No matter what winter gift-giving holiday you normally participate in, whether it be Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Festivus, we at Invisible Oranges want to thank everyone that has taken part in Kvltmas this week. Today we present you with our last giveaway of Kvltmas (and of 2011!) with an ultimate prize pack from Relapse Records.
This package includes CD copies of Rwake’s Rest, Unkind’s Harhakuvat, Inevitable End’s The Oculus and Brutal Truth’s End Time, with a Relapse Records T-shirt to boot. A combination of sludge, grindcore, d-beat and death metal, the 2011 releases from these artists will make a great addition to your already-full stockings this year.
To enter to win, tell us in the comments below about the best present you ever received. We hope this week’s Kvltmas winners find their prize packages coming in at a close second!
This contest will close at midnight on December 30th. As always, you must have a mailing address in the continental US or Canada to win.
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Amorphis’ album Tale of the thousand lakes on my birthday!
A western hognose snake that I named Ophidia.
The darkest, most brutal gift of all: nothing.
My first guitar when I was 11. Still thankful for that one..
The best present I ever received was the inheritance of my dad’s old Harley, leather jacket (with zz top backpatch), and his old snake aquarium. Just got paid.
$200 that my Mom gave me the last Christmas she was alive. I used it and other cash to buy a mountain bike that I named “RAZORHOOF”. The ‘hoof’s frame broke and is now hanging on my wall, but given how much blood(mine and everyone else’s) was drawn, benders were had, polo games were played, good times and bad were battled through, epic rides, etc. I would never just let it stop there. I maybe even won over a girl in the presence of this bike. There’s scars all over my body from me learning the ropes of riding in “excessive conditions”. I have a different MTB now, but if anyone asks I can point them to parts I scavenged from my old bike. A spoke nipple here, brake rotor bolts there, steer tube cap, and several other things are the things I have left from the bike I brought home from the shop.
This year, I got the best present I could have wished for after 3 long years of waiting and that is Charlotte, my baby girl, who was born on december 2nd! Nothing will ever come close to this gift from life!
Merry Christmas to you all
The best present I ever got was the 2011 kvltmas relapse prize pack.
(This comment was posted from 10 years in the future)
Pussy, beer, and bud.
a banjo
The best present I ever received was the leather jacket I got from my parents 12 years ago, when I was still in high school. I still wear it every cold winter day, and a little mink oil every year keeps it looking good.
(Leather + mink oil = double fuck on veganism.)
My best gift was my daughter 3 years ago, 1 week before Christmas. Awwwwww… am I right?
A big ass bottle of black label Jim Beam whiskey! I chugged it all and saw THE FACE OF GOD!!!
I would say seeing the body and rwake playing a secret show in downtown little rock last christmas. Totally having a great time.
Just got the Equal Vision version of Converge’s “Petitioning The Empty Sky” on record a few days ago during a secret santa exchange. I’d say it’s hard to beat that!
The best Christmas present I ever received was probably my dad not dying on Christmas. Because, If I got a dead dad for Christmas, it would be a total buzzkill, and every year people would be like, “hey sorry about your dead dad”, and I’d have to say something like, “Oh well it’s not so bad. The one nice thing about getting a dead dad on Christmas is that you’ll never get that present ever again. I really like these socks you got me. You’re right, Kittens = Hilarious, aunt Jen.” So for me, its what I didn’t get for Christmas was the gift that keeps on giving… Atleast until it can’t give me anything anymore because it’s dead.
I got Kiss’ Creatures of the Night when I was 12. I changed my life!
A fucking Atari!!!
Seriously, my 9 year old self was pretty goddamned stoked about that one.
I was practically raised by my grandparents. My grandpa and I were especially close, so when he died when I was 14, it hit me especially hard.
A few years later my grandmother gave me framed photographs of me with each of my grandparents for Christmas. I’ve kept them on my wall ever since, no matter how many times I’ve moved around. My grandmother just died last month, and I find myself staring at those photos a lot these days.
Super Nintendo, fo’ sho’.
this year, 2 weeks ago, my golden retriever ate 33 1″ nails, some small screws and we had to rush her to the animal hospital, all I wanted for christmas was for her to pass all the nails and screws without having to cut her open and well, she did just that after a few days without a single scratch and is fine and dandy right now and that was my BEST christmas gift ever. I’d still love to win this tho
Best present ever? An electric shaver. Truly the most practical thing someone has ever bought for me.
My best present ever, a huge drumset when I was in grade 8 from my parents!
When I was 4, my dad built a fort for my Battle Trolls. It was set up under the tree when I woke up.
Battle Trolls forever.
The best Christmas present I ever got was a dried squid my brother got me when he went to Montreal and made a stop in China Town.
5′7″ Deluxe Medical Anatomical Artificial Human Skeleton. It had been laying around in a hospital store room for years.
