3 Inches Of Blood

Biography

3 Inches of Blood is a Canadian heavy metal band formed in 1999 in Victoria, British Columbia. After disbanding in 2015, they reunited in 2023 with a line-up of Cam Pipes, Justin Hagberg, Shane Clark, Nick Cates, and Ash Pearson. Their music is strongly influenced by the new wave of British heavy metal. The group began when Jamie Hooper, Sunny Dhak, and Bobby Froese, along with Geoff Trawick (Drums) and Rich Trawick (Bass) got together to do a one-off reunion gig for an old group of theirs, but things went so well with writing new material in a traditional metal style that they decided to continue under a new name which supposedly arose from someone suffering a minor cut. Rich Trawick's roommate, Steve Bays (keyboard player for Hot Hot Heat), heard the demo of the band's first recording and suggested having his friend Cam Pipes overdub some clean vocals to it.