3 Inches Of Blood to release new music next year

Nearly ten years after their original breakup, Canadian metallers 3 Inches Of Blood have revealed they are working on new music, as per MetalInjection. Frontman Cam Pipes stated during this year’s Hell’s Heroes Festival in Houston that although new music is planned, fans shouldn’t anticipate a hasty release.

There is a plan to write some songs. We are working on new stuff. When it will actually be unleashed on people’s ears is another thing. But we’re not gonna rush it. But there’s lots of ideas in our camp with songwriting. So, the plan is spend most of this year kind of working those songs out and getting them good. ‘Cause show-wise, we’re not gonna be super busy this year – Hell’s Heroes is one of our only shows we’re doing this year – 2027 we’re planning on being a lot busier. And then that’s when we’re gonna start trickling out some new music.

After releasing five albums, the band first called it quits in 2015. However, they made a “full-circle return” in 2024 with a hometown comeback show. Since then, they have also held a number of reunion shows to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their cult second album, “Advance and Vanquish”. Pipes acknowledged that the band took a cautious approach to the comeback after considering the decision to get back together and the huge response from fans.

I don’t think we’ve doubted the motivation that we had necessarily. But we just kind of took our time discussing it, making sure we all sort of were on the same page with how we wanted to do it. And I think enough time had gone by that eventually someone proposed the question, ‘Yeah, let’s get the band back together,’ that old cliché or whatever. But I think we were pretty confident that it would be well received.

And we’ve been delighted by the response, even though… The reaction’s been even better than we could have anticipated, so, obviously, we’re elated about that. And we’re just having fun with it, keeping our shared sort of plan with how we wanted to keep the band going at this rate and do what we wanna do but also give the people what they want, I guess.