"Bleed It Out" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. The song was released as the second single from their third studio album, Minutes to Midnight. The single was released on August 17, 2007.
On July 30, 2007, the music video was shown on MTV Germany and MTV Asia and has premiered in Canada through the Muchmusic Countdown and their MuchAxs video streaming website. This song was #44 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. This song was also #83 on MTV Asias list of Top 100 Hits of 2007.
The song is featured in the closing video package in Game 3 of the 2007 World Series, and in the main setlist for the rhythm video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.
Live performances
"Bleed It Out" was first performed live during the show at Webster Hall in New York City on May 11, 2007. Other notable live performances of the song include when it was performed in Tokyo on July 7, 2007, and broadcast as part of Live Earth, The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis, as well as when it was performed on the May 12, 2007, episode of Saturday Night Live.
Music video
The song's music video was directed by Joe Hahn and premiered on July 31, 2007, on MTV Germany. The music video was premiered in the United States on August 6, 2007, all day long on MTV2's "Unleashed". It also had a premiere on TRL the same day as MTV2's "Unleashed". It debuted at number 27 on the Muchmusic Countdown on August 3. Although "Leave Out All The Rest" (the track before it) features footsteps and an opening door that segues into "Bleed It Out", it was omitted for the music video. The video was filmed and then reversed (in what appears to be one continuous shot), although green screens were used to make it look like the band was still playing regularly. The video features a reversed bar fight, and at the end of the video, it is revealed that a person vomited on another person's shoe, which started the massive fight.
The video was named Muchmusic's #1 Rock video of 2007 during their annual Holiday Wrap specialty program series. Also, at the 2008 MuchMusic Video Awards, "Bleed It Out" won for Best International Video – Group.
Warner Bros. Records released a live video of "Bleed it Out" exclusively on their YouTube channel. The live video was shot in Japan on July 7, 2007, when Linkin Park was performing during the Live Earth concert. The Warner Records version censors "fuck" and "noose". However, other users have uploaded the same performance but some may have been captured from networks like NBC and MSN, which may have the lyrics uncensored.
As of February 2023, the music video for "Bleed It Out" has over 135 million views on YouTube.
Live performances
"Bleed It Out" includes a slow chorus breakdown at the end, and Rob Bourdon's extended drum solo.
For the 2010 A Thousand Suns World Tour, it was originally performed between "Crawling" and "One Step Closer" as the second-to-last number of the main set for the South American leg. It was moved to the encore as the final number for the European leg of the tour. On their recent EMA's performance, they played the song with "A Place for My Head" mixed into the end. This song was played with "Burning in the Skies" in the same tour in some dates.
In Living Things World Tour, the band plays two verses from Beastie Boys Sabotage in memory of Beastie Boys bassist MCA who died in 2012.
During Linkin Park's "Concert For The Philippines" in January 2014, the song was performed featuring a drum solo from Travis Barker.
On June 22, 2014, at the Vans Warped Tour in Ventura, CA, Linkin Park performed the song with rapper Machine Gun Kelly who came up with a third verse taken from his song "What I Do".