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Official music video for “Stop The Bleeding“ featuring Jesse Leach (Killswitch Engage) from the 2-song digital single, Civil Unrest, out now via Nuclear Blast. Listen at Subscribe to Machine Head YouTube: Subscribe to Nuclear Blast YouTube: LISTEN ON Spotify: Apple Music: Deezer: YouTube Music: TIDAL: Pandora: DOWNLOAD ON iTunes: Amazon Music: Google Play: VIDEO CREDITS Oakland Crew: Mike Sloat (Camera, Director, Editor) Jason Pedri NY Crew: David Brodsky Allison Woest FOLLOW MACHINE HEAD: Website: FB: IG: TW: YT: On Tour: --- MACHINE HEAD - “STOP THE BLEEDING“ (FEAT. JESSE LEACH) LYRICS The endless scroll of human tragedy I swipe along as the days go by Another brother murdered out in the streets I connect to the shame, we don’t know what it’s like Born lucky cause the color of skin America your heart is caving in Somehow I thought this was the land of the free Where is our humanity? Our humanity Beating after beating Throat choked under knee Help me please Because I can’t breathe Just stop the bleeding Body after body Piled up in the streets Stand and fight Not another life Just stop the bleeding And some will claim it’s a conspiracy The fake news out to undermine When riots fight off white supremacy Never given a choice, so they’re drawing a line I stare and look out at the world in disgust These men are dying over nothing just Good men stand up and show your bravery For a lost democracy Our democracy Beating after beating Throat choked under knee Help me please Because I can’t breathe Just stop the bleeding Body after body Piled up in the streets Stand and fight Not another life Just stop the bleeding Our strife Our struggle Fight through these open wounds Beating after beating Throat choked under knee Help me please Because I can’t breathe Just stop the bleeding Body after body Piled up in the streets Stand and fight Not another life Just stop the bleeding now Our strife Our struggle Fight through these open wounds --- Vocalist / guitarist Robb Flynn shares the inspiration behind the release, “I wrote and sang the lyrics on Wednesday May 27th, 2020, the day that the four officers who murdered George Floyd were (originally) not charged with anything. This day was engulfed in protests and riots across America. I drove into Oakland, past large demonstrations already happening and, in a fury, wrote down everything I was feeling after watching the horrific footage. Within hours, what I wanted to say, what I needed to say had been recorded in the song.” “I decided to sing it over a song called ‘Stop The Bleeding’, that we had recorded back in December 2018 with Jared [MacEachearn, MACHINE HEAD bass guitar] and Carlos Cruz [WARBRINGER] on drums. ‘Stop The Bleeding’ features a guest appearance from KILLSWITCH ENGAGE frontman, Jesse Leach, seeing Flynn and Leach trading lyrical lines that spit anger and frustration at current events. Flynn continues, “I had been speaking with Jesse for maybe 6 months about singing on the song, as it always had a little bit of a Killswitch vibe to me. Unfortunately (or fortunately), our schedules hadn’t lined up, but with the subsequent lockdown from coronavirus, we had time to make it work. After what happened to George Floyd, I sent him the lyrics I’d written, and he replied saying he was “100% on board”. Jesse is someone I consider to be a pioneer and, in many ways, one of the men who changed the face of metal. His contribution to this song made it extremely powerful and it’s an honor to have him be a part of it.” MACHINE HEAD are donating a significant portion of their streaming proceeds from ‘Stop The Bleeding’ to , the organization representing George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. The B-side, ‘Bulletproof’ is a new song, also recorded with Carlos and Jared back in December 2018. Flynn adds, “The lyrics for ‘Bulletproof’ were finished in the aftermath of not only the Ahmaud Arbery murder at the hands of white supremacist, but everything twisting out of control in our World. The isolation and craziness of the pandemic, the lockdown protesters storming government buildings with AR-15‘s, as well as the blatant lies and conspiracies pouring out of our political leaders’ mouths, hour by hour, day after day.”
