"Bleeding Out" is a song written and recorded by American
rock
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band
Imagine Dragons for their debut studio album ''
Night Visions
''Night Visions'' is the debut studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons. It was released on September 4, 2012, through Kidinakorner and Interscope Records. The album was primarily produced by the band themselves, as well as Eng ...
'' (2012). The song appears as the ninth track on the album. The song peaked at number 30 on the ''
Billboard''
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chart.
Composition
"Bleeding Out" runs at 84
beats per minute
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. The song, compared to the former half of the ''Night Visions'' album, is one of Imagine Dragons' darker songs, and like most of the songs on ''Night Visions'', it makes use of the
Bass drum to set the overall tone and mood of the song. The song incorporates a jagged-edge production effect, where the guitar chords are separately recorded and mixed separately from the recording itself. When chords in the song are not repeated and flow through, the recording plays normally. However, if the chords repeat themselves, they literally repeat themselves in the recording as well to produce a broken record effect, as if the recording is skipping over itself. The song also makes use of
synthesizer jabs to emphasize the belligerency of the song's atmosphere and mood. Also notable is that the lead-in unusually lasts three beats, unlike most songs where usually the lead-in would last two or a single beat before the song starts.
Live performances
"Bleeding Out" was first played live during the fall of 2012. It was played on 72 shows of the
Night Visions Tour in 2013, six times on the
Into the Night Tour in 2014, and 18 times during the
Smoke + Mirrors Tour
The Smoke + Mirrors Tour was the second worldwide concert tour by American alternative rock band Imagine Dragons in support of their second studio album ''Smoke + Mirrors'' (2015). The tour had a preview show in Sydney, Australia, on March 17, ...
in 2015.
It has since been played acoustic during the
Evolve World Tour
The Evolve World Tour (stylized as ''ƎVOLVE World Tour'') was the third concert tour by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons in support of their third studio album '' Evolve'' (2017). The tour began on September 26, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona ...
.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
2012 songs
Imagine Dragons songs
Songs written by Wayne Sermon
Songs written by Dan Reynolds (musician)
Songs written by Daniel Platzman
Songs written by Ben McKee
Songs written by Alex da Kid
Songs containing the I–V-vi-IV progression
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