3 INCHES OF BLOOD – Fire Up the Blades (Expanded Edition) – 2LP- Crimson Fire Vinyl [AUG 16]

2P – Limited Expanded Edition Crimson Fire Vinyl housed inside a gatefold jacket with lyrics…limited to 1250 ferocious copies! (Import)

How could Canadian heavy metal band 3 Inches of Blood dial up the intensity even more after their 2004 masterpiece Advance and Vanquish? Well, by bringing in Slipknot drummer Jordy Jordison to produce their next record, and adding a new instrumental line-up of former Allfather lead guitarist Justin Hagberg and former Walls of Jericho drummer Alexei Rodriguez to the bands unique dual vocalist assault of Cam Pipes on clean vocals and Jamie Hooper on scream vocals.

The result was 2007s Fire Up the Blades, which, as Hooper put it, was a faster, more intense version of us. Which means that albums dont get any faster and more intense than this one; that the epic lyrics are good enough to have been penned by George R.R. Martin of Game of Thrones fame is just a bonus.

Speaking of bonus, for the vinyl debut of Fire Up the Blades (and after consulting the band) weve upped the stakes with a 2-LP release featuring an entire side of extra tracks that were released right around the time the album was, including their cover of the Lucifers Friend song In the Time of Job When Mammon Was a Yippie.

All pressed in Crimson Fire vinyl housed inside a gatefold jacket with lyrics…limited to 1250 ferocious copies!

Tracklist:

SIDE ONE
1. Through the Horned Gate
2. Night Marauders
3. The Goatriders Horde
4. Trial of Champions
5. God of the Cold White Silence

SIDE TWO
1. Forest King
2. Demons Blade
3. The Great Hall of Feasting
4. Infinite Legions

SIDE THREE
1. Assassins of the Light
2. Black Spire
3. The Hydras Teeth
4. Rejoice in the Fires of Mans Demise

SIDE FOUR
Bonus Tracks
1. Nocturnal Command
2. In the Time of Job When Mammon Was a Yippie
3. Key to Oblivion