Song · Metallica
“Bleeding Me” by Metallica
From the album Load (1996)
“Bleeding Me” by Metallica appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1997 and 2002. It was first released in 1996 on the album Load. Its best result is #4 on the WRCX Top 103 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,186 alternative song of all time.
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"Bleeding Me" comes from Metallica's 1996 album Load, and it finds James Hetfield writing about as personally as he ever had. The words came out of the stretch when he wanted to quit drinking, and a year of therapy had turned up some ugly things about himself. In a 2001 interview with Playboy he described the song as an attempt to drain the bad out of his system, the scars left over from growing up.
It was never sold as a single, but a promo CD went out to radio in 1997 and the song climbed to 6 on the US Mainstream Rock chart. Hetfield and Kirk Hammett play guitar, Jason Newsted bass and Lars Ulrich drums, and Bob Rock produced it with Hetfield and Ulrich before Randy Staub mixed it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 4 | WRCX Rock 103.5 Chicago, IL | WRCX Top 103 Songs of 1997 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 466 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 2002 | 416 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
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