Bleeding Me

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"Bleeding Me"

Single by Metallica
Released	1997
Recorded	May 1995 - February 1996 at The Plant Studios, Sausalito, California
Genre	Hard rock Alternative Metal Blues Metal
Length	8:18
Label	Elektra Records
Producer(s)	Bob Rock, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich
Chart positions
#6 U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks
Metallica singles chronology
"King Nothing" (1997)	"Bleeding Me" (1997)	"The Memory Remains" (1997)

"Bleeding Me" is track # 7 on Metallica's 1996 album Load. Former bassist Jason Newsted believes it is about a person being put through mental torture.

The song was never commercially released as a single, though a promotional single was distributed to radio stations in mid-1997. That year, it would reach #6 on the Mainstream Rock Charts. Both the album version and a shorter (approximately 5-6 minute) radio edit (the most notable differences from the album track being the shortening of various instrumental passages and ending the song at the conclusion of the guitar solo).

The song remains as a standout for many Metallica fans and has appeared from time to time in Metallica's live set since its release in 1996 including the live album S&M with the San Francisco Symphony.

In an interview shown on the channel Kerrang in the UK Hetfield remarked, while discussing how he thought the other members of the band felt about him and his lyrics, "How did I know whether the rest of the guys in the band felt as much about the lyrics as I did. I could be singing 'Bleeding Me' with a tear in my eye and the rest of the guys might not have cared."