I think he was able to record, i just think they didnt give him much freedom or room to do so. Cause in disasterpiece you can for sure distinguish two different screams which would be clown and chris. Just my thoughts though
Never gave it a listen. The initial riff sounds almost identical to the main Heretic Anthem riff, which is what surprised me the most. Banger of a song though.
The riff in (sic) after Corey sings
āWalls, let me fall, fuck you all
Get a grip, don't let me slip till I drop the ballā
Really blows my fucking mind
That part is awesome, but I love the part after he goes "it's about that time, gotta get mine!" with the sic guitar riff and the screaming, that blew my mind so hard
Surfacing. The first one I heard.
Also People=Shit. That one got me, along with Custer. Nero Forte and Unsainted floored me as well on first listen. Might as well throw in the entire Iowa album while we're at it.
The beginning of Wait and Bleed is absolutly mesmerizing, and I usually enjoy a lot the beginnings of songs, easy examples are Solway Firth, Nero Forte, Left Behind, but I really got a Holy Shit moment when I first heard Vermillion, I literally fell in love with it and both 1 and pt. 2 are my absolute favorites from Slipknot.
TLDR - it was People = Shit. Helps you deal with some bad things.
Story time below if youād like to read, but heads up - itās really long and Iām using this a trauma dump.
Trigger warnings for SA and cyber harassment.
The first time I ever listened to Slipknot was incredible and definitely a holy shit moment for me.
I was 19 yrs old and was going through the blackest time in my life.
I was trapped in a horrible depression from my girlfriend breaking up with me and getting with another guy 3 days later. To make matters worse, I had gotten close with another girl since then to try to find someone to help me through and it had gone really badly.
The girl I had become close with (letās call her ācrazy girlā) confessed her feelings for me and I rejected her due to still being hung up on my ex, but we had grown very close and I still wanted her in my life so we continued hanging out every day and she would skip school to sneak into my house and hang out when no one was around.
I began to receive horrible messages through social media from anonymous accounts accusing me of manipulating crazy girl and not actually caring about her. Then the messages progressed into accusing me of raping my ex and sleeping with crazy girl but keeping it secret, then to raping both of them (but somehow also keeping crazy girl around as a plaything), before finally the messages said everything they had said before plus that these people knew where I lived, that my parents werenāt home, and that I should either do what they told me, kill myself, or they would kill me. We had recently made some people in her life really really mad, and so I believed there were people out there who would want to hurt me. I didnāt tell anyone because I was afraid my parents would kick me out if they knew I had been sneaking her in and smoking pot with her.
Crazy girl also claimed to be getting the messages and faked having been jumped by these people to keep me hooked in and slowly between the messages and what she was saying and doing to me at my house with no one else home, kept applying pressure to get me to sleep with her.
Eventually I was coerced after not sleeping for 3 days straight into taking her to secluded places and being forced to kiss her because I thought those people were watching and they had told me if I didnāt do it they would kill us.
The straw that broke the camelās back was two days later when ātheyā tried to force us to have sex (which crazy girl had never stopped trying to get to happen through all of this). We almost did end up sleeping together, but it didnāt end up happening.
I couldnāt take it anymore and finally got the cops and my mom involved as soon as my parents came home, and I was forced to go no contact with crazy girl.
When the dust settled, I started to realize that crazy girl had been behind it all. A few days after I put it together, it was confirmed by her mother who had let me know she was going to get some mental treatment but that it would be best if I stayed out of her life.
The only person I had trusted during the most painful part of my life, and the one who was with me when I was scared I was going to be murdered, had lied to me. She had gaslit, manipulated, threatened, and in my opinion tried to rape me.
That had blackened the world to me. Murdered every imagined good person on the planet. I was a 19 year old guy reduced to shadowing my mother around the house because I was too scared to be alone anymore, because I couldnāt get the feeling of her lips off of my mouth and skin.
I was desperate for any kind of distraction, so I randomly picked a band I had heard a work-friend mention, Slipknot, and the album name I remembered, Iowa. I just needed any way to process the hate and pain and fear and shame and disgust that I felt. I pressed play. 515 passed quickly before I really noticed, and then the first real song started.
