Slipknot aren't a band that exactly have a particularly strong reputation in the music world - they're so often dismissed as profane, incomprehensible and without a shred of musical talent. Whilst I for one am not a huge fan of the screaming/shouting style of singing, I admire their guitar work and amazing drums more than anything, and this debut album, released in 1999, is packed with numerous classic tracks, several of which are the best known that the band have ever produced. They're a very strange band indeed - there's NINE of them, and they each wear different strange masks and wear boiler suits. Although I find all of this "rage" and hatred of ...  Read the complete review

Slipknot - a band of regional artists coming together to create what would be described as extreme emotions mixed with anger, death, revenge and complete turmoil. When I first discovered slipknot, it was through a show on VH1 known as the friday rock show hosted by the late tommy vance. It was believed then that slipknot was more than just a metal band. They started to spread a message, whether it was love, hate or complete destruction, these guys had it. So anyways, on a whim i brought this album at my local underground (now closed) music store, and placed it nicely into my mates CD player. I cannot explain what was going through my head at the ...  Read the complete review

Slipknot are now the benchmark for a thousand clones. After amazing no one with little known first album 'Mate Kill Feed Repeat' Slipknot have turned out a massive second album that is the most important for Nu-Metal as the first Korn album was and is. One must think why such bands as MUDVAYNE have copied Slipknot's image and to some extent, their sound although Shaun 'The Clown' Crahan executivly produced MUDVAYNE's 'LD50' opus. The proof is contained within this album. Under the guidance of big shot producer Ross Robinson, who produced metal masterpieces 'Korn' by Korn, Amen with 'We have come for your parents' ...  Read the complete review

Slipknot are very much frowned upon by society, which is a bit foolish, in my younger days I also frowned upon Slipknot, and I will tell you why. If you walk around the local streets what you will find is kids dressed all in black, listening to heavy music, taking drugs, I admit that I linked these two things together, that if you listened to the bands that these kids on their tops you would turn into them, wrong. I recently came into possession of this album, and have been gradually falling into this type of music for quite a long time, it is now that I can say that the band are really good, and this album is put together really well. ‘But ...  Read the complete review

Lets face it the "18 legged hate machine" is probably the only group in history with less talent than steps. Slipknot is an over-rated very hyped up group. I see so many people now wearing slipknot stuff or claiming they like the music. Many of the people I know are into metal (including me, but I like a wide variety of music) and have been for a long time - they all dislike Slipknot. No amount of gimmicks, is going to hide the fact that they are, in essence, talentless. The music simply demonstrates their ability to get the worst possible sound out of a guitar, out of drums, well out of anything really. Personally I think they ...  Read the complete review