Were there any concerns that the sound of 3 Inches of Blood would be a lot different with four different people writing?
We knew it would be a little different, but there wasn’t much concern. Justin [Hagberg, guitar] and I had joined about two weeks after ADVANCE AND VANQUISH was released. He and I had toured for that record exclusively. We had done a couple of years of touring for that, so we definitely had the whole vibe down. But what we didn’t want to do was ADVANCE AND VANQUISH part two. So we dived into our straight-up metal influences and added Cam and Jamie’s thing to it to get the 3 Inches sound to it, the dual vocal dynamic. We just wanted to up the ante. ADVANCE AND VANQUISH is a great album but we wanted to be a bit less monotonous. I think this album has more peaks and valleys. It dives into more heaviness in parts and then it actually gets a little more rocking in other spots and everything in between. To answer your original question, we went into it very confidently to do something new for the band and keep the 3 Inches sound but still do something new. FIRE UP THE BLADES – 2007 There’s d
