Make It Bleed

In our interview, Whitechapel guitarist Ben Savage said that "Make it Bleed" is one of the songs he's most proud of writing. It was formed from a few separate riffs that the band had been toying with for a long time without ever being able to piece them together into a cohesive song. However, they finally together very abruptly and spontaneously during a recording session, and "Make it Bleed" was born.

Savage also noted that the song is one of his favorites to play live, thanks to how dynamically it flows.

The song is a furious exploration of whether or not there is any meaning to life on earth when there is so much pain and suffering, and if there is any possibility of a transcendent afterlife. It also touches on weighty themes such as suicide ("This life; it's a tragedy, someone get me out, someone please help tonight; I have realized this is my last night to be alive"). It's ultimately an ambiguous, frustrated lament to the difficulty of finding meaningful things in the world.

This appears on the band's self-titled 2012 album, Whitechapel. The eponymous record saw an increased level of sophistication in the band's sound and songwriting, and was almost universally well received.