3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom
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Iron MaidenDestroy Destroy Destroy
Iced Earth
Judas Priest
Release Date
09/08/2009
Label
Century MediaTracklist
1 Battles and Brotherhood 4:462 Rock in Hell 4:56
3 Silent Killer 4:12
4 Fierce Defender 5:15
5 Preachers Daughter 6:47
6 Call of the Hammer 2:57
7 Snake Fighter 3:18
8 At the Foot of the Great Glacier 3:17
9 All of Them Witches 6:42
10 12:34 1:45
11 Execution Tank 7:33
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Over the course of their last three albums, 3 Inches of Blood had greatly improved with each release. Their last two albums were pretty fun (if not slightly repetitive), and their hybrid of straight-up heavy and power metal laden with catchy riffs and tongue-in-cheek Manowar-style lyrics about the gloriousness of metal were another two un-serious metal records for metalheads who didn't take themselves too seriously. On their fourth LP and first since leaving Roadrunner Records, the band have regressed to the simplicity and shoddy amateurishness of their début record, Battlecry Under a Wintersun.
The departure from Roadrunner has also seen a departure of other once redeeming features of the group. The first thing you'll notice is how dire the production is. I haven't heard such a poor job since Fall of Troy's Manipulator - this record really doesn't even sound mastered properly. Secondly, the band's second vocalist, Jamie Hooper, who provided the band's quasi death-metal back-up croaks and shrieks left the band prior to this release and his vocals are therefore absent. Thirdly and finally: there's the absolutely terrible quality of the music.
We've still got the Iron Maiden-aping riffing (although its been rather tamed down), but the thrash metal elements are practically fully absent. Over the course of the album, the songs mesh together in a generic blur of boring predictability and repetitiveness, and Cam Pipe's high-pitched Rob Halford-esque wails get very grating after only a couple of tracks. The shoddy production doesn't do him any favours either.
I mean, seriously, there's really no excuse for the state of the production. I don't know if they're trying to aim for the damp and aged production style of 80's Judas Priest albums, but I've heard better production values on self-produced records from 16-year-old emo kids on pocket-money budgets.
I guess the novelty has worn off with 3 Inches of Blood (nobody has yet figured out whether or not they're actually a joke band) as there's absolutely no redeeming features to be found here. Here Waits Thy Doom could've been slightly improved – and I mean slightly – by shaving 20 minutes off the album length, but as a 50 minute release it's just way too much to handle, and I'm left echoing the very same sentiments as with the last Children of Bodom and Destroy Destroy Destroy records: Try something new or give it up already!
--Rich Taylor
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Leeds, England
Well I'm glad at least Rick agrees with me :)
Minnesota
Well, I've thought this band has always been terrible. I never ever ever ever ever understood their appeal to anyone anywhere with any tastes. I was being generous with my 1 star :-)