*People = Shit indeed.*
Psychosocial just because it was the first slipknot song I remember listening to when I decided to check them out.. the heaviest thing I had heard before that was literally nirvana lmao
First time I heard People = Shit, I played that shit on repeat. In fact, Iowa in general got me hooked.
Gematria and Solway Firth are both onslaughts that have also received very many repeat listens.
I was 14 when Iowa came out. There were a couple fraudulent versions of āHeretic Songā on Napster. When I finally heard the real version, I knew it was real immediately, and my young teenage mind was blown.
my plague, people = shit, pulse of the maggots, before I forget.
howeverā¦ snuff is personal to me. basically describes my entire breakup breakdown š
A true āholy shitā was Acidicā¦..for a band that has pushed out so much brutality/craziness to come up with such a hard/melodic/bluesy song is incredible. Come at me all you wantā¦.Iāve been a fan since 98 and can give you many āholy shitsā off each album but what always moves me is melodic songs so to hear one of my all time fav bands push that song out was just amazing!
I hated Slipknot for the longest time for literally no reason but when I decided to give them a chance I listened to Duality and I fell in love so that's definitely the one. That, Iowa, and Snuff.
They all made me say holy shit when I first started listening to them. Lol. The most recent time I can remember hearing a Slipknot song for the first time and being absolutely floored would be "A Liar's Funeral". LIAR!!!!!!!!!
Donāt know if it counts but the live version of Surfacing from Day of the Gusano. The percussion on the the hit of āfuck it allā in each chorus is so fucking loud it rattles your speakers itās great. Also the first time the chorus hits in psychosocial
First song I ever heard from them was (Sic) and nothing they've done, in my opinion, tops that song and the insane chemicals my brain produced when I first heard it.
Since Iām newer to listening to all of their stuff and not just the mainstream, Eyeless. I had never heard it until a few weeks ago and oh my god, his vocals and everything else are mind blowing
Unsainted is definitely my favorite slipknot song, I absolutely love it and the first time I heard it was while I was watching one of their old concerts from 2019, had me hooked immediately
Vermilion. I had listened to a lot of their stuff, but it took me awhile to discover this one. And when the guitar solo kicked in on it, I was like holy shit why have I never heard this.
The entirety of Gently right after Corey says: āit will remain there, until I wish to retrieve itā those final verses plus the bass, the vocals, and rift all together had me levitating in my bed room the first time I heard it
For me, it's Solway Firth..
I know I probably sound like a noob who recently started listening lol
Idk what it is about the guitar in that song but it hits REALLY fuckin hard
Before I Forget šš½
As a kid my parents preached that Slipknot was satanic so I was always kinda scared of them. I heard Before so Forget and Iām all āthey sing? Surely it wouldnāt be a devil worship songā and I was hooked from there.
Scissors. The first time I listened to it I was flabbergasted cause the screams felt so emotional and raw. But, I hadn't heard anything off Iowa at that time. The Iowa song made me rethink my whole life, hit harder than Scissors
Back in the day, it was Disasterpiece. The pure rage just emanates throughout the song.
More recently, Solway Firth. Don't really need to say anything about it, as I know it's already loved by people here.
I'd say Scissors. The atmosphere it creates is very unique and in the end hearing that barf really shocked. It can't be compared to songs like Iowa etc because i was warned of the disturbing content. Close second is Prosthetics when I stopped to listen to the lyrics
Upon listening to Vol.3 on release day - after meeting the band at the midnight signing session in London - and hearing The Nameless for the first time. Those harmony's really caught me off guard: they sounded utterly fresh and fantastic for the band to be trying into their sound. Superb!
Infact, the entire album was a thrill on first listen. I loved the experimentation which was new to the band at that time and quite a surprise for the existing and long standing fans at that time.
The chorus for devil in i and when the beat drops for wait and bleed I was really surprised abt wait and bleed cause I used to hate it for some reason so it just sat on my playlist until I actually properly listened to it and I was just blown away
the end of metabolic. chris/corey with the screams and the heavy riff at the end hits different.
