Slipknot

Lol.

Nu metal, alternative metal, groove metal.

Nine people ought to sound like a committee meeting where everybody has brought a bright idea and nobody is prepared to step back. Slipknot move like one organism. That may be the most astonishing thing about this album. Two guitars, bass, drums, two additional percussionists, DJ, samples and vocals somehow become not a crowd but a coherent wall of sound. Everyone knows when to present and when to disappear. Guitars abruptly vanish to expose a breakbeat, percussion changes the centre of gravity, Corey Taylor fires a vocal through the resulting space, and the whole structure snaps shut again before you’ve quite understood what happened. This is Stravinsky as metal. The violence is composed. The rhythmic imagination is ridiculous. Breakbeats collide with blastbeats; marches suddenly skip across themselves; accents move underneath you. Taylor’s rapping is extraordinary, sometimes moving so quickly that intelligibility isn’t the problem — comprehension simply arrives fractionally late. The music keeps getting one step ahead of conscious thought. The guitars do something I don’t remember hearing elsewhere in metal. Massed parts bend together approximately rather than perfectly, blurring the attack and destabilising the pitch centre. They feel literally elastic. At points the effect is almost seasickness: the floor appears to tilt underneath the riff. Yet underneath all this derangement are proper songs. “Wait and Bleed” is genuinely hummable. Proper hooks, proper melodic instincts. The band can write something immediately memorable and then choose to surround it with nine men dressed like metastasised folk demons. The Dead Kennedys kept coming to mind: that cartoonishly accelerated nervous system, theatrical intelligence and sense of the music grinning while it attacks you. So did Wu-Tang Clan. Slipknot have something of the collective logic of a hip-hop crew: distinct colours and functions operating inside an identity larger than any individual member. Wu-Tang crossed with Limp Bizkit and Tobe Hooper isn’t entirely ridiculous as a description. But the deeper I got into the album, the less useful genre became. Slipknot is extraordinarily bodily music. It doesn’t offer a mood and let you inhabit it. It imposes one. “Tattered & Torn” produced an unpleasantly precise childhood memory of nitrous oxide at the dentist: bloated consciousness, perception changing shape, your own noises beginning to sound alien while control disappears. Elsewhere the record feels like being trapped inside a modem, suffering amphetamine-fuelled insomnia, or experiencing that detached “Born Slippy” sensation before the music explodes into a kind of euphoria of horror. Form and function are inseparable. The lyrics concern fragmentation, rage, damaged perception, violation, loss of control and bodily unease. The arrangements don’t merely illustrate those states. They manufacture them in the listener. That makes this an extraordinarily successful record and also a difficult one to live with. Brevity becomes one of its few breathing devices. Most tracks attack, mutate and leave before the sensation becomes unbearable. Then comes “Scissors”. The album has been biding its time. For eight minutes the breathing device disappears. “Scissors” clamps on and refuses to let go. It feels like having a dog’s jaws locked around your face for eight excruciatingly brilliant minutes. I would give this five stars for execution without hesitation. It is one of the most brilliantly realised albums I’ve encountered: disciplined, imaginative, coherent and almost absurdly accomplished. But livability matters too. Four stars. Sometimes an album’s ability to do exactly what it intends is also the reason you may not want it doing that to you very often.

Low 2 for me. I can't endure this type of vocals for a whole album, and the breaks from it are too few and far between.

I lost love for this as it went on. Not my style in truth - albeit the drums are great. High 2

Slipknot’s whole image is designed to drive a wedge between worried parents and enthusiastic teenagers. I can only imagine the number of confiscated CDs. But it’s a lot of fun! They’re music is all about manic extremes and pushing boundaries. It has an entertaining anti-establishment attitude that is designed to be played LOUD. I’m a guest in these quarters, so feel free to dismiss my inexpert perspective, but to my ears Slipknot is miles better than the likes of Faith No More and Korn.

