Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Rock News Weekly, 3 Inches Of Blood guitarist Shane Clark confirmed that the band are planning to work on new music. However, they intend to “take [their] time with it” and “not rush it.”

Clark said the following about the band’s plans:

“We’re gonna keep playing some fly-in gigs, but for the rest of the year we’re just gonna write songs and kind of approach it the same way we approached getting back together. And that’s just write some songs, see if it works. We’re not gonna release stuff that we don’t think is up to snuff. So we’re just gonna sort of take our time with it, not rush it. — not be, like, ‘Oh my God. We’ve gotta keep this momentum going.’”

He continued when asked if the band are still signed to Roadrunner Records:

“No… After ‘Fire Up The Blades’ — so this is, I wanna say, 2008 — they wanted to re-negotiate our contract into a deal we were not into at all. Basically, long story short, we asked them, like, ‘If we don’t take this new contract, what’s the deal?’ They’re, like, ‘Well, we’re gonna have to drop you.’ And we were, like, ‘Fucking right. Let’s say no. Then we’ll get dropped.’ And then we had a really successful year being label-less. We toured Europe with EXODUS that year and had a really good, lucrative year. And then we got signed to Century Media. Century Media was really good, and we’re technically still on Century Media. So whatever we decide to do, they have the option to release it for us.”

He also added the following when asked about formats for the release:

“We don’t know if we’re gonna do an album or a couple of singles. The landscape’s different… It’s super up in the air. I’m 50 years old, so I remember when you’re budgeted for one CD every two weeks on a paycheck, and it’s, like, you listen to the whole damn thing, even if you don’t really like it. I don’t know a whole lot of young people, but I’m not convinced that people listen to the back end of a record anymore — unless you’re a diehard. If it’s OBITUARY or — name your favorite band here — of course I’m gonna listen to the whole damn thing. But when you’re garnering new fans, the musical landscape, how people consume music, it’s singles. It’s kind of back to the ’50s. I think it’s THE BEATLES that started releasing [full-length] records.”

[via Blabbermouth]