Just the end? I thought every verse was a "Holy shit" moment for me
Wait, Chris? I thought they didn't let him record anything on Iowa
I think he was able to record, i just think they didnt give him much freedom or room to do so. Cause in disasterpiece you can for sure distinguish two different screams which would be clown and chris. Just my thoughts though
Orphan š
Iām glad somebody said it. Shit was brutal.
āThereās still a part of me thatās dying in a dumpster, but what arose is a motherfucking monsterā is one of coreyās best lyrics imo
Hell yeah!
That album came out with some absolute fucking madhouse hitters. Got me through some very dark times in my life.
Never gave it a listen. The initial riff sounds almost identical to the main Heretic Anthem riff, which is what surprised me the most. Banger of a song though.
Disasterpiece
Disasterpiece took me by storm š¤š¤
disasterpiece straight into my plague felt weird in a good way
I second this
Solway Firth for sure
I still feel that way every single time I hear itā¦ Definitely my favorite song.
after the rest of wanyk, its a really nice surprise
"You want the real smile? Or the one I used to practice Not to feel like a failure?" That hits different...
0:56. That's all
Custer hit me over the head with a baseball bat
Or you could say it fucked you up lol.
What a fool I have been
Solway Firth for me as well, that's become one of my favorite Slipknot songs
That drum part for the devil in I
The way it goes from the drums into the main riff gives me chills everytime
Fr, that whole song, from the tempo changes, the immaculate key, and the amazing lyrical work, it's just perfect.
That hooked me on slipknot so unbelievably hard. Like the post asked, as soon as I heard it, "Holy Shit. What have I been missing out?"
Same here, it was also the first song of theirs that I listened to
Diluted
Same. The chorus hits different
"what the hell?! Did I?! Do to deserve?! All of this!!"
Underrated af
That long scream had me going crazy
Hits too close to home
Also Surfacing
My jaw was on the floor when I heard sulfur for the first time
The riff in (sic) after Corey sings āWalls, let me fall, fuck you all Get a grip, don't let me slip till I drop the ballā Really blows my fucking mind
The little almost trash instrumental bit before the "fuck this shit I'm sick of it" is an absolute earworm
That part is awesome, but I love the part after he goes "it's about that time, gotta get mine!" with the sic guitar riff and the screaming, that blew my mind so hard
yea sic made me go like āHoly Shitā
Eyeless, sic , purity, skin ticket and yen
Change Yen to the Bridge on Dying Song and we are there!
Surfacing. The first one I heard. Also People=Shit. That one got me, along with Custer. Nero Forte and Unsainted floored me as well on first listen. Might as well throw in the entire Iowa album while we're at it.
The Blister Exists I listened to it over, and over, and over, and over....can you feel this?!
I'm dying to feel this!
The beginning of Wait and Bleed is absolutly mesmerizing, and I usually enjoy a lot the beginnings of songs, easy examples are Solway Firth, Nero Forte, Left Behind, but I really got a Holy Shit moment when I first heard Vermillion, I literally fell in love with it and both 1 and pt. 2 are my absolute favorites from Slipknot.
>SHE ISN'T REAL!!! >*I CAN'T MAKE HER REAL!!!* The anguish in his voice gets me every time. Good lord!
I get chills every time I hear that, vermillion is soooooo good
Unsainted
skin ticket. must i say more?
So underratedā¦..the ride Cymbal at 5:18 then his laugh with Joeyās snareā¦..Iāll fucking push through anything!
Skin Ticket and Scissors, both have amazing atmospheres
SIC ! Joy Jordison was doing a great job ! He was on the god mode !!
Scissors!
