“Blood On My Hands” by The Used

The Used led off their fourth album, Artwork, with "Blood on My Hands", putting it out through Reprise in June 2009 as a digital download and on a 12-inch picture disc, then sending it to radio that July. It's a hard-edged, bruising way to open a new chapter.

The song came with a grim little film. Lisa Mann, who had shot the band's "The Bird and the Worm" clip two years earlier, directed a video that premiered on MySpace and the band's own site: newspapers brand Bert an alleged killer, he paces a prison while the band plays in a room, and the story takes a dark turn before it ends with Bert hanged, a priest giving him the last rites.

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