event 3 Inches Of Blood
Also Playing: Saviours and Holy Grail
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Sun Nov 22
9 pm
3 Inches Of Blood, Saviours, and Holy Grail at Cactus Club
Metal has evolved in strange directions in the past 40 years, so it's refreshing to see Vancouver's 3 Inches Of Blood taking heavy inspiration from the classic '70s sound: The crunchy riffs, histrionic falsetto vocals, and D&D imagery on Here Waits Thy Doom wouldn't be out of place next to any Judas Priest or Sabbath record of that era. Saviours have earned the backhanded sobriquet “hipster metal” for the crime of rescuing heavy metal from sports bars and putting it in the earbuds of indie-rockers, along with bands like Mastodon and The Sword. Still, that’s hardly a fair assessment of the group’s sound, which crams black-tarred gobs of Venom and St. Vitus into a frenzied, buzzing, welt-raising assault with zero irony. The new Accelerated Living tones down their earlier sludge for a more head-on sonic assault.
Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Metal has evolved in strange directions in the past 40 years, so it's refreshing to see Vancouver's 3 Inches Of Blood taking heavy inspiration from the classic '70s sound: The crunchy riffs, histrionic falsetto vocals, and D&D imagery on Here Waits Thy Doom wouldn't be out of place next to any Judas Priest or Sabbath record of that era. Saviours have earned the backhanded sobriquet “hipster metal” for the crime of rescuing heavy metal from sports bars and putting it in the earbuds of indie-rockers, along with bands like Mastodon and The Sword. Still, that’s hardly a fair assessment of the group’s sound, which crams black-tarred gobs of Venom and St. Vitus into a frenzied, buzzing, welt-raising assault with zero irony. The new Accelerated Living tones down their earlier sludge for a more head-on sonic assault.
Updated 11/12/2009
