Without knowing any of the titles to slipknot songs… is that the one that opens up with “I wanna slit your throat and fck the wound?” I just started the video… I’m sure Gwarsenio mentions it too.
Understandably. Hair is the fucking worst to have to layer mask out yourself. Unless you were looking for a post 1996 james hetfield picture, which makes it a little easier
I moved back to Iowa at age 15, when MATE.FEED.KILL.REPEAT came out. Slipknot was always definitely a "we're an Iowa band, and we always want to be known as an Iowa band" kinda deal. they pretty much sound like the angry white boy nu-metal scene in the 515 at the time...only they were actually unique and interesting and they dumped every last ounce of everything they had into their live show and recordings. they were also huge champions of local music and would book just about anyone at their club. I only really liked their self-titled and parts of IOWA, but I will always respect Slipknot, because they wanted everyone to be as big as they were and wanted everyone to feel a sense of belonging. They understood the transformative/healing powers of extreme music.
It's really weird to look back and think that this was indeed on the mainstream. This album was way more brutal than their debut (which was already heavy af) and had some death metal tracks in it. It was #1 in the UK and sold millions worldwide. Sadly, it's like Gwarsenio said: a moment in time that will never repeat.
I saw them in support of this in 2001. Even though I'm not as big a fan now as I was then... It's still, without a doubt, the best live show I've ever seen.
This album got a lot of my friends to even give metal a chance, but for me, it was the turning point that got me into Lamb of God and Dimmu Borgir and a lot of heavier music in 9th grade.
9th grade for sure. Met a kid in physics class that played guitar and showed me Evergreen Terrace, Thrice, and Burnt by the Sun, among others. I think he’s in a reggae band the past few years lol
This album was game changing to me and my friends back in highschool. It made my one friend buy his drummer a double bass pedal. The first time we listened to Heretic Anthem in his guitarists basement with his band before Iowa came out we were all completely blown away like how the hell did they top the self titled album? The whole band sounds amazing on this album but obviously Joey shines on Iowa. R.I.P. There's no doubt Iowa was influential to all us chain wallet having, jnco jean loving, liberty spiked metal lovers back in 2001. This is an album that will always take me back to a more carefree and exciting time in life. And best of all it still holds up 🤘
Top 5 albums of all time. So raw. Not recorded on a grid/quantised and it pays off so well. . New abortion/the shape, hit so hard and carry the rest of the album through. It's a front to back no skips.
If you asked me in 2002 which nu-metal band would've not only survived, but continued to thrive at their level of fame and recognition, i never would've said the clown mask prison jumpsuit one
They got huge because of marketing my good man. Shawn saw the landscape changing and hit the nail on the head. He doesn't get enough credit for how smart he was in putting together the bands image and feel beyond just the music.
I think their mainstream success was a weird combination of 1) people lumping them in with nu-metal, 2) how catchy Wait and Bleed was, and 3) the novelty of "9 guys in masks". With those three feet in the door lots of people who wouldn't normally listen to something like Heretic Anthem realized what a talented group they were.
This was the first album I ever pre-ordered. That granted me a strange bumper sticker. My mom liked pointing out how expensive the liner notes would have been to make versus other albums. Their appearances on Conan were the first (and possibly only) times I felt "seen" by mainstream TV. Conan's shows in general made me feel like I made sense.
Look up the history of KISS and the KISS army, and you'll start to understand how Slipknot became popular Gene Simmons says he was inspired by comic-books and the idea of creating larger than life characters for each of the band members. Kisses music by itself is good, but it isn't a masterpiece of playing or writing by any stretch. But the makeup, the costumes, the stageshow, it all added to the experience and made what was otherwise a mediocre Rock Band a huge phenomenon. Slipknot did the same thing, which each band member wearing a mask instead of makeup that was an amplification of their own personalities. They're a band that look like comic-book character monsters playing aggressive music. They're the band your Mom loves to hate and to a 14 year old kid that doesn't feel like they fit in anywhere that's pretty appealing. Same was true for KISS, we think of their music as pretty tame now but it was all about Sex and Partying. Christian Moms hated the band and branded them Knights In Satan's Service. Gene meanwhile is actually a Jewish guy who was raised by his holocaust survivor single Mom, he's got a wife and two kids he loves to death, doesn't drink, doesn't do drugs, and is a master at marketing (and also he's a self absorbed dick but I won't go there) If Gene and Paul were 20 years old today starting KISS, they would probably be a metal band and look more like Slipknot. Image is what sells these bands, and it doesn't hurt that the music is pretty good too.
