the guys responsible for printing the best damned metal magazine ever and upside down cross acronymn shirts (hurry! order now!) -- are teaming up to offer dB-loving metalheads, meatheads and hetsheads some killer music swag. For FREE! Well, you have to do some work, but we aren't asking you to clean out the fryer or wash down the cold storage. We have interns for those jobs. What do you have to do? Answer a simple question correctly and email us. That's it? Absolutely.

CONTEST QUESTION:
What was Listenable Records' first release?

Email your answer to: listenable@decibelmagazine.com

Three lucky winners (chosen by Decibot) will get their choice of one (1) of these bad-ass prize packages.

PRIZES:
1. THE LEGION "A Bliss to Suffer" CD/TS

2. HACRIDE "Lazarus" CD/TS pack

3. GOJIRA "Terra Incognita" CD/TS pack

SIZES AVAILABLE:
M / L / XL (sorry, skinny kids and super fatties)

The Listenable Records "Libérer des Choses!" winners will be announced on 1/4/2010.

Void where prohibited. Contest valid to residents of Earth and its related territories.

Posted December 14 by Chris D. (3 Comments)

Decibel Magazine and Peaceville Records would like to congratulate George Torbycz of Minnesota for winning the Katatonia "Darkest Day" Grand Prize.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER:

George Torbycz, NJ
1. One (1) Katatonia hoodie
2. One (1) Katatonia t-shirt
3. One (1) Katatonia Night is the New Day CD
4. One (1) Katatonia poster
5. Four (4) Katatonia back catalog CDs (randomly chosen)

RUNNERS-UP WINNERS:

Michael Dempsey, NJ
Will receive one (1) Katatonia Night is the New Day CD.

Brian Molina, MN
Will receive one (1) Katatonia Night is the New Day CD.

** Katatonia’s Night is the New Day is out now on Peaceville Records.

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Katatonia “Darkest Day” contest!

Posted November 30 by Chris D. (10 Comments)

CONTEST CLOSED!!! ENTRIES AFTER 12/13/2009 ARE INVALID!!!

Decibel Magazine and Katatonia are teaming up to provide one lucky Deci-dude or Deci-dudette with post-Black Friday, pre- Hanukkah/Christmas/Kwanzaa with a sweet prize package. Actually, one lucky Deci-dude or Deci-dudette will get the “Darkest Day Package” and two other runners-up will receive one (1) copy of the new Katatonia CD Night is the New Day. We gave it a 9/10, so you know you it’s essential.

So, here’s the “Darkest Day Package” prize package:

1. One (1) Katatonia hoodie
2. One (1) Katatonia t-shirt
3. One (1) Katatonia Night is the New Day CD
4. One (1) Katatonia poster
5. Four (4) Katatonia back catalog CDs (randomly chosen)

Two runners-up will receive one (1) Katatonia Night is the New Day CD.

Q: Who sang guest vocals on the new song 'Departer' and what band from the 90's was he in?

Winners chosen at random by the Decibot.

The “Darkest Day Package” winner will be announced on 12/14/2009. The runners-up winners will be announced on 12/14/2009.

Void where prohibited. Contest valid to residents of North America.

** Katatonia’s Night is the New Day is out now on Peaceville Records.

CONTEST CLOSED!!! ENTRIES AFTER 12/13/2009 ARE INVALID!!!

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D.R.I. Contest from Beer City Records!

Posted August 6 by albert (7 Comments)

For those of you who don’t already know, the Hall of Fame in the current issue of Decibel is the crossover classic Dealing with It from D.R.I. To celebrate this long overdue induction, the fine folks at Beer City Records have sent us four awesome Dealing with It prize packs (well, technically five, but I’m keeping one for myself, so piss off) to give away to a few of our lucky readers. Prize packs include the following:

- CD copy of Dealing with It
- D.R.I. painter’s cap
- D.R.I. Dealing with It t-shirt

For your shot at winning, just answer the following question:

What was the name of D.R.I.’s equally awesome follow-up to Dealing with It?

Email your answer with the subject line "D.R.I. contest" to mark.evans@decibelmagazine.com and I’m sure he’ll “randomly” select a winner Friday, August 14th.