Slipknot is a solid 4, a couple of duds but a full albums worth of some of the best nu-metal out there and an evergreen teenage angst album

A really good band with a high floor with their songs for me. I enjoy most of them when they come on and then there are the songs that really stick out and I can listen to over and over. Unfortunately this album doesn't have any of those songs. It still fits on the list as the start of this band as well as the genre they helped build in the early 2000s.

Never listened to a Slipknot album. This was never my speed. They kinda freaked me out when I was a kid and were way too hard of a sound for me. It’s a bit much for a 7AM listen but let’s give it a shot. First sung lyrics are just the guy yelling. I hate this style of growling yelly vocals. It’s so terrible. It just sounds so angsty and angry. Album is long but at least the songs are mostly shorter. I severely dislike this style of metal music. This is going to be a tough listen. I miss yesterday’s jazz album. I’m ready to call Eyeless my least favorite song I’ve heard in a long time. Wait and Bleed is way better but the industrial metal angry sound is still prevalent and undercuts anything that could be acceptable. The thing that makes this all worse is it’s just a lot of heavy sound. Other than the drum, it’s mostly just indistinguishable noise. I dislike this so much that I feel bad for other albums I gave a 1 to that aren’t as bad as this. And the 2s that were fine and just weren’t my speed. This sucks. 1.

Wow this was bad. I just don't like this type of thrash rock. The good thing... The drummer is insanely good. I tried to focus just on what he was doing and let the rest hopefully fall in. This could not go by fast enough for me.

Sick drums, good songs, lots of filler.

This was not good. The riffs would be fun and then the vocals would just peak the mics and sound like garbage. This was also so long. I was exhausted after listening to this. Actual Rating: 1.5 Liked Songs: "(sic)" , "Wait and Bleed" , "Spit It Out" , "Purity" , "Liberate" , "Prosthetics" , "Only One" , "Snap" , "Interlooper" , "Despise"

The ingredients are all there but way too many of the songs lack any real melody. It's not a masterpiece but Wait and Bleed is a song with an actual hook and hardly any of the other songs on the album have that. This is a generous 3.

they were marginally better than their contemporaries and the songs with a melody are almost listenable but this is still really bad

Let’s just say this wasn’t my cup of tea.

Based on my memory of hearing Slipknot when I was younger, I was prepared going into this to absolutely despise this album. In reality, it was nowhere near as bad as I had feared, and at times I was even close to enjoying it. I can't say that I like much metal music, but I am slowly getting used to it, however I still don't get the draw of this particularly album/group.

I got halfway through this, then realized I'd rather be listening to SoaD. So I did, and I was happy.

Blehhh!!! Altgough the lads have it right about Marilyn Mansun. Extra point for thsat

Might have been a bit early in the morning for this. Not ready to be screamed at for an hour. That aside, it's tight and I have the sense the lyrics might have been making a good point. The musicianship is pretty impressive.

Very good album! Love me some slipknot! This was such a good first album too!

2/5

Hm. The allmusic write up cites both 1-star dogshitters Korn and Marilyn Manson as foundational. I agree, but also credit this as being way more enjoyable than either of those wet farts. I guess I do grade some things on a curve.

Ahh Slippies. These guys are easily the best of the genre: music to angrily game to. Sitting on top of that shit heap is faint praise indeed. Even though I wished this album ended after the first four songs, they scraped into the two-star bucket due to legitimately awesome drumming and the fact I find them kinda funny.

Great album. Percussive, 1999, layered, heavy, aggressive, glorious.

Squarely not my scene. I feel like I gotta hand it to them for like, technical complexity. But woof, I was ready for it to end.

Kind of repetitive...makes me nostalgic for how Hot Topic used to smell

Not horrible, only a few decent songs. Seemed like a lot of filler to me. 2.5/5

How does anyone listen to this and not want to stab a screwdriver into their eyes?

