Bleed
Bleed
May 2, 2025News updates for 'Bleed' by Bleed
Dallas heavy alt/metal band Bleed announce self titled debut LP and drop latest single "Marathon"
Dallas alternative metal/rock Bleed have announced their long awaited self-titled 10 track debut LP, set for release on May 2nd via Buck Spin. They have also released their lead off single "Marathon" with an official video that can be streamed below. Combining elements of 90s and early 2000s alt rock, grunge, metal and shoegaze, Bleed's music balances gauzy distortion and tight song structures, evoking themes of internal struggle and desperation. The music is heavy and you can hear how bands like Alice in Chains, Helmet, and Deftones have inspirited their sound. Bleed are sure to stand out with the rest of this new crop of bands pulling from this era of music, as fans of Soul Blind, Narrow Head, Split Chain, Trauma Ray, ASkySoBlack, should definitely keep an eye out for this new release. Full press release below.
Dallas heavy alt-metal band Bleed have announced their debut self titled LP, set for release on May 2, 2025 via Buck Spin. For background, Bleed’s introductory EP Somebody’s Closer was initially self-released through digital platforms in 2021. Despite no physical release at the time, the EP— invoking late 90's / early 00’s era alt rock / metal— gained the Dallas, Texas-based band a lot of buzz with its gauzy distortion balancing tension and atmosphere, and via several mutual connections came to the attention of 20 Buck Spin. The label issued vinyl and cassette editions in 2022 bringing Bleed’s music to new audiences and wider attention. Since that time the anticipation for the band’s debut full length has built to fever pitch, and at long last their new album will arrive May 2, 2025.
This new album, titled Bleed, maintains the melodic heaviness and tight song structures of the band's EP, while diving headfirst into the oceanic haze, pushing their sound into territory more immersive, relentless and hypnotically lush. Guitars surge and sway in stacked waves of gravitational angst, overdriven rhythms eccentrically pulsing beneath, and guitarist / singer Ryan Hughes’s voice floating in and out, sometimes distant and detached, sometimes cracked open with desperation. Lyrics move in fragments, alluding to themes of deep internal struggle, coping mechanisms and hurting those you love most. It’s music that doesn’t so much demand attention as seeps straight into the bloodstream, the kind of album that endlessly loops in the back of the mind at 3 a.m.
Today, the album's first single "Marathon" arrives with a music video directed by Colt Matheson and can be streamed below.
Bold strides are taken right out of the gate to make the authenticity of Bleed’s universe more expansive in its inspirations and ambitions. There’s a confidence to the way Bleed lets these songs unfold, they make their impact immediate and have no need to persist longer than necessary. The result is an album that feels massive yet intimate, brutal yet beautiful, familiar yet singular. It doesn’t simply leave an impression, it lingers, reverberating long after the final notes have faded.
RIYL: Alice in Chains, Helmet, Deftones, Soul Blind, Narrow Head, Split Chain, ASkySoBlack, Trauma Ray
