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Artist Biography

• Bryan Mitchell is the lyricist, guitarist and songwriter for the majority of the work. He is a former Drill Instructor, Army Veteran, who has experienced many things in the world, including a year in Iraq. Currently, he is a high school English teacher. He has written lyrics and music most of his life.
  
• Joe LaRose is the man who saved the band. For nearly two years, Blood Trails had Tommy the Zombie as their drummer, but they had parted ways from their long-time friend and drummer. It was a difficult thing to do and the prospects of a replacement were slim. Several drummers failed to make the right fit, until Joe came around. With only three months of preparation, he went into the studio and gave a performance that illustrates that he is capable of navigating the difficult sequences in Blood Trails' music. Joe fits into this band like a shoe, for his style evolves with the music.
  
• Ralph Rosenbaum had played with Bryan In Insane Society. At that time, he was the lead guitarist. Because he is versatile in music and can play nearly any instrument he touches, he was welcomed into Blood Trails as the bass player who never owned a bass. That soon changed, and before long he was writing songs for Blood Trails as well. He is responsible for the creation of 2012 and The Death Lecture. Like Tree, he as worked all his life and has put all his energy into making powerful music. It's amazing what a little blood, sweet, and guts can do.
  
• These members are not spoiled children; they're grown men. They know what life feels like when you're down and out. They are hardened, experienced, mindful, and considerate; their music reflects that.

Blood Trails Biography

Blood Trails began around 1996 as a garage band named Insane Society. With major influences from Metallica and Black Sabbath, the music got right to the core of heavy metal. No particular genre of metal confines their sound; while sustaining a raw metal sound, Blood Trails penetrates into various subgenres of metal. All of their songs and performances are driven by real passion.

Their lyrics create powerful images, capturing the very soul of their music. In "The Death Lecture" the second verse starts, "The cold hard ground, the December mile/ I'm lowered down to an empty grave/ The coffin creaks with a rusted sound/ The canopy laughs in the breeze." With this powerful imagery, the lyrics are accompanied by a wailing voice filled with anger, pain and despair. It is followed by these tender words: "When the time has come/ for you to say goodbye to me/ I hope you know that I'm sorry/ I couldn't be there for you/ To help you handle these things... This verse is only one example of the writer's ability to charge the senses and the singer's ability to conjure real emotion.

The music is a labyrinth of sound as it weaves its way from start to finish. Consider "The Guardian", which starts with a two-minute instrumental accompanied by "Psalm 23". It starts with a comforting feeling, but explodes into a full metal onslaught unit it dies into a courageous melody that builds into another powerful sequence of metal riffs. When you think it's over, the voice erupts with "Do you feel the chill running up your spine? Do you feel the breeze as I walk by?" building itself into a first-person narration from a battle-laden guardian angel.

There is nothing generic about Blood Trails; every song is an entity of its own. Recently, they spent two days in the studio and produced an 8 track high quality live recording CD.