5: The Grey Chapter ’s interludes, but it has a definite creepiness to it. Sure, “Be Prepared For Hell” is just one of. Not a terrible song by any means, but middle ground for such a talented band.Ĩ7. The structure comes off as too hard-rock ballad to fully accommodate Clown’s percussion, and Corey’s singing is distinctly Stone Sour-ish throughout. But though the track picks up in the middle, it never feels entirely like a Slipknot song.
5: The Gray Chapter, 2014)įrom the get-go, “Goodbye” is full of the almost gothic sadness present on 2014’s. How many mix tapes featuring this song were shoved into a glove compartment soon after it came on?Ĩ8. With its slow guitars and lyrics like, “My heart is just too dark to care/You can’t destroy what isn’t there,” this one feels a little like Slipknot’s “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” or “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life),” an attempt to infiltrate the exploding emo-rock scene of the late 2000s. For just how toothy and pissed-off so much of 2008’s All Hope Is Gone is, it also contains Slipknot’s two most candied ballads, and despite its title “Snuff” is the sappier of the two. This isn’t to say it’s bad - it does lead nicely into “Nero Forte” - only that it’s not a terribly important or huge track.
It’s also on the more traditional side compared to some of Slipknot’s other shrieking, nightmarish between-song moments. “Death Because of Death” is what it is - an interlude track with electronic noise and a single repeated lyric. “Death Because of Death” ( We Are Not Your Kind, 2019) This might be fine for an interlude, but the song is over six minutes, making one question Slipknot’s motivations here.ĩ0. The Casio-style beat and melody over Corey’s clean vocals aren’t just less-than-metal, they’re also sort of aimless, leading towards a big catchy chorus that would save the track if it ever showed up. While 2019’s We Are Not Your Kind appears to be all about taking risks and playing with pop sensibilities, “My Pain” feels like it gets a little too zealous in that territory. Granted, Corey Taylor might reveal that his distorted ranting in the track actually is the deepest lyric he’s ever written for Slipknot, but we doubt it. The opening interlude of 2008’s All Hope Is Gone has interesting aspects with its swelling feedback and closing drum freak-out…but it’s very much just an interlude, an appetizer with which to make the listener hungrier for the record. In any event, it’s a fine interlude, but nothing too exciting. It’s not exactly clear what Slipknot were trying to accomplish with this interlude track from We Are Not Your Kind, but there’s not much here besides a lead into “Spiders.” This is the recurring theme of the in-between moments of the album - an attempt to connect songs with bits of melody that may not have made it onto the album otherwise. “What’s Next” ( We Are Not Your Kind, 2019) They’re fine, but don’t really add anything to the Slipknot conversation, and no one track is truly better than the others, so they land at the bottom of this list, in the same slot.ĩ3. 5: The Gray Chapter are what they say on the label - one’s silent, one’s a bunch of ambient noise with talking behind it, and one’s kind of a weird polka performance that’s pretty funny. Here’s every Slipknot song, in order of how much they throttled our world. Repeat., because the band now considers it more of a demo, and because the songs thereon were mostly recycled into material on their other studio releases. The only caveat is that we left off 1996’s Mate. Below, we’ve ranked every single Slipknot track from worst to best, right down to the between-song interludes.
Since today marks the anniversary of the band releasing their career-changing sophomore album Iowa, we decided to go all-in and do a list as massive as Slipknot itself. Plenty of bands come and go - even bands with masks and gimmicks - but these nine dues from Des Moines, Iowa, have remained relevant, interesting, and huge since they were first unleashed from America’s heartland in the late ’90s. But it’s undeniable that their mixture of theatricality, dysfunction, and loud-as-fuck extreme music has changed metal’s sound, ethos, and public image in more ways than any other artist in the genre over the last 20 years. Sure, they may not technically be the biggest, or loudest, or the most brutal. Let’s be real: Slipknot are probably the most important metal band of the past two decades.