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.
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