The best Christmas presents I ever received date back to 1996 when I was given tickets to see Metallica’s upcoming concert at the Delta Center in Sal Lake City, Utah, scheduled to take place on January 2nd, 1997. I asked for a few additional trivial gifts just in case I happened to be disappointed, but the Metallica tickets were what I wanted the most. I realize that this was the Metallica tour in support of Load and Korn opened the show and that I could be opening myself up to all sorts of derision, but there are a few things to keep in mind. Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Machine Head and Sepultura were among my favorite bands, (not a lot has changed in this context) and I had yet to see any of them live. This Metallica show was my first time ever seeing Metallica. The last time Metallica played Utah was in the summer of 1994 for the Shit Hits the Sheds tour with Suicidal Tendencies, Alice In Chains and Candlebox, which I was not allowed to attend since my parents thought that a heavy metal show was no place for a (then) fourteen year old. However, my prospects at seeing concerts were starting to change for the better because as I got older, my parents were not as strict with what I could and could not attend with friends. Furthermore, Salt Lake City and its surrounding areas were not known as a popular stop for metal tours. It was common at the time for bands to completely skip over Utah, or if we were lucky to possibly swing through on a second or third leg of touring.
I received the Metallica tickets on Christmas Day and I had to quickly figure out who was going to use the two extra tickets since the show was taking place eight days later. I took my younger brother and my good friend/football teammate Dave from high school. We had a fantastic time at the show. Korn were touring in support of Life Is Peachy and were not altogether terrible. Metallica, however, were the reasons we were in attendance and they did not disappoint. They had their Stage in Center set up, and thankfully only played two or three songs from Load. They drew the bulk of their set from their classic back catalog. Seeing some of my favorite Metallica songs played live, (“One,” “Creeping Death,” “Fade to Black,” “Sad But True” and so forth) definitely left an indelible impression on my sixteen year old psyche. I was gullible enough to believe that the roadie who at the end of the show wound up engulfed in flames was not staged but was really a serious accident, (my brother and Dave enjoyed calling me a dumbass as we walked back to meet my parents after the show). Plus, going to the show with Dave further cemented our friendship and initiated a string of fantastic tours we would attend throughout the next few years, (Pantera/Clutch/Neurosis, Earth Crisis/Downset, Machine Head/VOD, Helmet/The Melvins and so forth). My excitement at receiving the Metallica tickets and finally getting the opportunity to see one of my favorite bands live is still with me today fifteen years after the fact.
beer. lots of it.
The TRS-80 Model I that my grandfather bought me when he was in the hospital, presumably thinking he might not get out alive. He recovered and had several more good years, and I started down the path of hardcore nerdiness that I’ve trod ever since.
I’m going to have to bend the rules here and name something I gave a good buddy of mine years ago. A bag of potatoes. Not that he was very happy with it (although he did have a good laugh hearing how the supermarket girl had no problem wrapping a bag of potatoes in christmaspaper), but it made the evening when another buddy said “We need some good steak with that.” Third guy (who knew nothing of our troll-present) didn’t blink and pulled out a rare steak out of his plastic bag. Nobody knew why he was carrying it with him. Had a great dinner and laughs that resonate ten years on.
First time with
girl!!!!
A Red Ryder BB gun of course…I did in fact nearly shoot my eye out…
No, truth be told my best present was the original Atari 2600 which cost an arm and a leg but was absolutely worth it in 1981…
Optimus Prime was the best gift I would ever receive. I peeked at my presents a few weeks before and discovered the glorious booty. I was so excited that I made up a song about what I was getting that I would sing while skipping to school (this was before I discovered metal). I was also so excited that I mistakenly shared the news with my next door neighbor, who shared the news with my sister, who shared the news with my mother who shared the news with me. Worst guilt trip of my life. Still, it was the best Christmas present ever.
When I was 10 and learning to play the organ, my parents bought me a Yamaha HS-4 organ, which then was a top notch product. It appeared in the apartment one day near my birthday as I came home from school, after having had a bad day (some hackles with friends in class) and I was completely surprised to find this beast (at least that’s how it looked to me then) and proceeding, after having screamed my lungs out with joy, to play it for several hours non-stop.
My unemployment check…But seriously, probably the couple of gifts i got back in 1985 when i was a wee lad. First a Micheal Jackson action figure complete with a removable red leather jacket, removable golden white glove and a mic. Followed closely by the fully assembled Voltron that i found parked next to my inflatable, full size green He-Man tiger. Christmas’s just haven’t really been the same since…Of course the “Live Shit Binge and Purge” Metallica box set was kind of a Christmas wet dream come true years later. Still own that one.
This See You Next Tuesday shirt that I’m shown wearing at the company Christmas party.
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My first guitar.
A whole bunch of books and Lego, when I was a kid…oh those were the golden days
Miskatonic, Prime was my best gift as well! Back in the days of still mostly metal Transformers toys. To anyone who gained children at Christmas, you pretty much win. That would be the best. To anyone who lost someone close at Christmas, my condolences. I lost my grandfather (Grampy) two weeks ago last year. It’s about the worst. And to everyone in general, Merry Christmas! This year I got 2 free holiday dinners with friends families and a day off to actually relax. I’m doing just fine.