Supposedly, the reason slipknot ended up on Conan is because Max's 12 year old son would come with him to the set when they would tape. He would then proceed to hound the booking agent to book them because it was his favorite band. He gave in. That little snot nosed kid was named Jay Weinberg. Slipknot's current drummer. Full circle
This is my favorite Slipknot album by far. Funny that you mentioned White Zombie getting movie cameos in the early 90's, because Slipknot made a cameo playing I Am Hated in the 2002 remake of Rollerball. Rob Zombie also made a cameo playing music in that movie.
Much as I hate to admit it, Chris Evans (the UK presenter, not Captain America) deserves massive credit for putting Slipknot in front of Brits, giving the band its first appearance on TV over here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IBo_rmeBriU.html
Man, this is such a good episode. I've known a lot of people who put a lot of effort into not liking this album... way easier to embrace it as one of the scariest chart topping albums of all time. Like Far Beyond Driven for the noughties... but with wider appeal?
my slipknot popularity theory: they're way more melodic than most comparable hardcore and metal bands. Typically, these genres focus much more on rhythm (blast beats, breakdowns etc), but with fucking 12 musicians on stage, there's always something going on. Singing over blast beats, drum fills over guitar breakdowns, mixing over the bridge. It makes a lot more accessible to follow the through line of the whole song and jump in on the gang vocals. It's difficult to replicate because again: there's so many people on stage and nobody is trying to outplay anybody else.
Hardcore is punk after a load of punk bands turned New Wave/alt/goth/pop. The people that carried on with punk were the hard core. Think Black Flag, Misfits, Dead Kennedys. Blast beats come from extreme metal. Thrash, Black, Death, etc. Then you got metalcore when hardcore bands introduced the heavily rhythmic elements from metal. Slipknot are post-hardcore extreme metal but aren't metalcore. Semantics in music are sticky af though.
@@danielatherton1631 blast beats come from hardcore."metalcore when hardcore bands introduced the heavily rhythmic elements from meta" nah, that happened before metalcore was thing. "Slipknot are post-hardcore extreme metal" That is the stupidest nonsense i've ever heard that really let's everyone know that you don't know what you're talking about
@@chaosaintme9067 ok, I was wrong about blast beats. After furthering my understanding, I realise it comes from 70s prog. Slipknot are post-hardcore though.
It was a wild time. This album hit and so did 9/11... Young people were scared, confused and needed something else entirely. I think Slipknot was that band for a lot of us who were in high school and all of 14 or 15 years old trying to process what the fuck was going on. For a lot of folks, gravitating towards something heavier and more complex, that also carried dark visual and lyrical themes came naturally and felt necessary. I was already listening to Death Metal and Grind etc... but I loved Slipknot because I felt like they were bridging that gap between the music I loved, and the music that I was forced to hear on TV and Radio. Blast beats and death metal riffs on metal that was melodic and had radio hooks? Yeah. I felt like they were helping music become better and helping heavier bands become more accessible. Just like Pantera did with Far Beyond Driven and Great Southern Trendkill. They took heavy and managed to craft records that sell and they absolutely deserve credit.
My friend and I were obsessed with that album in high school. Leading up to the release of Iowa, we would devour any magazine that had Slipknot in it, especially Guitar World since I was learning guitar at the time. Reading how "heavy" and "brutal" that Iowa would be, while not really knowing about death metal at the time really blew my mind. And because of Slipknot, they probably primed me for black and death metal.
Most of Slipknot's music never clicked for me not matter how many times I gave it a shot, but I can confirm that there are zero reasons to not love "People = Shit." Everything works on that song.
"How can a song a sloppy and fucked up as Left Behind get nominated for a Grammy in the year 2000 but, today, Mastodon and Baroness can't even win one?!" Well, good news: Mastodon won "Best Metal Performance" for Sultan's Curse, from Emperor of Sand, in 2018. So... yeah, they have one now.
I was older so this was under my radar.. but an friend from my town became a BIG road mgr for a BIG SF based company. He told me about working with Slipknot for a short tour & said they were sh*t punky weirdos. Not until years later I found out how fully wrong he was. Joey was an amazing monster on the kit & this is great stuff
How did this happen? The old PBS piece "The Merchants of Cool" is a funny time capsule into that weird little turn of the millennium moment that nu-metal arose. Douglas Rushkoff points out that is was basically the co-option of the juggalo subculture into something that could be sold to the mainstream. Also following your hardcore assertion, has anyone ever pointed out how much the title track sound like Neurosis?
