Bleed

Its original title was "Aneurysm", and Haake told Songfacts the subject is an aneurysm in your head killing you, with lyrics written in a lot of metaphors. He doubted he could play the drum pattern and the song nearly missed the album; he changed his technique, leaning back and giving up some power for kick speed, and told Gravemusic it is his favorite track on obZen and needed a totally new approach to the double bass drums, which he practiced alone as much as all the other tracks together. In July 2022 he told Metal Injection's Ask the Artist, via Loudwire, that he wishes he never had to play it once in his life, but the band has to. Hagstrom called it technically demanding to play and memorize. It was never issued as a formal single.

McFarland and Pecci directed the video, based on the cover's bleeding figure; Songfacts says a plan for twelve levels of hell was cut to three when the budget shrank, and that it passed 12 million views. Rock Band offered the song as downloadable content on June 18, 2010. Rolling Stone placed it 41st on its 2023 list of the 100 greatest heavy metal songs. Setlist.fm counted it third among their most-played songs with 421 plays, behind "Future Breed Machine" (495) and "Rational Gaze" (427); counts drift. Our upload is the official music video, which uses a shorter edit. We found no covers or samples.