Album Covers Contest Thingy

I know that when I get off on these music tangents, I'm really pushing my luck. I know that I'm in danger of losing all four or five of my regular readers by indulging myself like this… but I can't help it.

I had fun putting together yesterday's Metal Mascot contest, and the answers are revealed below… but before I get to that, here's a new contest for the day.

I have taken a group of thirty album covers and taken a small portion of the cover art from each. They are below. How many of them can you identify based on the small clips of art provided?

I haven't gone pure metal this time… I've tried to make it more general, and I've tried to make most of them fairly easy. I've included covers to albums that I don't even like, just to keep it fair. It wouldn't really be fair, after all, to expect everyone out there to be able to identify a small piece of the cover art from the third Anthrax album, for instance.

The Governor, of course, is going to own this contest… so I'll respectfully request that he send his guesses by e-mail (rather than comments) so as to keep this contest alive a little longer.

After I finished putting this together, Wendy seemed to get a kick out of guessing at them, so maybe you will, too.

Look at the small blocks below and see if you can identify the band and the album cover. You'll get one point for correctly identifying the band and one more for correctly identifying the name of the album. The person who submits the most correct guesses wins the title of Supreme SouthCon Album Cover Geek Of The Week.

Ready? Here they are:

Submit your guesses in the comments section… and, as usual, the honor system applies. Don't scan the comments and grab guesses that aren't really your own.

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Metal Mascots And Markers: The Answers

Yesterday I posted the following grid and challenged my readers to identify the mascot or emblem and the band associated with it.

The Governor won and is officially the Supreme SouthCon Metal Geek of the Week.

Now, for the answers and sources, if you're interested:

A: Sarg D, mascot of SOD

B: The Metal Mask was the symbol of Quiet Riot

C: Eddie, the much beloved mascot of Iron Maiden

D: This devil monster guy was on the cover of all of Dio's albums.

E: This stencil was included in Metallica's Binge & Purge box set and became a sorta kinda mascot.

F: Queensryche's symbol, which you'll find on all of their album covers.

G: Vic Rattlehead, the mascot of Megadeth, who shows up on most of their album artwork.

H: Check the artwork of most early Anthrax albums and you'll find their lovable Not-Man mascot.

I: The cover of the first Danzig album became their semi-official symbol.

Thanks to everyone who played and to everyone who indulges my occasional bouts with Metal Mania. What can I say, I'm a child of the 80's. I've gotten past the beer and the pot, but Lord help me, I still gotta have my Metal!!