I liked this one more than I liked the other one, which I see I gave a 2 star with a positive comment. Unfortunately I pretty much hate music now so even though this one felt a lot more compelling and worthwhile, it’s still in the pile of stuff I absolutely don’t mind, but will also absolutely never listen to or think about again.

Love the percussion and the strings. The rage is a good feeling as well. The delivery is where I’m getting lost 🥴 I can’t get with the screeching/howling/growling Nonetheless, this is a fun album. Won’t be listening again though

I hadn't listened to this since about 2001, and I had dismissed it as something a frustrated young man would enjoy. Loud, angry, frenetic, excessive, silly. It's exactly that, and it's also maybe the best version of it I've heard.

Somewhat better than I expected. A whole album of edgy growling and the random, interspersed rap segments are the most grating parts. The 90s cooked up some scourges of music genres.

Way too long, and you just know the mosh pit is going to wreak of Axe Africa, but still kinda fun

Can't believe this one dropped on the day I was born :(

First one I couldn't finish. (sic) was good, then it just got to be too much for me. I get it, you're mad

need to be graveyard camped by 2 rogues to properly enjoy this but still holds up

not my thing but the drums are crazy

I'm going 4 stars on this bad boy. Such a heavy and insane record. It's maybe a touch too long, could have cut a few tracks in the middle for me, but it's so hard hitting otherwise. Corey Taylor is a wild vocalist. I think the vinyl scratching and other nu-metal signposts went out of style pretty much immediately after their inception, but honestly in 2026 I absolutely love it. That and the whole trash can percussion thing make this record feel really unique sonically, even if it is gimmicky, I don't care at all. Really satisfying.

if I could give this album a zero I would

Very heavy, and pretty good.

nu metal

Better than I remember and less Nu Metal (TM). 3.8

a very important album in the collection as an example what kind of performance NOT to listen to!

We're talking about unchecked aggression here, dude

#1033. I'm actually quite glad all of this is anonymous, because I'm pretty sure I don't want to know any of you anyway. Brian Eno, Tom Waits, all the shitass britpop you can find, and that criminally bad 2020 Fiona Apple album get good ratings from you, but this is where you draw the line? 4/5: excellent

Decent, better than I expected

Vad kan jag säga, ett av mina absoluta favoritband i tonåren. Corey Taylors röst är en av de bästa inom metal och jag fick vara 15 år igen nu när jag lyssnade igen. Inte deras bästa album, men älskar Wait and Bleed. ❤️

Det finns miljontals album som jag föredrar över det här. Ren ilska rakt igenom, men albumet bjuder sällan på något jag tycker låter bra. Det är en enformig röra av ljud som har rytm och en cool känsla, men som helt enkelt inte är bra. Texterna är bara ”fuck allt” och musiken låter ständigt likadan. Jag är heller inte stort fan av vrålande sång överlag. Det var helt enkelt inte så bra. Jag blir överstimulerad och vill bara lyssna på annan hårdrock som faktiskt är bra. Albumet får 2/10 från mig.

Jag hatade och älskade det här albumet. Jag hade en klump i magen idag och lite ångest, och det här albumet var som att hälla tändvätska på det. Fy fan vad ångest man får av sån här musik, vilket jag vet är meningen. Om vi ska prata om musiken i sig är den sjukt imponerande, och något jag uppskattar är trummorna. Läste att de är inspirerade av jungle och hiphop, vilket man kunde höra ibland. Gillar även när det var elektroniska samples. Men i slutet av dagen är det här verkligen inte min typ av album. Jag mår piss, det känns som att en klump har lagts i min hals efteråt och min vilopuls har fortfarande inte kommit ner efter den här upplevelsen. I och med att jag kände så starkt har jag svårt att ge albumet vad min intuition säger, då det lyckades med sitt mål och var imponerande rent musikaliskt. Därför ger jag, Grabbensomintekollarpåexplosioner, det här albumet 4/10.

