Up for auction "Silent Killer" 3 Inches of Blood Group Signed 10X8 Color Photo. Signers are; Cam Pipes and Shane Clark. 

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3 Inches of Blood was a

Canadian heavy metal band

formed in 1999 in Victoria, British Columbia,

last consisting of Cam Pipes, Justin Hagberg, Shane Clark,

and Ash Pearson, none of whom were original members of the band. They are

marked by strong influences from the new wave of British heavy

metal movement. On June 2, 2015, the band announced it would be

disbanding following two final shows, which took place on November 7 and 8 at

the Commodore Ballroom in

their hometown.

 The group initially performed with only Jamie

Hooper as vocalist before the addition of Cam Pipes. Hooper, Sunny Dhak, and Bobby Froese, along with

Geoff Trawick and Rich Trawick filling in on drums and bass, got together to do

a one-off reunion gig for an old group of theirs; however, things went so well

with writing new material in a traditional metal style that they decided to

continue under a new moniker. Rich Trawick's roommate at the time, Steve Bays (Keyboard player for Hot Hot Heat), heard the demo of the band's first recording

and suggested having his long time friend Cam Pipes overdub some clean vocals

to it. Pipes, who at the age of 10 had sung in his school's choir,[5] overdubbed additional vocals to what became the

band's first EP, Sect of the White Worm, in

the living room of Trawick and Bays' apartment, and became a permanent band

member after the results proved to the rest of the band's liking. Their

debut album Battlecry Under a

Wintersun was recorded in 2002 and released in cooperation

with the Teenage Rampage and Fashion Before Function labels. It was later

remastered and re-released by the band under their own label entitled Minion

Music. This album had moderate underground success in the Canadian market, with

the album charting on national college radio charts and earning a Canadian

Independent Music Award for Metal Album of the Year in 2002. The band garnered

international exposure when the band's UK distribution label decided to put

them on as a support slot for a tour with platinum rock band The Darkness. This

exposure gained them much critical attention and acclaim in the world of

underground metal, and they were signed by major label subsidiary Roadrunner Records in

2004.