Posted July 28 by albert (2 Comments)

Since I’m probably not actually gonna get you on the fucking guest for this Friday’s Precious Metal book release show at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple featuring Repulsion performing their Decibel Hall of Fame-inducted Horrified in its entirety, plus Pig Destroyer and Brutal Truth, now is your chance to win a pair of FREE tickets to event by simply answering the following question:

Posted July 13 by albert (3 Comments)

Our friends from the Chariot and Solid State Records want you to have this First Act guitar, so, yeah, just consider us enablers. To enter, just send an email to thechariot@decibelmagazine.com with the subject line “The Chariot Guitar” and if it’s doesn’t immediately get eaten by our spam filter, you may have a shot at winning.
The Chariot's new album, Wars and Rumors of Wars, is available now via Solid State.

Posted May 14 by Albert (5 Comments)

That’s right; Decibel and Dean Guitars have teamed up to giveaway a Demonator 4 bass guitar autographed by Morbid Angel bassist/vocalist David Vincent! One lucky winner will receive a phone call from Mr Evil D, who will personally deliver the good news. It’s up to you if you wanna use that phone time to ask him when the hell new Morbid Angel will actually be finished. Anyway, just follow the simple rules below:

Posted March 30 by Chris D. (4 Comments)

Come on down, Anthony Abboreno! You're the winner of the Carcass Discography. Congrats, sir!

How we selected Mr. Abboreno was based the average rainfall of Flint, Michigan divided by the amount of Superfund dollars Michigan received to store all kinds of toxic shit and then we subtracted that value from the amount Carcass earned from merch on the Exhume to Consume II tour. With that value in hand, we matched Mr. Abboreno's astrological birth sign number and huzzah he was declared the winner! Pretty complex stuff, really.

Actually, we assembled the list of entries and used a randomizer to pick a name. Much less complicated and subjective. But still involves math.

HUGE thanks to Earache Records for providing the sickly sweet swag! We couldn't have been awesome without you!

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Carcass Re-issue Contest

Posted March 9 by Chris D. (1 Comments)

We don't mess around at Decibel. Therefore, the 'trickle down' effect also applies to the Deciblog. We don't mess around either. Or we like to think we don't. Some days are longer than others, but you get the picture. Anyway, when was the last time the Deciblog did something for you? We can’t scratch your back, pay your rent or rub your balls (various ‘in/out-call’ services already do that), but we can use our impressive pull elsewhere. My fellow consumers of the extreme, the Deciblog is very proud to announce "Win the Carcass discography" contest.

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This Contest Kills Fascists

Posted February 12 by frank (3 Comments)

Here's a contest for all ya'll capitalist-killing, Bush-bashing grind-freaks.

You remember Relapse Record's This Comp Kills Fascists, right? Of course! It was # 31 on Decibel's top releases of 08' list. Nick Green explained about how this thing actually kills people: "With a global financial crisis in full swing, This Comp Kills Fascists Vol. 1 makes more economic sense than any record on the Decibel year-end list. Scott Hull's tribute to the legendary Cry Now, Cry Later comp series features 51 songs from 14 different bands. This includes the first new music from grind OGs Brutal Truth and Agents of Satan in a decade, final shocks from ASRA (R.I.P.) and Insect Warfare (R.I.P.) and more crazy fucking noise than you can possibly handle."
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Contest: Win Babies Autographed by Made Out of Babies!

Posted November 28 by nick (5 Comments)

We're still nursing hangovers from the Decibel 50th issue party at Johnny Brenda's last weekend. We can't even remember when Julie Christmas and Cooper of Made Out of Babies and their close pal Laura Pleasants of Kylesa had time to defile these plastic babies, but we're in the business of passing totally bizarre shit on to you, gentle readers. You want these one-of-a-kind autographed kewpie dolls? You gotta work for 'em! Record yourself doing your best Julie Christmas scream and send evidence to deciblog@yahoo.com. Entries are due by December 15, 2008. Bonus points will be awarded for length, quality and the inclusion of words. Go ahead: Terrify us!

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