Sure, the album is pure Slipknot – raw aggression, percussive assault and well-crafted melodies – just like The Gray Chapter. With We Are Not Your Kind, however, Slipknot have done more than play to their strengths, they’ve broadly expanded their parameters, taking the band in musical directions that they’ve previously only hinted at. In fact, the formula spawned some killer songs, including “The Devil in I,” “Lech” and “The Negative One,” which earned three Grammy award nominations. The album was widely praised and proved that Slipknot were back and capable of thriving without Jordison and Gray – if they stuck to the traditional frameworks that made them metal legends – which there’s nothing wrong with. 5 The Gray Chapter, a tribute to their lost brother, Paul.Īs such, The Gray Chapter was more an album of remembrance and survival than continuation it was the band’s heaviest release since Iowa, and it contained their trademark blend of death and thrash metal, atmospheric interludes and frontman Corey Taylor’s hybrid of vocal roars, pained melodic crooning and short-sharp quasi-rap barks. By their 10th anniversary, both members were gone and Slipknot took six long years to mourn, come to terms with their situation and rebuild for 2014’s. Every longtime Slipknot fan knows that ex-drummer Joey Jordison and late bassist Paul Gray (who died May 24, 2010) were instrumental in writing the first four Slipknot albums, Slipknot (1999), Iowa (2001), Vol 3: (The Subliminal Verses) (2004) and All Hope is Gone (2008).

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