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Summer Slaughter ticket give away

Summer Slaughter at Rams Head Live

The annual Summer Slaughter tour is one of the biggest heavy metal summer tours in the US every year and 2015 will be no different! Arch Enemy is headlining the tour this year and we’re excited to be giving away a pair of tickets to the one of you lucky DCHM readers when the Summer Slaughter tour comes to Rams Head Live in Baltimore on Thursday, August 13th. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post naming which band you’re most excited to see on this year’s Summer Slaughter tour! At 5pm EST this Friday, August 7th, a winner will be chosen at random (using Random.org) from all valid entries to win the pair of tickets. Be sure to enter using a valid email you check regularly so I can contact you if you win. Don’t worry, I won’t add you to any spam lists or sell your info or anything sleazy like that. If I haven’t heard back from the winner within 24 hours another winner will be chosen at random. If you can’t wait to see if you win or the contest is already over when you read this, then you can get tickets from Ticket Fly for $12 here.

Arch Enemy returns to Baltimore when Summer Slaughter comes to town and this will be the first time they play our area with Jeff Loomis playing guitar opposite Mike Amott! Born Of Osiris is a deathcore band from the Chicago area and they’ve just released a new song from their upcoming album, maybe they’ll play more from it live as well. Veil Of Maya is also a deathcore band from Chicago, though their sound has a Periphery-esque djent sound as well. The Acacia Strain from Massachusetts will be bringing their brand of metalcore to the stage on this tour as well. California based vegetarian death metal band Cattle Decapitation has a new album coming out and they’ll surely be playing some of that brutal new material for you at this show. And definitely get there early enough to see Beyond Creation from Montreal. The tech death band has one of the most incredible bass players in metal right now! So check out these videos by each band on the Summer Slaughter tour below and leave a comment telling me which band you most want to see when the tour comes to Baltimore next week!

Arch Enemy – War Eternal

Born Of Osiris – Throw Me In The Jungle

Veil Of Maya – Mikasa

The Acacia Strain – Cauterizer

Cattle Decapitation – Manufactured Extinct

Beyond Creation – Omnipresent Perception

August 4, 2015
Categories: Contests, Rams Head Live . Tags: Arch Enemy, Beyond Creation, Born Of Osiris, Cattle Decapitation, Summer Slaughter, The Acacia Strain, Veil Of Maya . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 9 Comments

Power Trip ticket give away

Power Trip at Rock & Roll Hotel

When Power Trip and Foreseen play at the Rock & Roll Hotel on Wednesday, July 29th of 2015 you’ll get to see two of the hottest bands in thrash metal right now! We’re so pumped for this show that we’re going to give away a pair of tickets to it to one of you lucky DCHM readers! To enter just leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite thrash metal song is by any thrash metal band. You can go old school, newer or totally obscure, just as long as it is thrash! At 5pm EST this Friday, July 24th, a winner will be chosen at random (using Random.org) from all valid entries to win the pair of tickets. Be sure to enter using a valid email you check regularly so I can contact you if you win. Don’t worry, I won’t add you to any spam lists or sell your info or anything sleazy like that. If I haven’t heard back from the winner within 24 hours another winner will be chosen at random. If you can’t wait to see if you win or the contest is already over when you read this, then you can get tickets from Ticket Fly for $12 here.

Power Trip is a Dallas, Texas based crossover thrash band known for their high energy shows! Their 2013 album Manifest Decimation was a hit with fans and critics and now they’ll be headlining the Rock & Roll Hotel for what is sure to be a sweaty night of moshing and headbanging! Foreseen is a thrash band from Finland that came out of nowhere when they released their debut album, Helsinki Savagery late in 2014, one of the year’s best metal releases. Those two bands playing this show should be enough to get you out for this but there will also be sets by local crossover thrash band Red Death and local harDCore band Protestor. Now check out these sick tunes below while you decide tell me in the comments what your favorite thrash metal song is!

Power Trip – Crossbreaker

Foreseen – Bonded By United Blood

Red Death – Permanent Exile

Protestor – Self-Conflicted

July 20, 2015
Categories: Contests, Rock And Roll Hotel, Thrash Metal . Tags: Contest, Foreseen, Power Trip, Protestor, Red Death, Rock & Roll Hotel . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 17 Comments

Goatwhore ticket give away

Goatwhore at Rock & Roll Hotel

The New Orleans based band Goatwhore is coming to the Rock & Roll Hotel on Thursday, July 9th of 2015 along with Ringworm, Black Breath and Theories. Since you don’t want to miss a line up like that we’re going to give away a free pair of tickets to this show to one of you lucky DCHM readers! To enter just leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite Goatwhore song is. If you need some help you can check out their discography here At 5pm EST this Friday, July 3rd, a winner will be chosen at random (using Random.org) from all valid entries to win the pair of tickets. Be sure to enter using a valid email you check regularly so I can contact you if you win. Don’t worry, I won’t add you to any spam lists or sell your info or anything sleazy like that. If I haven’t heard back from the winner within 24 hours another winner will be chosen at random. If you can’t wait to see if you win or the contest is already over when you read this, then you can get tickets from Ticket Fly for $15 here.