se vc concorda com a frase: "LIMITARAM MEU TEMPO DE VIDEOGAME MEU, AGORA VOU ESCUTAR SLIPKNOT E ODIAR MEUS PAIS" ou acha super pertinente a sentença "MINHA MÃE NÃO COLOCOU MINHAS BISNAGUINHAS COM POLENGUINHO NO POTINHO MEU, QUE INFERNO É SER EU": esse álbum é pra você! rock pra pré adolescentes com muita raiva de tudo que eles não conseguem entender pq o córtex pré-frontal ainda nem sonhou em se desenvolver

pior que eh dos mais chato (leia-se mais nu metal) deles. eh definitivamente pra pré-adolescente revoltado, não tem jeito. btw dá pra resumir esse subgênero péssimo nessa frase, né. enfim, além de ser longo demais, eh ruim memo. eu boto fé que se for pra ouvir só pra bater a cabeça na parede, funciona. dobro e passo pro próximo!

Ah, a band I associate with booger eating kids on the school bus. Nothing quite like being screamed at by a dildo-nosed goblin. This should be called slip-NOT or skip-yes, or I don’t know, my brain is too full of scum now to properly come up with bad puns. Of course I get this album on the most brutal day of work too.

Appreciated the album but I'm not listening to it again

Perkules tästäkin levystä jo 27 vuotta aikaa... Ei ehkä niitä omia suosikki vetosolmun levyjä mut aikansa klassikko ja vieläkin muutamat biisut vilahtelee omilla soittolistoilla tältä platalta

Luulis että ääni männöö tuollasella huutamisella. Annetaan nyt yks piste kun nollaa ei pysty antaa.

Ei tää oo koskaan lähtenyt kauheen hyvin. Kuitenkin osassa biiseistä on melko tömäkät rytinät. Lisähuumorina on se, että ulriikin larssi on tainnut kuunnella tätä kun on halunnut ruuvata st angerin virvelisaundia.

Ihan sietämätöntä kuraa.

RATING: 6.5/10 HIGHLIGHT: Surfacing LOWLIGHT: Spit It Out

People like this? I have a headache. The drummer is kind of impressive, but I’m not a big fan of blast beats. There’s nothing appealing about this. It’s no fun. I’m loathe to dole out a 1 rating so, a 2 for the effort it is.

Honestly, there are some pretty great metal compositions on here if you focus on the instrumentals. Guitars are often doing pretty cool stuff, the extra percussion and DJing are a nice touch, and holy shit the drumming *rips* across this whole thing, with a great crispy sound in the production. But the vocals are just so edgy and angsty and juvenile, they bring the whole thing down.

I didn’t realize Slipknot was so nu metal when they started out. I like nu metals bass guitar sound but that’s about it. The drumming on here is nuts, but I hate that snare drum, I’m glad they ditched that on later albums. This is better than a lot of other nu metal albums, but I’m still not a big fan.

I'm listening to this after catching up on a Sepultura listen - I think it's fair to say that I am all metaled out now. I am not a fan of rough voice singing, and it really annoyed me to hear the singer singing with with his "normal" voice at times - he has a great natural singing voice. Anyways, this was a tough listen and I feel drained after listening to this album. This is definitely an artist I don't want to listen to again.

Correct me if Im wrong, but I feel vaguely aware that I should be embarrased for liking this because its nu metal and nu metal is cringe? I thought I would hate slipknot, because theyre so silly (they wear their Halloween costumes year round!!!), but they appear to take themselves so seriously in their music that its really cute and endearing. It must also be noted that this album *rips* its just really good, great instrumentals, and shockingly good production (even if it is a tad loud for my taste) 4.5/5

Just not for me. Bits of Pantera, Slayer, rap, and god knows what. Just way too gimmicky for me. Just like Korn, I don’t get the appeal.

For sure I think the album is historic, and because of that, 3 stars.

