"Fresh Blood" | ||||
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Single by Eels | ||||
from the album Hombre Lobo | ||||
A-side | "Fresh Blood" | |||
B-side | "Devil's Dog" | |||
Released | April 26, 2009 | |||
Recorded | 2009 | |||
Genre | Rock [1] | |||
Length | 4:23 | |||
Label | Vagrant, E Works | |||
Songwriter(s) | E | |||
Producer(s) | E, Kelley Logsdon | |||
Eels singles chronology | ||||
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My Timing Is Off | ||||
![]() Cover to the British "My Timing Is Off" single, featuring "Fresh Blood" as a B-Side |
"Fresh Blood" is a song by American rock band Eels. It was released as the first single from their 2009 album Hombre Lobo .
The song is about a werewolf who desires "fresh blood". E has described the song as a sequel to "I Want to Protect You". [2]
On March 31, 2009, the band made the track available on Spinner.com, [2] explaining that the song would be the lead single for the album.
A music video directed by Jesse Dylan premiered on April 29, 2009. [3]
A 7" single was released on May 18, 2009, in the United Kingdom featuring the album track "My Timing Is Off" as an A-side backed with "Fresh Blood". [4] Both singles were made available on the iTunes Store.
The song was featured in the sixth-season episode "Legacy" of the TV series Rescue Me and the end credits of the third-season episode "Fresh Blood" of the series True Blood . The song was also featured as the opening theme for the first season of HBO's documentary series The Jinx (titled The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst) and recently as the opening and closing theme to Amazon's Original series Sneaky Pete . "Bone Dry" from the 2018 album The Deconstruction was written as a sequel to this song. [5]
All songs written by E