I went to bed and when I woke up this morning a number of interesting bands had announced album titles and release dates for their new records. Wowza. So… here we go:

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Last month we asked you to tell us which 3 Inches of Blood song best represent the Blood Oncore High sneakers, the band’s new collaboration with Nike 6.0. Today we’re happy to extend our congratulations to the MetalSucks Maniac known only as “epic,” who wrote the winning entry:

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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:

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We’re giving away so much awesome free shit at the MS Mansion right now that I can’t even keep track of all of it, so there’s a good chance you can’t either. To wit, here’s a list of all the current contests we’re running:

• Two pairs of tickets to see Mastodon play Crack the Skye in its entirety in New York City.
• A pair of 3 Inches of Blood Nike Encore High sneakers!
• One pair of tickets to each stop of the Relapse Contamination Tour, featuring Obscura, Graves of Valor and Abysmal Dawn.
• Brutal Truth and Agoraphobic Nosebleed CDs in our (almost)-weekly Photo Caption Contest.
• Two copies of the super-extra-special edition of Machine Head’s The Blackening CD for deciphering a completely unreadable band logo.

Don’t say we never did nothin’ for ya.

-VN

Check it out: Canadian metal masters 3 Inches of Blood have collaborated with Nike 6.0 on these new kicks, the Blood Oncore High. As you can see, they may very well be the most metal sneakers ever created:

The shoes will go on sale at select retailers starting this Friday, May 1, but MetalSucks is teaming up with Nike 6.0 to give away one free pair to one very lucky winner! Here’s all you have to do to win:

IN OUR COMMENTS SECTION BELOW, TELL US WHICH 3 INCHES OF BLOOD SONG BEST REPRESENTS THE BLOOD ONCORE HIGH.

And that’s it! Axl and Vince will choose the best answer and pick a winner, who gets an absolutely free pair of these killer shoes. Please make sure you register for the comments section using a real e-mail address, as the winner will contacted by e-mail. Also, please note that this contest is open to U.S. residents only. This contest ends at midnight EST on Monday, May 4.

You can get more info on this awesome footwear at Nike 6.0′s official website, and don’t forget to check out 3 Inches of Blood’s MySpace page for all the latest info on what 31OB are up to.

After the jump, check out some more photos of this sweet ass sneakers, and then post your entry in our comments section!

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Monday was 2008 Sucks day here at MetalSucks, but we rocked out the rest of the week with some ridiculous shit as per usual:

• We announced our best-of lists for 2008. Check ‘em out.
• Contest: You tell us why you hate the holidays, we send you 100 CDs. Sweet deal.
• PA woman tortures kitties with piercings.
• We spoke with Misery Index’s Jason Netherton and Three Inches of Blood’s Cam Pipes.
• Corporate rock still sells, but Chinese Democracy apparently doesn’t.
• We hated on this band, this band and this band, the latter of whom sent their fans here in droves to hate us back.
• We wondered whether Roadrunner Records actually dropped Amanda Palmer because of her “belly fat” (hint: they didn’t even drop her).
• God Forbid released the cover artwork and tracklisting of Earthsblood, and Pack of Wolves (ex-At All Cost member) released new music.

Tonight it’s new The End Records-signees Hull for Kip and me. Have a good one, everybody.

Some people might laugh at the lyrics of songs about destroying both orcs and the enemies of metal. Others might not appreciate the sounds of the 80’s as much as the amply bearded Canadians in 3 Inches of Blood do, and anyone who’s heard them know that they piss guitar harmonies and spit falsetto like they were nursed at the teat of METAL ITSELF!

Either way, if you were once like me, then chances are you are criminally underrating them. Watching the powder-keg ignite as they took the stage at a sold out home show with Bison B.C. was a site to behold and only increased my esteem for these classic metal warriors. Just before hitting the stage in his distinctive denim vest, vocalist Cam Pipes was able to offer a few words to MetalSucks. For extra fun imagine this gentle beast falsetto singing every response!

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So apparently Fuse has a new show called Excellent Adventure (sans Bill and Ted, sadly) in which the hosts explore different music around the world. While last week’s exploration of Germany’s famous Wacken Open Air Festival certainly wasn’t the first time this gargantuan metal fest has been covered in the mainstream media, such choice nuggets as these from “Nate’s Travelogue,” a recap of the episode on Fuse’s website, are worth the time out of your day for a good laugh:

“They told me how to party like a METAL HEAD (the name used to refer to people who listen to Metal music).”

“Then I watched a METAL band called “Three Inches of Blood”. They were so good that I felt the desire to jump in the middle of a HUGE mosh pit. For those of you who DON’T know what a mosh pit is; it is a circle of guys and girls crashing into each other, while jamming to the music! I had the greatest time. Big guys, small guys, small girls, AND BIG girls were all in the pit crashing and laughing.”

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“Sand and Snow,” the new song by Light this City, is currently streaming on the band’s MySpace.

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So we finally got to meet Crustcake at the Hate Eternal/BDM/3 Inches of Blood show on Wednesday; we also got to meet Crustcake’s friend, the excellent photographer Jesse Angelo (I knew I liked Jesse right away because he was wearing a totally rad Jason Voorhees shirt… so clearly he’s a man after my own heart).

ANYWAY, Crustcake has a write-up of the show and some of Jesse’s pics here. You should check ‘em out, because, well, they’re killer. ‘Nuff said.

-AR

Vince and I were mortified when we arrived at BB King’s Blues Club in Times Square last night. Not because we were at BB King’s (not always the best venue for a metal show) or because we were in Times Square (a place of interest only to tourists and other assorted nimrods), but because it was only 8 pm and 3 Inches of Blood were just taking the stage after an “introduction” by Dr. Rockso, the Rock N’ Roll Clown who does cocaine. How the fuck had we managed to miss Hate Eternal? According to the venue’s website, doors had opened at 7, and it seemed highly improbable that openers Decrepit Birth and Hate Eternal had both already played their sets within an hour; since we were at the show largely to check out Erik Rutan and the boys, the thought that we might not get to see them was upsetting, to put it mildly.

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The Black Dahlia Murder’s latest album, Nocturnal, has been out for just about two months now, and we still can’t stop listening to it. Guess that means it’s good.

We’ll finally get a chance to hear some of that awesome material live (pleaselpay”DeathmaskDivine” pleaseplay”DeathmaskDivine” pleaselpay”DeathmaskDivine”) when the band hits the road in January on a headlining tour with 3 Inches of Blood (whose Fire Up the Blades is also pretty sweet), Hate Eternal (RU-TAN! RU-TAN! RU-TAN!), and some band we don’t know called Decrepit Birth (Hmm… wonder if their logo is completely unreadable? I’ll have to remember to look into that). Given the size of the venues the tour is hitting, I can’t imagine tickets costing more than twenty bucks or so, and that’s at least three, possibly four really good bands for your money.

Tour dates after the jump.

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