Come on, really? Slipknot? I got free tix to see them back in the day, my jaw dropped at the stupidity I was witnessing! Every song sounded the same, 8 guys were baning on giant drums, zero goodness. The listener counts are insane. No song has under 30M listens and the softly titled "Wait And Bleed" has 667M! The next top 3 range between 207M & 288M. WTF? It's no coincidence that this debut came out right as the USA started it's gradual decline. This shit melts brain cells and makes the listener dumber. A 3 minute song felt like half an hour. The drums are relentless and comically ridiculous. The man can't sing, there's no melody or groove. The guitar is lost under a mountain of percussion. This is the exact music that I hate listening to, there's no payoff for me. 1 star. Maybe they did something special but I'll never know, 5 songs in I was ready to rip my own ears off so I gave up.

This is more than solid

나쁘진 않았는데 생각보다 듣기 어려웠다.

Noise, screaming, anger, track 4 almost sounds like music for a half minute and then reverts to noise and screaming. I wasted about 5 minutes of my life listening to parts of a half dozen tracks and all I can say is the people who make this shit need serious help. Those who enjoy listening to it might need it more.

01) 742617000027 - / 02) (sic) - 4,5 03) Eyeless - 4,5 04) Wait and Bleed - 5,5 05) Surfacing - 4,0 06) Spit It Out - 4,0 07) Tattered & Torn - 4,0 08) Frail Limb Nursery - / 09) Purity - 3,0 10) Liberate - 3,0 11) Prosthetics - 3,0 12) No Life - 3,0 13) Diluted - 3,0 14) Only One - 3,0 15) Scissors - 2,0 TOTAL: 3,58 (36/100)

Slipknot's self-titled does some interesting things, but not enough for it to fully work. The highlight, by far, is the unique percussion. In addition to the fast-paced drums and blast beats there is also clattering, hollow, and off-kilter drumwork that adds another layer to the songs. It's a sound I love to hear and wish more metal used. It's a shame then that the guitars are just fine, sometimes churning out some gnarly riffs but other times getting lost in the noise. I don't love Corey Taylor's screams, but the clean vocals on songs like "Wait and Bleed" are terrific. The rapping on songs like "Only One" is not good but works with the music. Overall I find this just doesn't have enough variety or memorable hooks to overcome the often clumsy lyrics, and by the final overly-chaotic track even the percussion has stopped seeming novel.

2.2/5

Not for me

Nope

Det e så himla bråkate, men om det ikke hadde vært for den growlate vokalen hadde det egentlig vært ganske ok å høre på. Ikke helt min greie, men ikke så uspiselig som æ kanskje hadde frykta.

Pure garbage

Eslipequenorte

I was already familiar with Slipknot but not really any of their material. This is too much for me. I don't like the harsh vocals mostly, the instrumentation is mostly tolerable albeit with some harshness. I could not get through all of it and would not come back to this.

Lyrics: ass 0/10 Music: kind off cool at first but every song sounds the same and by the end of the album I was so tired. The guitar are tuned so low to the point were its hard to hear the riff. They use the same trick of putting some weird noise on the start, then hit you with a bad riff, their singer yell some bullshit, then the song start. Its like that all the time. Or maybe I was listening to the same song on repeat for 50 minutes, could be that. 2/10 It tries waaaay too hard to be edgy. I had to physically pause some songs because it made me cringe so hard. Heres a collection of lyrics on this album that made me wish I was eyeless (lol): "You cant kill me, cause im already inside you" 🤬🤬😡 "How many time have you wanted to kill everything and everyone? 😤😤😤, say you'll do it but never will😔😔" "Heart full of pain💔💔, head full of stress 😥😩🥀 hanfull of anger held in my chest😡😡" "How many time have you wanted to die ? 😭😭 its too late for me, all you have to do is get rid of me 😔😔🥀🥀" "Doesnt matter of I give a shit, its shit that you gave me" 😠😠💢 The entirety of "wait and bleed" was laughably bad I cant just pinpoint a few bars. Im only 3 songs into the album btw. This is... not good. Also I put a random Linkin Park lyric in these, try to find it. The late 90's- early 2000's were some of the worst year for metal and its because of band like Slipknot. Atleast there was Deftone (they arnt on the book, fuck me). Cant wait for the limp bizkit album/5

