Static-X has just released their heaviest album in years! Cult of Static features more of the hard-charging industrial metal their legions of fans have come to expect from the California killing machine. To help celebrate the release and their current tour, Static-X and Shockya.com are giving one fan a chance to win a special Wayne Static signature model ESP guitar. How cool is that?! Click Here to enter. Hurry, the contest ends on May 10th, 2009.

Static-X has just posted the first single off their forthcoming album, Cult of Static on their official MySpace page. “Stingwray” was inspired by Wayne Static’s wife, former adult film star Tera Wray Static, and the Corvette Stingray she drives. Keeping the integral tones, Static-X encompasses shredding guitars with solos that have brought the band to a level of playing to be reckoned with. The cybernetic stomp of “Hypure” and “You Am I” bludgeon, bruise and break with precise grooves. Elsewhere, the staccato riffs on “Terminal” crush through an unmistakable guitar tone. Guitarist Koichi Fukuda blazes through incendiary solos, while Tony Campos bolts down demonic bass lines and Nick Oshiro pounds…