This song is about early Exodus concerts, where fans would sometimes literally bang their heads against the stage until it bled.
[Intro]
*Airplane flight sound*
[Verse 1]
Black magic rites on this black evil night
Begin with the slice of the blade
Metal and blood come together as one
Onlookers, they gasp in dismay
Taste the sweet blood of one another
Sharing without any greed
Bang your head, as if up from the dead
Intense metal is all that you need
[Chorus]
Murder in the front row
Crowd begins to bang
And there's blood upon the stage
Bang your head against the stage
And metal takes its price
Bonded by blood
[Verse 2]
Metal takes hold, death starts to unfold
It's loud like the world's at an end
You're in a blood fury, the metal won't stop
Onlookers, they bang at command
Cutting your palm and drinking your blood
The power that few others dare
You feel the need to go out and kill
The same need that your blood brother shares
[Chorus]
Murder in the front row
Crowd begins to bang
And there's blood upon the stage
Bang your head against the stage
And metal takes its price
Bonded by blood
[Guitar Solo: Gary Holt]
[Guitar Solo: Rick Hunolt]
[Verse 1]
Black magic rites on this black evil night
Begin with the slice of the blade
Metal and blood come together as one
Onlookers, they gasp in dismay
Taste the sweet blood of one another
Sharing without any greed
Bang your head, as if up from the dead
Intense metal is all that you need
[Chorus]
Murder in the front row
Crowd begins to bang
And there's blood upon the stage
Bang your head against the stage
And metal takes its price
Bonded by blood
Bonded by Blood was written by Gary Holt & Paul Baloff.
Bonded by Blood was produced by Mark Whitaker.
Exodus released Bonded by Blood on Thu Apr 25 1985.