reels.grunge studio on Instagram: "“Bleed the Freak” – Alice In Chains Released in 1990 on Facelift, this was one of the songs that first pushed Alice In Chains into heavy rotation on MTV’s Headbangers Ball. It became their first track to crack the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, helping the band break nationally before grunge fully exploded. Jerry Cantrell has said the lyrics were written about feeling used and betrayed by someone close — a theme that ran through a lot of the band’s early mate