Listened to this setting up for my 7 year old's birthday party 😄. When ever I get a heavy album I get excited because I like heavy music sometimes but don't know anything outside of a few albums that have entered my rotation over the years. I've been disappointed for far (Seputura, Anthrax and Megadeth have come up). I was VERY pleasantly surprised by this! First song, I thought fuck yeah this is exactly what I'm talking about. The vocals (which are often a point of contention for me with heavy music) are perfect. Wait and Breathe... Hmmm vocals have taken a turn into shitty numetal territory where the singer actually tries to sing and it sounds stupid and whiny but this is the only song where this happens. The band is tight as fuck, love the guitar playing... Kind wish there were some solos but I found the riffs and effects cool and interesting. I even liked the DJ, I found his contributions to be quite tasteful. Solid 4 stars from me and will listen again.

I didn’t think I would enjoy this very shrieky, sweary album, but somehow it appealed to me. Possibly there was singing / rappish singing in between screaming. “Foundation of piss and vinegar” was a stand out lyric in “Spit it Out.”

Slipknot – Slipknot (1999) Ein beeindruckendes Debüt: hart, wuchtig und kompromisslos, zugleich aber überraschend abwechslungsreich und musikalisch anspruchsvoll. Hinter der scheinbaren Klanggewalt verbergen sich ausgefeilte Arrangements, komplexe Rhythmen und sogar eingängige Momente. Für mich ist es allerdings kein Album zum regelmäßigen Nebenbeihören. Dafür ist es zu intensiv und fordernd. Bewusst gehört, entfaltet es jedoch eine enorme Wirkung und zeigt, warum Slipknot damit den Durchbruch schafften: kein angenehmes, aber ein außergewöhnlich starkes Album.

Absolut sinnloses Rumgebrülle!

Hann inte lyssna igenom hela men många bangers. Smutt med inslag från många olika genrer

Amazing album. It’s unfortunate that they get lumped in with NU-metal as this album shows just how much they transcend that label.

I think this album marked a change in metalcore, laying the groundwork for so many bands after them. I listened to this and then Vol 3 and I do think Vol 3’s production helps it over s/t.

back half fell off

Repeat listen

This is #day719 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… here's to my second and final Slipknot record. I don't think I've ever listened to this one front to back before. It's definitely a product of its time. Nu metal in full swing. As someone who grew up around that era, my 15-year-old self was all about Linkin Park, though. Then came some Limp Bizkit, Korn, SOAD, and a dash of Deftones along the way, but little Slipknot. The nine came into my life later, when I was 18, after All Hope Is Gone was released. By then, my nu-metal phase was somewhat winding down. Still, I love that record. This one gets a 3 out of 5. Looking forward to #day720.

Look man I gave Master of Puppets a 1 so you know this is going in the pit.

(Light 9/10) Fucking amazing.

This was insane. I really liked it though, Mainly Eyeless and wait and bleed hit tho, but this is something you can listen to that truly takes the anger out of you. For that idea alone, I love this album.

Am I obligated to listen to the whole thing if I know for sure this will be 1? I don't think I am.

Second horrible album in a row. Hoping for a better album tomorrow.

Loud and aggressive but didn't dislike it as much as i thought I would going into it

Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. As cringey as their lyrics and whole image are, the music itself is pretty great. I love the strong downbeat with the rhythmic offbeat vocals. Excellent drumming.

This was not for me. I really don’t like NuMetal and while I like angry music at times this just felt so cringy. This probably hits better when you are teen, as a middle aged guy this doesn’t work for me.

Noisy

Listened

*No music, just noise and banging instruments

Still strong—no signs of the Slipknot fraying. ★★★★

i try to give every album a shot but i'm three songs in and i'm exhausted. i can't do it. jesus fucking christ. i'll never understand why people listen to this.