Goatwhore has become one of the most popular extreme metal bands from the New Orleans area so it makes sense they’re headlining this tour. There’s some other great bands to see on the tour as well of course, including Ringworm a thrash/hardcore band from Cleveland, Ohio, that has been around since the early 90s. And you definitely don’t want to miss Black Breath, who despite being from Seattle have a sound that fits right with bands like Nihilist, Unleashed, Grave and Dismember. The show’s opener is also from Seattle, but Theories is a brutal death/grind band that will get the crowd pumped up early at this one. Now let me know what your favorite Goatwhore song is in the comments below (or if you’re more into one of the opener bands you can pick one of their songs too of course!) and be sure to check out these songs by the bands playing the show.

Goatwhore – Apocalyptic Havoc

Ringworm – Hammer Of The Witch

Black Breath – Home Of The Grave

Theories – Cycle Of Decay

June 29, 2015
Categories: Contests, Rock And Roll Hotel . Tags: Black Breath, Goatwhore, Ringworm, Rock & Roll Hotel, Theories . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 21 Comments

Faith No More ticket give away

Faith No More at Merriweather Post Pavilion

Faith No More is back together and they’re doing a short run of shows, including a performance at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Sunday, August 2nd! We’re so excited here at DCHM to see Mike Patton and the gang back together that we’re giving away a free pair of seated tickets (as in, not lawn) to this show to one of our lucky readers. To enter just leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite metal come back album is. At 5pm EST this Friday, June 26th, a winner will be chosen at random (using Random.org) from all valid entries to win the tickets. Be sure to enter using a valid email you check regularly so I can contact you if you win. Don’t worry, I won’t add you to any spam lists or sell your info or anything sleazy like that. If I haven’t heard back from the winner within 24 hours another winner will be chosen at random. If you can’t wait to see if you win or the contest is already over when you read this, then you can get tickets from Ticket Fly for $40 (lawn) or $55 (seats and pit) here.

In May Faith No More released Sol Invictus, the band’s first album since 1997. They have put together a small US tour to support this album and we’re lucky enough to get one of these dates in our area, so you don’t want to miss this rare chance to see Faith No More live! Of course they’ll be playing plenty of their older classics as well. The opening act on this tour is Refused, a Swedish hardcore punk band that has reunited to play once more after breaking up in the late 90s. Now check out these songs by the bands playing below and let me know what you favorite metal come back album is in the comments!

Faith No More – Superhero

Faith No More – Epic

Refused – Elektra

June 22, 2015
Categories: Contests, Merriweather Post Pavilion . Tags: Faith No More, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Refused . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 36 Comments

Free Tickets to Mad Max: Fury Road advance screening

Well this isn’t directly heavy metal related but when I heard about the new Max Max movie, officially titled Mad Max: Fury Road, was coming out I have to admit that I was excited since I have always liked the Mad Max movies. So when I was given the chance to give away 30 pairs of tickets (60 tickets total) to an advance screening at 7:30pm on Wednesday, May 6th (that’s THIS Wednesday!) in Silver Spring I couldn’t turn that down! The Mad Max: Fury Road advance screening will take place at the Regal Majestic in Silver Spring (map). To claim your free pair of tickets just click on the link here and either create a free account or just log in using your Facebook, Twitter or Google+ user name. The tickets are first come first served and once they are all claimed they’ll be gone. Note that the movie isn’t officially released until May 15th so this is an exclusive advance viewing just for readers of DCHM!

Mad Max: Fury Road is the first Mad Max film to be released in 30 years by the post-apocalyptic franchise’s director George Miller. This is the first film in the series where “Mad” Max Rockatansky will be played by Tom Hardy, the actor that played Bane in Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, and it also co-stars Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa. For more info you can check out the trailer embedded below or read about it on IMDB (here) or Wikipedia (here).

May 4, 2015
Categories: Contests, Shameless Promotion . Tags: Charlize Theron, George Miller, Mad Max, Mad Max; Fury Road, Tom Hardy . Author: Metal Chris . Comments: 1 Comment

Testament and Exodus ticket give away

Testament and Exodus at the Fillmore Silver Spring

Thrash metal fans cannot miss the Dark Roots Of Thrash II Tour when it brings both Testament and Exodus to the Fillmore Silver Spring on Tuesday, April 28th of 2015! We’re so psyched that we want to get as many people out to this show as possible so this week we’re giving away a free pair of tickets to one of you lucky DCHM readers. To enter just leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite thrash metal band is. You can go old school Bay Area like Testament and Exodus themselves, or Big Four like Anthrax and Slayer, or maybe new school like Municipal Waste and Warbringer or even go with a crossover band for you DRI and Power Trip fans! At 5pm EST this Friday, April 24th, a winner will be chosen at random (using Random.org) from all valid entries to win the tickets. Be sure to enter using a valid email you check regularly so I can contact you if you win. Don’t worry, I won’t add you to any spam lists or sell your info or anything sleazy like that. If I haven’t heard back from the winner within 24 hours another winner will be chosen at random. If you can’t wait to see if you win or the contest is already over when you read this, then you can get tickets from Live Nation for $35.50 here.

On this tour Testament will be playing a set mostly consisting of material from their first three albums, The Legacy, The New Order and Practice What You Preach, so fans of the band’s classic older material are in for a hell of a show. And you may have heard that Exodus has brought back Steve Souza to front the band so you can expect to hear songs from their new album with him, Blood In Blood Out, as well as classic older material from when he was with the band in the 80s and 90s. The opening act for this show is going to be Shattered Sun, a Texas based band that is having their debut full length album, Hope Within Hatred, released this very week on Victory Records. Now to get you in the headbanging, crowd surfing, mosh pit shoving mood check out these videos by each band below and tell me what your favorite thrash metal band is in the comments!

Testament – Rise Up