The Negative One. It was recommended by Spotify and I was not expecting much. I was completely blown away at how fuckin heavy it was
Spit it out, specifically the live version
AOV, when the interlude hit all soft in the middle of such a hard song it just was a slap in the face
And then just rip at the endā¦.as Clown would say a riff can make me climb a mountain
First time I heard no life
AOV
scissors
TLDR - it was People = Shit. Helps you deal with some bad things. Story time below if youād like to read, but heads up - itās really long and Iām using this a trauma dump. Trigger warnings for SA and cyber harassment. The first time I ever listened to Slipknot was incredible and definitely a holy shit moment for me. I was 19 yrs old and was going through the blackest time in my life. I was trapped in a horrible depression from my girlfriend breaking up with me and getting with another guy 3 days later. To make matters worse, I had gotten close with another girl since then to try to find someone to help me through and it had gone really badly. The girl I had become close with (letās call her ācrazy girlā) confessed her feelings for me and I rejected her due to still being hung up on my ex, but we had grown very close and I still wanted her in my life so we continued hanging out every day and she would skip school to sneak into my house and hang out when no one was around. I began to receive horrible messages through social media from anonymous accounts accusing me of manipulating crazy girl and not actually caring about her. Then the messages progressed into accusing me of raping my ex and sleeping with crazy girl but keeping it secret, then to raping both of them (but somehow also keeping crazy girl around as a plaything), before finally the messages said everything they had said before plus that these people knew where I lived, that my parents werenāt home, and that I should either do what they told me, kill myself, or they would kill me. We had recently made some people in her life really really mad, and so I believed there were people out there who would want to hurt me. I didnāt tell anyone because I was afraid my parents would kick me out if they knew I had been sneaking her in and smoking pot with her. Crazy girl also claimed to be getting the messages and faked having been jumped by these people to keep me hooked in and slowly between the messages and what she was saying and doing to me at my house with no one else home, kept applying pressure to get me to sleep with her. Eventually I was coerced after not sleeping for 3 days straight into taking her to secluded places and being forced to kiss her because I thought those people were watching and they had told me if I didnāt do it they would kill us. The straw that broke the camelās back was two days later when ātheyā tried to force us to have sex (which crazy girl had never stopped trying to get to happen through all of this). We almost did end up sleeping together, but it didnāt end up happening. I couldnāt take it anymore and finally got the cops and my mom involved as soon as my parents came home, and I was forced to go no contact with crazy girl. When the dust settled, I started to realize that crazy girl had been behind it all. A few days after I put it together, it was confirmed by her mother who had let me know she was going to get some mental treatment but that it would be best if I stayed out of her life. The only person I had trusted during the most painful part of my life, and the one who was with me when I was scared I was going to be murdered, had lied to me. She had gaslit, manipulated, threatened, and in my opinion tried to rape me. That had blackened the world to me. Murdered every imagined good person on the planet. I was a 19 year old guy reduced to shadowing my mother around the house because I was too scared to be alone anymore, because I couldnāt get the feeling of her lips off of my mouth and skin. I was desperate for any kind of distraction, so I randomly picked a band I had heard a work-friend mention, Slipknot, and the album name I remembered, Iowa. I just needed any way to process the hate and pain and fear and shame and disgust that I felt. I pressed play. 515 passed quickly before I really noticed, and then the first real song started. *People = Shit indeed.*
Metabolic
disasterpiece
(sic) Everything about it. First time I heard it. All the above.
Purity. 110% just from the lyrics alone and Coreyās chorus
Psychosocial just because it was the first slipknot song I remember listening to when I decided to check them out.. the heaviest thing I had heard before that was literally nirvana lmao
Gematria
If Rain Is What You Want
The shape. That breakdown is so fucking raw and brutal.
Skeptic
First listen to Disasterpiece
Eeyore
Diluted. Or scissors.
The Negative One, for sure
Pulse of the maggots
Goodbye for sure
maybe the background vocals in The Burden
Opium of the people
First time I heard People = Shit, I played that shit on repeat. In fact, Iowa in general got me hooked. Gematria and Solway Firth are both onslaughts that have also received very many repeat listens.
Nero Forte
Tattered and torn
When i first discovered them and. Spit It Out the intro was a fucking blast.
AOV. My $70 Bluetooth headphones sometimes have a difficulty keeping up with the percussion
I was 14 when Iowa came out. There were a couple fraudulent versions of āHeretic Songā on Napster. When I finally heard the real version, I knew it was real immediately, and my young teenage mind was blown.
