Bleed Electric: Gravity (Official Music Video)

Artist
Bleed ElectricMUG5, Silk, Siege
Track
Gravity03 of Let The Invasion Begin
Runtime
4:00
Premiere
13 June 2026YouTube
Direction
MUG5RIOT
Woman in flowing blue robes skateboarding down a desert highway in the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
  1. 0:00Departures
  2. 0:37The vessels
  3. 1:13Orbit
  4. 2:13Weightless
  5. 2:59Together
  6. 3:47The reveal

The atlas

Four minutes. Sixteen worlds.

Every world we built for the film, in order of appearance. Tap a timecode and the film above jumps straight to it.

  1. A veiled figure in indigo sits in a room filled with sand dunes, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W010:01

    Sand Room

  2. A figure in red stands at a misty cliff edge above a field of poppies, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W020:05

    Poppy Cliff

  3. A figure under a flowing red veil moves through a dark jungle, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W030:11

    Red Jungle

  4. A spacecraft rests beside giant water-filled craters on Mars, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W040:19

    Mars Craters

  5. A woman walks alone across a mirrored blue salt flat, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W050:33

    Salt Flat

  6. A woman in blue robes skateboards down a desert highway, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W060:43

    Desert Highway

  7. A teal subway train blurs past, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W070:47

    Subway

  8. A rocket fires its engines in low orbit above Earth, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W081:13

    Low Orbit

  9. A woman in white cycles along a beach past a coastal mosque as gulls fly, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W091:19

    Coastal Mosque

  10. A woman stands by a parked car beneath electricity pylons at blue hour, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W101:49

    Pylon Night

  11. A woman on a BMX rides through a square filled with pigeons, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W112:01

    Pigeon Square

  12. A woman floats weightless against a pale sky, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W122:13

    Zero Gravity

  13. A UFO beams light onto a road beside a truck at night, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W132:25

    Roadside Encounter

  14. A woman stands inside a brass elevator in the middle of a wheat field, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W142:35

    Wheat Field Elevator

  15. A woman in an embroidered headdress beside a golden eagle by the sea, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W152:45

    Eagle Shore

  16. An astronaut drifts toward a glowing black hole, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
    W163:13

    Event Horizon

“Gravity” is about the invisible force that keeps you in place. Our film is about the exact moment it breaks.

Of everything Bleed Electric has made, “Gravity” is the most pop-forward: bright, melodic, built to stick. It is also a goodbye. The hook says it plainly, “I’m leaving ’cause you’re gravity, and gravity ain’t holding me down.” As our founder MUG5 told Mundane, the song “smiles while it cuts the cord.”

MUG5 has been trying to make the Gravity music video for fourteen years. On 13 June 2026 it finally flew: a four-minute escape across sixteen worlds, built at RIOT from live action, CGI and AI imagery, with a message most people only catch on the way out.

A woman floats weightless against a pale blue sky in the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
2:13 · Weightless.

The video we lost in 2012

The first attempt predates RIOT itself. In late 2011 Silk and Siege filmed their parts on phones in Wales while MUG5 shot his in California, the day before a UFC main event, wandering the streets for a couple of hours with Rick Lee. The edit came together in Adobe Premiere, and just as it was ready to export, the project corrupted. The video never came out, and soon the music vanished from streaming too. For more than a decade Bleed Electric survived only as memory and rumor, while MUG5 built RIOT and RIOT built the skills, the toolset and the talent this film would one day need.

Fourteen years, one flight

Gravity ain't holding me down

  1. Bleed Electric in 2010: MUG5, Silk and Siege in pink and blue light2010The songGravity is finished: a pop song about leaving.
  2. MUG5 silhouetted against storm clouds, California 20112011The first shootSilk and Siege film on phones in Wales. MUG5 shoots in California.
  3. A corrupted, glitching frame of MUG5 from the lost 2011 Gravity edit2012LostThe Premiere project corrupts just before export. The video never comes out.
  4. Original 2013 Let The Invasion Begin EP cover designed by MUG5: a skeleton king in a space helmet on a throne beneath a ringed planet2013The EPLet The Invasion Begin is released on 26 February, then vanishes from streaming.
  5. Let The Invasion Begin EP cover by RIOT: a vast craft glowing over a city lit redFeb 2026The returnThe EP comes back on 26 February, thirteen years to the day.
  6. Woman in flowing blue robes skateboarding down a desert highway in the Bleed Electric Gravity music videoJun 2026Lift-offThe Gravity film premieres on 13 June.
A veiled figure in indigo sits in a room filled with sand dunes, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
0:01 · A room swallowed by sand.

Stillness, then motion

We open the film on stillness. A figure draped in indigo sits in a room swallowed by sand. Another stands at the edge of a cliff in a field of poppies. A red veil drifts through a jungle.

