Wait and Bleed
Wait and Bleed is a song by American nu metal band Slipknot. It was coupled out on 28 July 1999 as the first single from the eponymous debut album.
Music Video
There are two music videos to Wait and Bleed. The first music video was filmed under the direction of Thomas Mignore and is about a minute longer than the album version. At the beginning you can see how a man falls a tree and puts him in his workshop. Inside were flies and maggots, with whom he apparently wants to perform experiments and therefore puts them in jars. The members of Slipknot are shown as rag dolls. Bassist Paul Gray is being held by him and planted a grub, which he obviously new lease of life. Also, singer Corey Taylor is locked in a cage, but may be released later. The other members penetrate unnoticed into the building to obviously to launch a rescue operation. So coming drummer Joey Jordison example through the manhole cover. The man is struck at once by something in the face and can thereby fall a glass full of flies. The glass breaks, which leads to that the numerous insects flying around in space. Distracted, guitarist Mick Thomson comes up to him and pulls him on the leg, which he loses his balance and falls. Slipknot gather around the terrified man. Previously, drummer Chris Fehn, however, has placed a Bezinspur to which he is eventually dropped. In the end it looks like the drummer Shawn Crahan other petrol track with a Bunsen burner antsteckt. Consequently, it is the man burned alive, but what remains unclear, since at this point the video ends.
The second video shows the band as it plays the song at a concert.
Reception and Other
The song was nominated in 2001 at the 43rd Grammys in the Best Metal Performance category. It was the first time that the band received such a nomination. Ultimately, however, the award went to the Deftones song for the elite. In the Kerrang! Awards won Wait and Bleed 2000, the award for best single. Furthermore, the song made it to # 27 in the UK singles chart. VH1 chose Wait and Bleed on place 36 of the 40 greatest metal hits. The song is also in the video game series Rock Band use. The piece is standard since its release on Slipknot concerts and was estimated 500 times played live.