Nintendo 64 w/ Star Fox 64
My Fender P-Bass. I probably wouldn’t be listening to or making metal today if it wasn’t for that sexy beast!
The best present I ever got was a truck for my birthday. Not much more to be said, Absolutely awesome present which I got many many years of use from. Merry Christmas everyone.
Judas Priest – Screaming For Vengeance [on vinyl]. First Metal album I ever got. Still my favorite band to this day!
Jackson Dinky for my 18th a few years back.
I got a Nintendo in 1986. I never did shit after that. That thing ruled.
A hooker.
My buddy got me a couple of pint glasses that say “Fuckin’ Slayer” for Christmas this year, I gotta say, that’s a top contender.
I got it this year! A Yoda backpack! It looks like I’m giving him a piggy back like Luke did in Empire running around the swamp.
That or the CD player I got to finally play the Pantera CD I bought before I even had something to play it on.
a cassette player in 1987, along with Iron Maiden’s Seventh Son. Changed my life.
Cherry Pie. The food. So damn good.
The Complete Far Side Collection
Best gift I ever recevied was this year and it was a nerf gun from my Mother-in-Law. Automatic nerf gun. HAHA can not go wrong with that
This year was pretty stellar. I got a vinyl player along with a copy of Ghost’s Opus Eponymous on vinyl. Oh, and a copy of the Poetic Edda. Nothing beats great music and Viking lore.
hmm… my best christmas gift.. I would say that my best gift was the first NES console when I was like 6. That was my first video games console, and well, I still play almost 20 years later. That, my friends, is a gift I used a lot. And God knows that console made today like Xbox or Playstation, in 20 years, will NOT work, and IF it works, we will have put them to garbage, because it will suck. NES forever.
The Sinister Altered Since Birth Box Set would be the best gift I received this Christmas
My Indigo Blue Tama Starclassic Performer drum kit in 2001. Been recording and gigging on that same kit for the last 10 years.
A shrink wrapped copy of We Wish You a Turtle Christmas.
Best xmas gift I received was my Gibson sg, mxr condenser mic, presonus midi box and maudio and fostex studio monitors! \m/
Your mother.
Kelly from Gorgy gave me a free cd and shirt as a gift for speeding through red lights to get them to Wal Mart to get a new tire before they closed, so they could make it home to Kentucky after their gig in Colorado Springs.
The best present I ever had was when my girlfriend bought me tickets to see Mastodon, Baroness and Between the Buried and Me. This was in 2009, when these bands were still a pretty big deal (to me, anyway).
The reason I liked this present so much is because my girlfriend isn’t into metal at all, and we had only been dating a few months, so at this point I was still trying to “hide” my passion for heavy music [via trying to resemble a normal, well adjusted person]. Anyway, she somehow figured out that I thought Mastodon were, like, the best band ever, and completely took me off guard by not only buying the tickets but ATTENDING TO THE SHOW with me as well! She hated the music, of course, but it really meant the world to me.
My 1st boss would always give us a weeks worth of pay. I worked for him 7 years. extra weeks worth of pay was nice!!!!!
The best gift that comes to memory was a rather expensive nylon-acoustic guitar, my first, when I was 12 years old. It was from both my parents and my sister; and considering that my dad & sister hated each others guts, it must have been pretty special to get me this from all of them. For me, it was the beginning of the end, ha ha!
You know what I got for Christmas?
A crushed soul.
Blowjob.
best Christmas gift I’ve received was a pirate flag >;D
Venom “Black Metal” vinyl picture disc!
PARTY LIKKERS!!!!!
Well,
My best Metal Kultmas present was when I won the KULTMAS giveaway package. I’m not so sure that my stuck up zombie neighbors felt the same as soon I as started blasting Rwake, there was no Rest, and after all that Harhakuvat from Unkind, I was over the End Time when I played Brutal Truth, before by Inevitable End, one of those zombies got to my door to strip me off one of my Occulus.
Sweet memories.
One of my relatives got me a box of ding dongs one time.
GG Allin Hated Dvd from my wife
It was Hohner’s chromatic mouth harmonica. Or iPhone4? Idk. People doesn’t love me and presents me very usual things.
My Best present ever, was a city-trip in Barcelona with my girl-friend. Sun is important sometimes.
My birthday is one week before Kultmas, so I’m going to count this:
My girlfriend planned a trip to Seattle the morning after an Agalloch concert we went to in Portland to see them again along with Alda and Allerseelen that Saturday night. Hotel and all!
Best present ever…Well pardners that’s gotta be an electric race car set gifted via the maternal granny on about 30 years ago. Old school job w/the deuce metal conductors underneath & trigger-style juice in the palm of my sweaty bandit hands. Pounding that track got me under the hood of some bona fide street rods later on & I parlayed that speed direct into a speed metal band & we’ve done our damnedest to never look back. From the track to the axe that’s my best gift ever.
best gift so far was this years’ 300$ relapse package as they had that adulthood deal
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