“Dark yet uplifting, spiritual without any connection to religion” This is how ‘3’ describe themselves. Don’t be fooled by the album title, at first I thought it was just another ‘Nu-Metal’ release. You know, strange band name, catchy title and music we’ve heard a few million times before. But nothing of that at all ‘3’ is band averse to every form of Nu-Metal. They were formed in the mid 1990’s in Woodstock, New York and where signed to Planet Noise in 2000, they released three albums on Planet Noise (co-incident?) before Metal Blade signed the band in 2005. Wake Pig is a re-release from the 2004 album with two extra tracks and most songs re-mixed and lyrics re-written. Astonished I was when I heard the album the first time, breathless I closed my eyes and let the album came over me. ‘3’ is a band impossible to put a stamp on. Their music sounds very catchy yet very complex. The diversity between every song is very big, but not to big so you got the idea you’re listening to a compilation cd.

The use of ‘rapid-fire’ acoustic guitars in different songs makes it harder to describe their music, soft and catchy yet dark and gloomy. Whether it is the beautiful lead vocals, so melodramatic and pure, it sometimes remind me to Laury Ylone from Finnish band ‘the Rasmus’, or the instrumental perfection from the band. ‘3’ seems very much inspired by sixties and seventies bands such as Klaatu or even the Beatles, but there is much more. One can hear musical Structures we know from progressive bands as Kings X or Dream Theater, and riffs and choruses I hear with Radiohead or even with the Britain rockers from Ash. This band has taken diversity and transformed into a style of their own. Incomparable to any other band, this band has everything to become very big.