Contest is now closed! Due to the site upgrade I had to take it down a bit earlier than expected.

Winners will be announced shortly

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It’s contest time again!

Ensiferum is invading America and they’re bringing Hypocrisy, Ex Deo and Blackguard along with them to the DNA Lounge in San Francisco.

Speaking of DNA, we all know what the closest living relative to man is in the animal kingdom – that’s right, primates. Provide a clever/funny/awesome caption to this photo of this lame-ass rockies fan in an ape mask and, if you’re chosen, we’ll ship you a ticket. If you don’t win, well, everyone gets to throw their feces at you (just kidding, we love you). The show is on November 19 and it is an all ages show.

We’ve got two tickets for a lucky winner to see Gojira at Slim’s in San Francisco on May 21st with supporting acts The Chariot and Car Bomb. Tell us the reason that you deserve these tickets!

The rules are simple:

Sign up (if you haven’t already).

Send an email to danspiteri [at] bayareametalscene.com with the subject “Gojira Tickets”. In the email, tell us why YOU deserve these tickets! Humor – Awesomeness – Intelligence are pluses.

A winner will be chosen a week before the show!Good luck!

It has always been hard to put a tag on Gojira, one of France’s most extreme bands that the country’s musical pallet has ever known. But then again, the band has never really sought out such a tag, instead letting the music do the talking, preferring introspection and intelligence over preconceived notions and preexisting tags. Ever since the 1996 formation in the town of Bayonne in the southwest of France, Gojira has been an ever-evolving experiment in extreme metal ultimately built upon a worldly, ever-conscious outlook with roots firmly-planted both in the hippie movement and an environmentally-conscious, new age mentality. This time, with “The Way of All Flesh,” Gojira harnesses a spiritual consciousness as well, but still culminates in a sound wholly heavy.

Great job everyone! The contest is now over, and a victor has been chosen.  Congratulations to bayareametalscene.com member metalchicksinger, you and a friend get two tickets to see Carcass!  To the rest of you, stay tuned…a new contest is already in the works!

In light of my previous post about ticketmaster raping people on surcharges, we thought that it would be nice to save the metal heads of the Bay Area some cash and give out some free concert tickets.  The lucky winner will receive two tickets (bring a friend) to see Carcass, Death Angel, Suicide Silence, The Faceless, Toxic Holocaust & Abysmal Dawn next week on Thursday, March 26 at the Grand Ballroom in San Francisco. Tickets are general admission.

Here’s the rules:

1. Signup (if you’re not already), then login.

2. Post a caption for the photo below. Winners will be judged by us on originality and on humor.

You can post as many captions as you like. If you don’t care about the tickets and just want to show everyone how clever you are, feel free to do so as well.

You have probably seen this picture floating around the internet by now. It still makes us envious, err…laugh.

Good luck!