Yep. Two of my favorite recent bands are touring together but the Midwest and back east get the pleasure of this pairing. 3 Inches of Blood just rolled through here with Holy Grail and a bunch of other bands which I wanted to see but if this had been a California thing I'd be all over it. Oh well, my loss is your gain if you live in those regions. Dates after the jump you lucky bastards.
Here Waits Thy Doom was released in 2009 but 3 Inches of Blood, the power/thrash band from Vancouver, are gearing up after a break from a ton of shows last year to recharge the batteries for another leg of touring that will take them into February. Support is going to come from Eluveite, Holy Grail, and System Divide. This is a cool tour package because I believe Draeden likes Eluveite and I enjoyed Holy Grail's debut as well as being a big 3 Inches of Blood fan. After the jump is the tour dates and because I'm a neglectful asshole who realized he hadn't done this last year, the latest video for the song Silent Killers is posted as well.
Now, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD is unveiling an additional set of headlining dates leading into the February trek with Eluveitie. Check out the following new dates:
1/26 - Neurolux - Boise, ID
1/28 - Bourbon Theatre - Lincoln, NE
1/29 - Mojo's - Columbia, MO
1/30 - The Bluebird Nightclub - Bloomington, IN
1/31 - Altar Bar - Pittsburgh, PA
3 INCHES OF BLOOD
w/ Eluveitie, Holy Grail and System Divide
2/1 Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
2/2 New York, NY @ The Gramercy Theater
2/3 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
2/4 Quebec City, QC @ Cercle
2/5 Montreal, QC @ Le National
2/6 Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
2/8 Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge
2/9 St. Paul, MN @ Station 4
2/10 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater
2/11 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
2/12 Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Sound
2/14 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
2/15 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
2/16 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
2/17 San Francisco, CA @ Slims
2/18 Hollywood, CA @ The Key Club
2/19 Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater
2/21 San Antonio, TX @ Backstage Live
2/22 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
2/24 St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre
2/25 Orlando, FL @ Firestone Live
2/26 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
I've got a alot of band pages I've fanned up so I can get live feeds from any news they may or may not have on Facebook. Sometimes it works out because I've occasionally received breaking news before Blabbermouth on a lineup change or a break up or a album release. Most of the time it's just clutter on the page though. I have my favorites and then I have some that I wish I could unlike. Let's start with the how not to do it after the jump.
Disturbed by far has the most annoying wall feeds. If you like your bands to be narcissistic and treat their fans like it's an issue of Teen Beat, then this is the page for you. Let's go over few status updates excluding the annoying spam for each and every show they're doing in England.
"TRIVIA: Who did the cover art for Disturbed's 2005 album "Ten Thousand Fists"?
Umm...who really cares? If you like comic book art it was a cool cover but who is really obsessed with the band to know that?
"How many Disturbed albums are in your collection?"
All of them so far but if I said none would you send the mafia at me? Seriously looking for self assurance that people buy your stuff guys?
" Have you pre-ordered Asylum yet? Which version did you get?"
Seriously guys shut the fuck up. People are going to buy your shit. Relax.
In between these gems of personal interaction are behind the scene photos and merch whoring. And that's all fine but my main focus is on the status updates where someone is actually typing out something and not copy and pasting an update.
Now let's move to my favorite.
3 Inches of Blood treat the Facebook page like it's your coolest friend going out and partying every night. The kind of friend that listens to metal but geeks out on movies and videogames too. Here are samples.
"what makes a man, is it the woman in his arms? just cause she has big titties?
or is it the way, he fights every day? no, it's probably the titties"
Truer words could not be spoken.
"MAGNUM FORCE rules! All hail Dirty Harry! -jhag"
These guys are watching Clint Eastwood on the bus between shows. How cool is that?
" Show went pretty well in Virginia Beach today. Lots of cool fans at the signings, thanks for coming and saying hello. Can we please get one day where its stays cloudy all day?"
See what I'm saying here? A very down to earth, personable, and gracious post.
Now they do post concert dates and any press they get which is fine and professional but they're not so self absorbed in themselves either. Now you may be asking why the hell I have Disturbed as a fanpage anyway. Because I like their music. As do millions of others. That is why in honor of 3 Inches of blood being the cool dudes that they are I'm going to not just do a link to their Myspace. I'm going to post a clickable banner so you can check out the new deluxe rerelease of Here Waits thy Doom. Because they deserve to sell as many albums as Disturbed does without losing their soul.
The past month or so I've kind of been on another mission to check out new bands or at least new to me. And by god I've found a couple. Both of these bands are sort of a throwback to the glory days of 80's underground metal. Back when it was fun,evil,and not too thought provoking. Let the eye rolling begin as I share my discoveries.
First up is 3 Inches of Blood out of Canada. Thanks to my buddy Randy over at the Official Metal Show for turning me onto these guys. This is sword and sorcery falsetto metal at it's finest. I love me some cheese if it's done well and these guys deliver.Take Rob Halford Painkiller era vocals,Accept like riffs, and Manowar style lyrics and you got a whole ball of fun.Check it out on their latest vid off Here Waits Thy Doom cd.
They had a screaming second vocalist for previous releases but he left before this release. Check them out if you're not a snob and just want to scream along to some old timey metal.
Next up we have Toxic Holocaust from Portland Oregon. This guys are part of the ret thrash movement along with Munincipal Waste and to some extent Skeletonwitch. You can tell this because all of their logos have this graffiti style font. Anyways....this band is what you would get if you had sleaze rock looks, Kill em all riffs,and Bathory vocals. I see alot of negative comments made about these guys but they hit my G spot so whatever. Here is the Wild Dogs video off their latest cd "An Overdose of Death".
Both of these bands are a breath of fresh air for me from all the serious no fun stuff I've been hearing lately.Or maybe I'm just trying to recapture my youth.
3 Inches of Blood can can be checked out here
Toxic Holocaust can be checked out here