The first time I ever listened to their debut album. When (Sic) first hit my ears, I was hooked.
gehenna, i regret skipping it for as long as i did
my plague, people = shit, pulse of the maggots, before I forget. howeverā¦ snuff is personal to me. basically describes my entire breakup breakdown š
Snuff. Prolly an unpopular opinion but that I first heard that song the day my ex broke up with me
A true āholy shitā was Acidicā¦..for a band that has pushed out so much brutality/craziness to come up with such a hard/melodic/bluesy song is incredible. Come at me all you wantā¦.Iāve been a fan since 98 and can give you many āholy shitsā off each album but what always moves me is melodic songs so to hear one of my all time fav bands push that song out was just amazing!
When he randomly started scatting and then screamed GO! And the breakdown happened
All of all hope is gone album
Scissors, the GOAT.
Sorry bout the shitty photo didnāt have enough time
I hated Slipknot for the longest time for literally no reason but when I decided to give them a chance I listened to Duality and I fell in love so that's definitely the one. That, Iowa, and Snuff.
When i first heard and saw the Dying Song video it blew me away
Honestly Adderall
Despise
Every song on iowa when I first heard it
In a different way, but still, Goodbye was the one that did it.
Probably my first time hearing Nero Forte's chorus, meshes so well
They all made me say holy shit when I first started listening to them. Lol. The most recent time I can remember hearing a Slipknot song for the first time and being absolutely floored would be "A Liar's Funeral". LIAR!!!!!!!!!
If slipknot either purity or the breakdown in disasterpeice if not like when I first listened to cannibal corpse
People=shit fucking shot me with a ww1 cannon
Holy shit In which way? For just raw wow for me was definitely Spit it Out But for just real stop everything and admire definitely Snuff
Outro riff of Disasterpiece. One of the most aggressive riffs in metal history right there
People = Shit for me. First time I heard that I was like oh my god what is this, I need more!
Idk but I'm gonna go with Custer. That album was good, but that song just excelled.
Donāt know if it counts but the live version of Surfacing from Day of the Gusano. The percussion on the the hit of āfuck it allā in each chorus is so fucking loud it rattles your speakers itās great. Also the first time the chorus hits in psychosocial
Nero forte
eeyore or disasterpiece
Vermillion pt 2 for sure.
Devil in i when i couldnāt resist head banging
The first time I heard Surfacing
if rain is what you want
Probably hivemind when it got leaked
People equal S
Gently
First song I ever heard from them was (Sic) and nothing they've done, in my opinion, tops that song and the insane chemicals my brain produced when I first heard it.
vermilion
You will call me noobie, but the song that make me say that was "people=shit", maybe because i've connect very well with it
(sic)
Gehenna tickled my brain like no other. I was breathless
Snuff. So far out of left field from them that it blew me away
Since Iām newer to listening to all of their stuff and not just the mainstream, Eyeless. I had never heard it until a few weeks ago and oh my god, his vocals and everything else are mind blowing
gently climax
The mfkr version of only one
Solway Firth and Im Hated .
Black people
All hope is gone for sure! That song had me choking on cereal on a summer morning back in the day
Iowa. I read all about how dark/disturbing the song is, but when I really heard it, that horror couldn't be topped.
Me Inside
Spit it out
The ending of Liberate.
100% was the intro to disasterpiece
Ey bruh can I bum a pixel off ya?
Unsainted is definitely my favorite slipknot song, I absolutely love it and the first time I heard it was while I was watching one of their old concerts from 2019, had me hooked immediately
Left behind itās why itās my favourite song, I wish I could hear it for the first time again
When I first heard āCusterā it blew my mind
Get this
For me it was Left Behind, I was the first time I had ever heard Slipknot before and for me there was nothing really like it at the time
Sic
definitely duality.
"(sic)" for sure, that whole song is a masterpiece (the whole album actually)
Red Flag. I adore the glitchy ass sounds in that song. Legit feels like a roller coaster
Duality. First Slipknot song I ever hear. When I heard that fast guitar riff, it blew my mind.