loved the slipnuts bit where they open for slipknot and it’s a 7 minute skit about them preparing for the gig and then cut to them doing the slipnuts shtick and all the slipknot fans are booing and i think throwing trash at them. good stuff
0:54 *"How did a band this weird and this aggressive become so huge?"* Allow me to attempt to enlighten to this... In 1998 the era of the Boy Band was ending. Despite their best attempts, they did not kill rock music. Metal bands could still get huge. Tool and Godsmack were being played on Rock Radio Stations all the time. Ozzfest 1999 had a MASSIVE year featuring the original lineup of Black Sabbath as the Headliner, besides some MAJOR metal bands being part of that tour. Slayer, Godsmack, Hed (p.e.), Fear Factory and Rob Zombie just to name a few. And then, in the middle of this... Nine dudes from the Capital City of Iowa all dressed looking like a bunch of Serial Killers were part of Ozzfest '99! Their first tour with Corey Taylor, by the way. And they took off. I saw Slipknot at Ozzfest, I then saw them open for Coal Chamber and five months later, Slipknot was headlining shows. Their first three years were incredible. Slipknot was heavy and weird enough to attract the metalheads, but also accessible enough to be considered a Gateway Metal Band with songs like Wait and Bleed and Left Behind being played on the radio. My favorite Slipknot song ever is on Iowa and it is the Title Track, which is an absolute journey into insanity. I also agree, People = Shit is just a fun, heavy, weird song!
I fucking lost my SHIT when Slipknot played on Conan so when they were gonna come back and play Heretic Anthem LIVE I was like "we're taping this oh my god"
Saw them in 99 or 2000, can't remember, in Cleveland Ohio at the agora and Mudvayne ws the opener. They only had the first album and it was fucking insane.
I was just telling someone recently that if Slipknot had released their first album a year or so later, like after Napster, they wouldn't have been so successful. Right time, right place.
You can only say this album has Slipknot's "weirdest" songs if you ignore Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat., the totally batshit self-released album with a different vocalist that they want people to forget about. That record has a goddamn RHCP-sounding funk-rap song
it's no secret that nu metal is metal's version of HxC, and ever since nu metal emerged, beatdown hardcore (for instance Trapped Under Ice, Expire, Knocked Loose) has been heavily influenced by riffs from bands like Manson, Mudvayne, and Static X, and there's bands right on the border between the two genres, like Kittie and Hatebreed...but Slipknot is one of the last nu metal bands i'd associate with hardcore, considering all the clean melodic vocals, and kind of long songs...but to be fair, i haven't watched the other video yet. and you brought up People = Shit, but didn't mention the way that links them to the punk scene, being a clear reference to Dystopia's Human = Garbage
Corey has good taste in music. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he was a huge Dystopia fan. Both are the reigning kings of pessimistic, negative, whiney, brutally dissonant metal. I say this with love.
@@josefk.122 it hurts my heart a bit to see Dystopia referred to as metal, but other than that, yeah, i never had any doubt that the similarity in the titles was intentional
@@seratoxin3825 that was the easiest category to lump them into, but yeah, they basically are their own genre. Nobody sounds like them except themselves.
Far Beyond Driven went #1 in 1994, knocking Ace of Base out of the top spot. Slipknot is arguably more listenable than that, if you consider it from a danceable rhythms instead of a catchy riff perspective.
I watched this episode and I thought the slip nuts skit was amazing and the fact that they allowed them to come out and perform before they're set was even better in front of probably 5,000 people
People = Shit has an intro like "let's take it from the top but THIS time we'll scream - nah, keep it rolling we'll go again but try the kazoo". It's 5 or 6 intros and it's great
How dare you speak ill of the masterpiece that is Left Behind. After the first album the bangers did get less consistent and there's been less and less of them on each subsequent album, but I still think the few songs that do go hard are every bit as awesome as those on their first album. Psychosocial, Duality, Before I Forget, and yes Left Behind are all solid 10s if you're into the heavy stuff. Top tier Audio Viagra. Also FWIW I love you. Not quite romantically, but I'd be lying to us both if I said it wasn't a little more than a platonic thing.
The reason slipknot got so big? Joey F⭐cking Jorgensen!!!, and they wasn't whining about depressing crap, making everyone else depressed. And they kicked everyone's ass at ozzfest, multiple years!
Not sure why, but all the cool kids defending Slipknot and saying if you don't like them you're an elitist is getting really played out. They're trying SO hard to not be gatekeeping (like they all probably were back in the day) that they're becoming what they criticize. Slipknot just isn't for me, they come off as super forced and angry just for angers sake, and even though the music is usually cool, it is super affected and just takes me out of it. Guess Gwarsenio would call me a try-hard or something, but who's the one painting their face and making jokes that scream "Won't you please like me????"
This album pushed me away from metal/hardcore and sent me right back to loving punk. There was 1-2 songs I liked but I went back to Rancid/Nofx n did not regret it.
