3 INCHES OF BLOOD — Long Live Heavy Metal (review)

3 INCHES OF BLOOD — Long Live Heavy Metal album cover Album · 2012 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Time Signature
Metal woman...

Genre: traditional metal / speed metal

"Long Live Heavy Metal" is a very appropriate title, indeed; this is an all out hävy metöl album that captures all good things about the metal of the 80s.

With a deliberately retrospective approach, which indeed pervades all things 3 Inches of Blood, the Canadian metallers deliver the goods in the form of 12 metal-as-fuck. For instance, "Metal Woman" is comparable to early Running Wild and Judas Priest, while "Leave it on the Ice" and "My Sword Will Not Sleep" are all-out speed metal songs, and "Die for Gold (Upon the Boiling Sea IV)" is more of an old school thrasher akin to early Exodus. A song like "Leather Lord" sounds - perhaps unsurprisingly - very Painkiller-inspired (could it even a song about Rob Halford himself?). Featuring galloping guitars, noodling guitar harmony figures, ripping riffage and pounding drums, the tracks on the album are, to make a long story short, pretty much the epitome of high quality retro metal. "Man of Fortune", which, for my money, is probably the best track on the album, really summarizes the whole album pretty well, even adding a Manowar-esque sense of epicness in the bridge and also offers an epic power metal-style chorus.

One of the main attractions is Cam Pipes' vocals. His screaming and screechy singing style is as always an acquired taste, but if you dig Rob Halford's style on "Painkiller", then should Cam Pipes should click right away - I, for one, loves his voice.

If you like good old fashioned heavy metal music with all the bells and whistles - including texts about swords, sorcery, epic battles, and terrors of the seven seas terror - then you should not hesitate to purchase 3 Inches of Blood's "Long Live Heavy Metal".
Share this review
more

Review Comments

Post a public comment below | Send private message to the reviewer
Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!

Review Index

Member Zone

Username:
Password:
Stay signed in

Metal Subgenres

Artists Alpha-index

MMA TOP 5 Metal ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
Master of Puppets Thrash Metal
METALLICA
Buy this album from our partners
Paranoid Heavy Metal
BLACK SABBATH
Buy this album from our partners
Moving Pictures Hard Rock
RUSH
Buy this album from our partners
Powerslave NWoBHM
IRON MAIDEN
Buy this album from our partners
Rising Heavy Metal
RAINBOW
Buy this album from our partners

New Metal Artists

New Metal Releases

Hin helga kvöl Atmospheric Sludge Metal
SÓLSTAFIR
Buy this album from MMA partners
The Cycles of Suffering Black Metal
BURIAL OATH
Buy this album from MMA partners
The Suns of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion Black Metal
PANZERFAUST
Buy this album from MMA partners
Facilis Descensus Averno Death Metal
SAEVUS FINIS
Buy this album from MMA partners
Merciless Crossover Thrash
BODY COUNT
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Metal Online Videos

DAWN OF REVENGE - Sanctuary [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 5 days ago
DAWN OF REVENGE - Farewell [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 5 days ago
DAWN OF REVENGE - Curtain of Death - [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 5 days ago
DAWN OF REVENGE - Vengeance [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 5 days ago
DAWN OF REVENGE - I Need You [official music video]
DAWN OF REVENGE
Bosh66· 5 days ago
More videos

New MMA Metal Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Metal News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us
Follow us on Twitter Become a Facebook fan RSS Feed