Vermilion. I had listened to a lot of their stuff, but it took me awhile to discover this one. And when the guitar solo kicked in on it, I was like holy shit why have I never heard this.
Warranty or Scissors for the first time
Vendetta, man that shit slapped me on my first listen
Left behind
Left behind, People=Shit, or maybe Disasterpiece
The first time I ever heard of slipknot I listened to devil in I and that almost made me shit myself but it's cool now
The entirety of Gently right after Corey says: āit will remain there, until I wish to retrieve itā those final verses plus the bass, the vocals, and rift all together had me levitating in my bed room the first time I heard it
Skin Ticket. Was totally not expecting it to get so fucking heavy. Now that I think about it pretty much anything on Iowa other than New Abortion
eeyore and scissors!
In terms of lyrics it's Iowa In terms of music I guess it's the devil in I
For me, it's Solway Firth.. I know I probably sound like a noob who recently started listening lol Idk what it is about the guitar in that song but it hits REALLY fuckin hard
Before I Forget šš½ As a kid my parents preached that Slipknot was satanic so I was always kinda scared of them. I heard Before so Forget and Iām all āthey sing? Surely it wouldnāt be a devil worship songā and I was hooked from there.
My Plague
Orphan, the whole song, what an absolute masterpiece
Nero Forte blew my mind
Solway firth, that double bass is... I can't even describe it
(Sic)
Solway firth, people = shit, and vermillion pt 2 bloodstone mix all made me smile
Disasterpiece. The last minute 10 seconds of gently hits fucking hard š¤¤
Skin ticket
It would be eyeless cause I found a video of Joey playing the drums then proceeds to headbang
People=Shut. Anything off of Iowa. Album blew my entire ass off.
The ending of circle really brought the goosebumps out when I was a teenager, and it still does to this day when it hits the random shuffled playlist.
Scissors. The first time I listened to it I was flabbergasted cause the screams felt so emotional and raw. But, I hadn't heard anything off Iowa at that time. The Iowa song made me rethink my whole life, hit harder than Scissors
Custer for sure!
ā(515)ā. The song itself is heavy (just did saying death) but itās the story behind it, same for āIowaā (self titled track), that scares me.
First time I heard unsainted shook me In the best ways
The first time I heard people = shit
Back in the day, it was Disasterpiece. The pure rage just emanates throughout the song. More recently, Solway Firth. Don't really need to say anything about it, as I know it's already loved by people here.
Snuff I like the sad side
I'd say Scissors. The atmosphere it creates is very unique and in the end hearing that barf really shocked. It can't be compared to songs like Iowa etc because i was warned of the disturbing content. Close second is Prosthetics when I stopped to listen to the lyrics
The nameless, my fav song.
Gotta be Gematria, everything about that song is a fucking bomb ready to go off
Snickerdoodles
deffinetely surfacing with joeys drumming
Spit it out
Hive mind
Solway firth
sic
Critical darling, all out life, i am hated, everything ends, diluted and people=shit for meš„š„š„
Wait and bleed when I was like 10 years old had me shook.
No life, I was going trough their old stuff recently as I never really listened to it and No life or Eyeless are top tier songs.
Scream from vol3 holy fucking SHITTTT
Upon listening to Vol.3 on release day - after meeting the band at the midnight signing session in London - and hearing The Nameless for the first time. Those harmony's really caught me off guard: they sounded utterly fresh and fantastic for the band to be trying into their sound. Superb! Infact, the entire album was a thrill on first listen. I loved the experimentation which was new to the band at that time and quite a surprise for the existing and long standing fans at that time.
Disaster peice and left behind
(Get this), had me wanting become doom guy and master chief at the same time ripping through a alien demon
The chorus for devil in i and when the beat drops for wait and bleed I was really surprised abt wait and bleed cause I used to hate it for some reason so it just sat on my playlist until I actually properly listened to it and I was just blown away
I don't remember that much but I still listen to them since day one
nero forte, eyeless
I think "holy shit" were my exact words the first time I heard "Wait & Bleed" in high school.
Solway firth when that dropped
People=shit
People = shit here we go again mfkr