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CD Review - 3 Inches Of Blood- Here Waits Thy Doom [Album] 3 Inches Of Blood- Here Waits Thy Doom [Album]


3 Inches Of Blood- Here Waits Thy Doom [Album]

Century Media (Out Now in Europe, September 8th in USA)

August 31, 2009, 02:43 PM

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The first time I heard 3 Inches Of Blood was probably the same as most people via some sort of media (in this case Tony Hawk's Underground) which used 'Deadly Sinner' as a track. The first 3 Inches of Blood album was a good one to listen to if you were a fan of stories about myths (Orcs) and pirates (before Alestorm).

The second album however, despite the production of Joey Jordison didn't seem to have the same kick to it. During the break though we have seen a big change in 3 Inches Of Blood's line-up with a new drummer (due to an infamous incident that I won't go into detail about here) and a bigger change in that Jamie Hooper left the band which now meant Cam Pipes is now the main vocalist on "Here Waits Thy Doom".

We start the album with 'Battles and Brotherhood' which opens the album well with it's fast pace and shows how the new line-up gel quite tightly for their first record together. The same goes for the next track 'Rock In Hell' which captures how to rock out with the devil quite well! The same also applies to songs such as 'Snake Fighter'.

As you can probably tell the lyrics are more diverse than just myths and pirates this time around so the doubters will probably be silenced by the time we get around to 'Preachers Daughter' as we hear a more southern Hard Rock style sound similar to bands like Clutch on this track which makes this a personal favourite of mine.
'Call Of The Hammer' is a worthy song to have as a single. It is nice and short and is a pure headbanging track with the thrash style guitar and drums throughout!

The last two songs on the album 'All Of Them Witches' and '1234/Execution Tank' take the 3 Inches of Blood sound into a more epic storytelling quality with 'Execution Tank' building up with an instrumental worthy of old school Metallica before Cam's vocals finally kick in giving the track that extra edge it needed (I did think it was going to be an instrumental at first though).

The production on the album by Jack Endino shows how he's adapted the grunge style of production (previous works include Mudhoney's "Superfuzzbigmuff" and Nirvana's "Insecticide") to the metal sounds of Three Inches of Blood very well. The album sounds clear throughout and the solos really have that riff quality to them this time around.

Overall "Here Waits Thy Doom" sees a big return for 3 Inches Of Blood and if these songs are this good on record wait until the live shows begin. A very welcome return.





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Nice review Matt. One of your better reviews of late.
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Cheers man! It's a case of trying to get a bit more of the history and dissecting the tracks more... looking at the other Chris' Papa Roach review (even before the edit) kind of forced me to wake up!


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The dude on the left in the big pic looks feckin meeeeeen
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And the others don't???


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