Then everything starts to move. People from different cultures and realities choose motion over stillness: down desert highways and terraced streets, through subway cars and pigeon-filled squares, past a mosque on the coast, into orbit and out toward an event horizon. Some departures are grounded and human. Others turn mythic. We built that scale on purpose. Leaving is not always physical. Sometimes it feels as impossible as escaping the atmosphere.

A woman in a red and gold robe rides a motorbike along a seafront with two black dogs, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
3:05 · Riding out, with company.

The World We Built

“Gravity” is a hybrid film. MUG5 directed, cut and graded live-action footage, CGI environments and AI-generated imagery into one continuous world, so a skater on a terraced street and a traveller crossing Mars feel like part of the same story. We let the film move between eras on purpose: grainy, sun-blown street photography sits right next to clean orbital CGI.

The craft is in the sequencing. Each cut hands the escape from one traveller to the next, so the film plays as a single journey even though almost no two shots share a world. Color does the same work, holding sixteen places together. We sampled the palette below straight from the frames.

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Arc#60D6F7
Robe#4180A6
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Horizon#E5A159
Gravity, sampled from the film

Vessels of freedom

We cast the skateboard, the BMX, the motorbike and the horse as vessels, never as spectacle. They stand for velocity in places where stillness was expected, and for choice where choice was denied. Riders skate on rooftops, pull wheelies through concrete underpasses and ride the seafront with dogs at their heels.

A woman in a white niqab holds a glittering skateboard, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video0:38
A woman in sequinned robes skateboards through night traffic, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video1:07
A woman in a metallic headscarf launches a skateboard ollie against a blue sky, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video1:11
A woman in a veil skates down a terraced street at golden hour, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video1:51
Two veiled women pose with a BMX and a skateboard against a rock wall, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video2:43
A woman in calligraphy-print robes skates across a rooftop with arms outstretched, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video2:55
A woman pulls a BMX wheelie through a concrete underpass, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video3:03
A woman in a red and gold robe rides a motorbike along a seafront with two black dogs, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video3:05
A crew of women in abayas stand with their bikes on city steps, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video3:17
A woman gallops a horse across the desert at sunset, from the Bleed Electric Gravity music video3:23
The vessels: skateboard, BMX, motorbike, horse. Scroll sideways.
Gravity only wins when you stop trying to fly.
Bleed Electric · Gravity

Every story was hers

The film gives up its truth slowly, and we designed it that way. By the final frames you realize every story you have watched belongs to a woman. The astronaut who closes the film is the same story told one last time, at the edge of space.

What reads at first as a universal escape becomes something more pointed and more urgent: a tribute to women finding the strength to leave situations that are dangerous, oppressive, suffocating, or simply no longer survivable.

3:47 · The last traveller.
A female astronaut in a gold-lit helmet at the close of the Bleed Electric Gravity music video
Let The Invasion Begin EP cover by RIOT: a vast craft glowing over a city lit red

The record

Let The Invasion Begin

EP · 6 tracks · 26.02.13 / 26.02.26

“Gravity” is track three on Let The Invasion Begin, the EP that returned on 26 February 2026, thirteen years to the day after its first release. The film is one piece of that larger world, and the EP gets its own story soon.

Bleed Electric's first official physical release, now on vinyl.

01Trinity
02Cry Little Sister
03 · This filmGravity
04Boost Your 1s
05Cherry Bomb
06Eight Years Late For Dinner

Heard in the press

An essential voice in the modern music scene.
Indie Spirits5 Mar 2026Read the piece
Indie Spirits review of Bleed Electric Gravity
Gripping, stylized visuals that blend live action with CGI and AI.
Word Is Bond24 Jun 2026Read the piece
Word Is BondBleed Electric introduces us to Gravity
There are bands. And then there are systems.
Mundane25 Feb 2026Read the piece
Mundane magazine feature headline: Bleed Electric doesn't come back, it reappears
A multimedia guerilla campaign fueled by mystery.
Magnet4 Dec 2025 · on This Is My MasterpieceRead the piece
Magnet magazine exclusive premiere of Bleed Electric's This Is My Masterpiece video

What comes next

Bleed Electric’s reverse transmission is not finished. Every release takes Bleed Electric one step closer to its origin, and the road ends where it started: The Butterfly Effect, the album conceived as a film, which the band is aiming to release as a full visual work in 2027. We intend to build that one too.

Until then, “Gravity” is the clearest statement of what this project is. A pop song with a knife in it. A film about leaving, made by the people who almost left it behind.

Credits

Bleed Electric
MUG5 · Silk · Siege
Directed by
MUG5
Edit + Color
MUG5
Post Production
RIOT

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