3 INCHES OF CENTURY MEDIA
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 at 12:40pm by Axl Rosenberg
Last year our own David Bee Roth, got to chat with 3 Inches of Blood vocalist Cam Pipes (who has maybe the most appropriate name for a singer ever). One of the topics that came up was the band’s break-up with Roadrunner:
One of the major events this year is that you’ve split with Roadrunner records. What happened to that relationship between the label and the band?
It was time for them to decide if they were going to pick up the option for the next record. They didn’t and we’re happy about it because we didn’t really like being with that label. There was a lot of things inside the label that we didn’t like in terms of how they showed their support for us and how they pushed our band in the press. We really didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of things. They’re a really big corporate label now owned by Warner, so they’re moving strictly in a “We want to make money” direction and we weren’t putting up the numbers that they would have liked to see. We got dropped on the priority list time and time again and then they finally decided that it wasn’t economically viable to keep releasing this band. It’s enabled us to be a lot more creative on where we want to go. We’re not tied down to a long term contract anymore, so we can go explore other options and hopefully we’ll be a little more free to do certain things with a label that’s a lot more focused to promote us in a better way and [is] more geared towards our style.
Well, following in the footsteps of former and now once again current labelmates Daath (who I guess are still kinda sorta on Roadrunner?), it looks like 3IOB have landed on Century. Thus spake Pipes in a statement:
“Ever since our departure from our previous label, Century Media has been in the forefront trying to get us to sign with them. No other label showed as much enthusiasm and belief in our band as they did. Right from the start we all got a great feeling from the whole Century Media team. We feel comfortable with the vision they have for us and are confident they have the necessary tools and motivation to help us in the ways our previous label didn’t. We can’t wait to unleash this new material upon the masses.”
The band is in the studio with producer Jack Endino of High on Fire fame, who strikes me as a good fit for 3IOB if ever there was one. I don’t know if they’ll manage to get their Century debut out this year or in 2010, but we’ll drop more knowledge when we have it.
-AR
labels are the leech on the ass of smaller bands. LOOK WHT HAPPENED WITH FEAR FACTORY, DUE TO ROADRUNNER BEING ASSHOLES..what a pitty.
I believe roadrunner has the option to resign Daath if they blow up basically
The new Daath was released on CM. If RR has the option to get them back, then CM is in bed with RR and logically in bed with Warners.
Not necessarily if Daath’s contract with RR had several albums left but RR did not want to release an album and allowed Daath to go out to another label for this one why wouldn’t CM or anyone else at least look into it. Just because they released it doesn’t mean they are “in bed” with RR and Warner they just saw it as a worthwhile investment, even if it only ends up for one album which if it does will basically mean that Daath did really well.
Now I’m not a music lawyer or anything but I’m pretty sure that’s the gist of it right there.
alot of my favorite bands are on roadrunner like devildriver, megadeth, dream theater, then theres other great bands on there too. but it seems to me roadrunner is good at not keeping the less popular bands happy
eitehr way 3iob is still up there on my favorites list and im sure their next cd, with century, is gonna be just as brutal as their other stuff
CM will take good care of them.
Not a very big kit the drummer has? We are the cymbals?
That was the first thing I noticed too. Wondered if it was just the camera angle.
WE. ARE. THE. CYMBALS.
This is good news. What’s got me more curious, however, is the question of whether the other vocalist Jamie Hooper will return to the fold for the new album. Still an official member but he’s been out of commission for a while now.
This is what I keep thinking everytime I hear any 3IOB news. I hope he comes back. The live show isn’t the same without him running around screaming.
From what i hear.. is that he will be back for the recording of the album. Let’s hope this is the case.
This IS great news. Fire Up the Blades was an excellent album that in turn helped me get into Advance and Vanquish, which I was previously unable to gain a massive interest in. The next album should be great, and with CM behind them, they’ll probably get the push they need.
It’s nice to see Century Media signing good bands again.
If a company doesn’t want to “make money” they go out of business.
Thanks Sammy for your business advice. There are many other factors and different ways to go about making money. Also there is making money and there is being greedy, being cut throat, etc. Don’t forget they are selling art. That’s different than selling Pepsi. I don’t believe Roadrunner has cared about their ‘product’ (other than moving units) for a long time. They don’t gamble like they did with Suffo, Malevolent, Cynic, etc. They pick up bigger dropped bands; Misfits, Megadeth, and drop smaller ones.
Hey 2kvlt4U, thanks for not even knowing the definition of “advice”. I did not offer advice. I merely pointed out that businesses don’t exist without “making money”. It’s pretty presumptuous of YOU to infer they were being greedy or cut throat. Do you have their P&L or balance sheet in front of you? Maybe for every dollar pumped into 3IOB they lost $1.50. Now, if Pipes had elaborated that the RR execs said they were only profiting 8% off the band and not some higher requirement, then I’d be with you 100%. All he said was the company wanted to make money and I pointed out (correctly) that companies don’t exist otherwise.
Hmm so are they in the studio with or without Jamie Hooper??
killer. simply killer
mookie singerman from genghis tron ALSO has a great name for being a singer in a band
Good call, I can’t believe I forgot all about poor Mookie.