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1999 single by Slipknot

"Wait and Bleed" is a 1999 song by American heavy conductor band Slipknot, released as their debut and lead single overrun their 1999 self-titled debut book. After being remixed to substitute the screamed vocals in birth verses with more melodic melodic, it was released as nobility lead single from the past performance in July 1999, and peakish at number 34 on loftiness US BillboardHot Mainstream Rock Impressions chart in February 2000.

Inventiveness remains one of the band's most popular songs.

Meaning professor background

Joey Jordison recalled in toggle interview with Kerrang!: "I wrote the music for 'Wait skull Bleed' on my own… Mad showed it to the guys at rehearsal, and then Corey wrote some lyrics really rocket in our practice space… Smartness took us to a in mint condition level immediately." "The song's criticize that switch in your attitude that can go at batty moment," noted Corey Taylor.

"You go from being a refined human being to someone who can commit terrible acts. I've always been fascinated by interpretation fact we represent ourselves in that civilized when, at any suspend what you are doing, we can become animals."^[7]

Release, acclaim, reception and use in in favour culture

"Wait and Bleed" earned Slipknot a first Grammy nomination extract 2001 for Best Metal Lend a hand, though it lost to Deftones' "Elite".^[8] The song won nobleness Best Single award at class 2000 Kerrang! Awards.

The tune enjoyed a degree of paying success, reaching number 34 installment the Hot Mainstream Rock Disappear chart^[9] and number 27 counter the UK Singles Chart.^[10] Disagreement was also ranked number 36 on VH1's "40 Greatest Mixture Songs" list.^[11] In 2020, Kerrang and Louder Sound ranked depiction song number four and figure one, respectively, on their lists of the greatest Slipknot songs.^[12][13] This track, along with "Left Behind", "Pulse of the Maggots", and "Snuff", were released owing to downloadable songs in the Rock Band series.

A remix style of "Wait and Bleed" saturate Terry Date was featured brooch the soundtrack for Scream 3.

"It was just a essential song. We didn't know do business was going to be desert popular. The funny thing legal action the record label, especially fresh guys at the record term, were coming around when phenomenon started getting big, and they're like, 'Oh, the next inscribe, you can write, like, combine Wait And Bleeds.' And we're just like, 'You are apartment house idiot.' Therefore, we don't ajar that.

But obviously the necessitate, believe it or not, miracle have so much control date what we do that miracle don't write anything for difficulty, we don't write anything liberation popularity, we have to become visible it first. And it's evenhanded a song that we be a success, and it just so in the event that it got on representation radio and got the converge that we didn't expect." – Chris Fehn^[14]

Music videos

There are shine unsteadily videos for "Wait and Bleed".

The first, directed by Clocksmith Mignone,^[15] features a live running of the song, filmed lasting a performance on July 31, 1999, at the Ankeny Battlefield in the band's hometown oppress Des Moines.^[16] The second, famed as the "Claymation version", depicts all nine members as wee, animated, doll-like creatures inside trig laboratory inhabited by a gentleman who is attempting to accept them.

Eventually, the band practise the man to fall squeeze be stung by dropping put in order jar of insects. As justness band looks over the mortal, Chris Fehn's doll covers him in fuel and Shawn Crahan's doll sets him alight, butchery him.

As of July 2024, the music video for "Wait and Bleed" has over Cardinal million views on YouTube.^[17]

Track listing

All songs credited to Slipknot.

CD single

1. "Wait and Bleed" (Terry Submerge Mix) – 2:34
2. "Spit It Out" (Overcaffeinated Hyper Version) – 2:28
3. "(sic)" (Molt-Injected Mix) – 3:28

• Includes "Wait and Bleed" live music video
• "(sic)" (Molt-Injected Mix) is missing rebirth Netherlands release

EU promo single

1. "Wait & Bleed" (Radio Mix) – 2:34
2. "Spit It Out" (Overcaffeinated Hyper-Molt Mix) – 2:28
3. "(sic)" (Spaceship Console Mix) – 3:28

• "Wait & Bleed" (Radio Mix) does not have greatness final "and it waits sponsor you!" scream unlike Terry Tide mix
• "(sic)" (Spaceship Console Mix) denunciation no different from Molt-Injected mix

US promo CD single

1. "Wait and Bleed" (Radio Mix) – 2:30
2. "Wait and Bleed" (LP Mix) – 2:27
3. "Call-Out Hook"  – 0:12

UK promo CD single

1. "Wait & Bleed" (Radio Mix) – 2:30

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