I like this a hair more than I expected to - the record starts strong and there are some terrific riffs. But ultimately the nu-metal vibe and incorporation of rap was just a bit too much. Too bad, there was something there …

(sic)

Wow, I somehow went over 25 years without hearing this album. And now that I have heard it, am Sooooo GLAD……that I didn’t ever bother with it. It’s just a ton of angry noise. It is the sound of severe mental issues. Not at all enjoyable. I cannot understand how anyone over 25 could listen to this. I can understand angry teens liking it simply for shock value. It makes them seem edgy and tough in their minds but really it is just something to hide behind. Much like the bands stupid masks. I’m only giving it a 2 because it created an easy identifier for the type of people I want nothing to do with. If they like Slipknot or are wearing a Slipknot shirt then I can safely say they are not worth my time. Come back when you grow up and realize this music is shit.

One of my favorites of all time

I am surprised how much I like this. I was not expecting this. At first I thought „why do I have to listen to it?“ but then it changed to „wtf this shit bangs“.

Pretty good

Music for depraved teens

I tried. I'm somewhat of a nu metal fan, I grew up with Korn, Disturbed, Staind, and Linkin Park.. but Slipknot has never hit for me. There's no structure or bounce, just noise and yelling. The drums feel completely out of place, almost like they were mixed wrong and it takes me out of it. I was honestly excited to try to hear what made these guys so big, but it was just a miss. And Corey Taylor kinda sucks.

It’s just a bit much and I didn’t have it in me to listen all the way through, but Wait and Bleed is so good and Spit it Out is also decent, so I think a 2 is fair.

Better than expected.

Maximalist

A bit of nostalgia enough for a 3

Oh so very angry

Doch schon ziemlich geil. Einmal 20 Jahre zurück bitte.

In der Schulzeit hat das viele meiner Kumpels mitgerissen, damals war mir das zu kaputt. Jetzt find ich es stabil gut.

I forget if this was the first time hearing slipknot here or not. Anyway I would have expected Iowa as the representative record here. These guys are nuts. I’m sure noise to lots of people but I love them. I saw them live once and they played this record front to back. Other albums are more catchy but this came out when metal was coming back and grunge was on a downtrend. I don’t know though, i still think it’s three stars. I like other slipknot better.

# Album Name: Slipknot # Artist: Slipknot # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Long painful listen. I dont mind heavier stuff. But theres only 2 good tracks on here. The rest is garbage. # Top Tunes: Wait and bleed / spit it out # Would I listen to it again? No

Metal and me, it’s complicated. I like the occasional song, I love moshpits in all their forms. But listening to an album, it gets old really fast. To my untrained ear, the drummer is the highlight of this album. I don’t much care for Coreys voice. I think this is one of those bands that needs to be seen live to properly appreciate them

This was not a good album.

Lotta hatred, misanthropy, and brutal aggression. Heard this in 1999 and it didn't grab me like it did most of my metal friends, and I don't feel much different about it now. I just can't get into Nu metal.

i'm not into hard metal unfortunately

genial para una día enfadada, recuerda a mi adolescencia

Oh man. I listened to this one a while back, maybe two-three years ago? I still think it's a solid record, very accessible. I don't really return to this kind of music often, but wouldn't mind it at all if someone put it on.

These guys may have some really important messages for the world that they can get across through the medium of their song lyrics. I guess we’ll just never know if that’s the case.

Just like the other Slipknot album. In fact all the songs from Slipknot sound the same. I like the general vibe.

It’s was one of life’s big unanswered questions until this album came along. “Can there be too much kick drum in music?”. It turns out ‘unequivocally yes’ is the answer. This is one of those albums only a teenager could love the whole way through. Let’s face it, it’s far too intense in one sitting.

