3 Inches of Blood-Fire Up The Blades (2007)
Artist: 3 Inches of Blood
Title: Fire Up The Blades
Format: CD
Cat: 1686-180232
Year of Release: 2007
Country and Year of Edition: US 2007 13 track version
Sell Price: $3.45 11/20/23
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 11/19/23 NM/VG+ $7.08
Low: $0.99
Median: $3.98
Average: $4.23
High: $8.09
Current low price: $3.99
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 12
Have/Want: 576/59
Where Sold: Pembroke, MA
Time It Took To Sell: 8 years
Where and When Bought: mail order on web late aughts
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+
Sad To See It Go: No
Hailing from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 3 Inches of Blood I found to be consistently enjoyable on their 3rd full length, about 5 years into their existence in the aughts. I can't remember if I booked this band and didn't see them or if I heard them somewhere, but I liked them enough to have this album and the one before it on my shelf. I didn't go any further through their last release in 2013. They did a one-off gig in Vancouver last September after 9 years off, so maybe they will be active again for me to finally see them.
Watching the videos, I finally learned that they have two vocalists: a long haired shrieker (think Udo/Halford) and a shouter that doesn't go into the cliched guttural zone. Anvils and axes fly. This puts the album firmly with speed metal, thrash and power NWBHM. Every time I think the band might be sounding a little samey, I get an "Oh!" yelled or a chugging rhythm that puts me in my place.
I've listed to this all the way through several times now and I can't really say anything bad about it for this reason. The only thing is i can never seem to distinguish any of these 13 tracks (there a 14th on the Japanese version of this). I've been bouncing between B and B+ because of this, but I think I'm leaning toward wanting to hear it some more.
Good maybe great at what they do.
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