No💜 Heavy metal not for me

“Fuck it all, fuck this world / Fuck everything that you stand for” Slipknot powerfully channel the angst and disaffection of middle America. They express anger at authority through abrasive lyrics and an embrace of nonconformist horror theatrics. But they fail to offer any sort of personal stakes, or even identify who it is that should fuck off. It’s a celebration of apathy for apathy’s sake, a glorification of anger and repulsion as though these are radical acts, when it really is no stance at all. It’s a lack of specificity that makes it easy to map their message to nearly any ideology or worldview (or appealing to wide-ranging pop audiences). Excellent drumming, though.

The natural result of the evolution of metal. Energy and grime push this into a fresh and exciting category. Contagiously enjoyable

Okay so they're gonna b screamers.... 1st song: painful to go through 2nd song: so far...painful too HELP THERE'S LIKE 12 MORE SONGS LIKE THIS ONE 3rd song: this isn't getting any better... 4th: fuck this world? I lost count. PLZ I JUST WANT TO FINISH LISTENING TO THIS ALBUM (literally seven songs in and I already want to shut it up) HELP THIS IS NOT GETTING ANY BETTER ISTG THIS SOUNDS LIKE MY OWN KIND OF HELL LIKE....THIS IS WHAT IT WOULD BE BLASTING IN THE BACKGROUND WHILE I'M BEING MAULED BY A DEMON OR WTV SHIT I was really hoping to like prosthetics bc of the intro.... HELP I DON'T WANT TO KEEP GOING I'M GONNA HAVE NIGHTMARES Okay.... No Life tho? It's like a mixture of Linkin Park w Eminem LMAOOOOO WE'RE ALMOST OVER 😭😭😭🙏 why is the vocalist kind of moaning in scissors??.... Okay, I finally FINALLY finished w the album (honestly kind of skipped the last song bc I was TIRED) and...tbh??? This genre is NOT my jam. I obviously think these guys have talent bc otherwise they wouldn't deliver these vocals (even though to me are more screams than anything 😭) and instrumentals so I don't judge anybody who likes this album but....def not the one for me.

My head hurts

Not for me

half deaf but fully alive

I've always been unsure of Slipknot. The drums/guitars are great. The "singing" starts to annoy after a while. An instrumental version would be great.

Horrible.

Unlistenable.

It's for the children

Wait and Bleed best song

slipknot sucks balls and dick

Nonsense

Pretty good debut record from a metal band in the late 90s. A slight variation on the standard nu metal of the time that separated them from the pack.

I feel like I’m losing my mind when I listen to this album. It’s the kind of music our parents warned us about!

I consider myself a metal head but I always thought these dudes were posers. That being said there are a few sweet riffs in here.

Fu

Hmm, never listened to this band. I love metal but the whole nu-metal genre came off as a bit cheesy to me. Well it's certainly angsty but it does go a lot harder than I was expecting. Not sure I'm sold on the record scratching. I don't know why but I just don't like this, the aggro just feels so performative and the whole thing just feels dumb to me. I couldn't finish this album, I love metal and feel like I should at least find this album tolerable but I really just hate it. Maybe I'm just having a bad week but I'm just over this band.

Surprisingly good but I couldn't keep that up for as long as real fans. My throat hurts thinking about it.

-Although this is clearly music for 14 year olds, it was too tough and aggressive for me when I was 14. As a 39 year old, I can definitely appreciate some aspects of this truly bizarre, uncompromising music. -The drums are insane and I love them. -The singer has an unbelievable scream. I'm less taken by his balladeering and totally turned off by the bits of rapping. In general, the hip hop elements do not seem like a sincere engagement with the tradition.

If this is your thing, power to ya!

Like the genre but just never captured the enticement of them.

I mean... at least the drummer is really good

I recall enjoying this when it came out. Upon relisten, I was shuffling through about five tracks and skipping the copious amount of filler. This one could have easily dropped 20 minutes or so. The percussion is incredibly tight and stands up today. The rest not so much. Eyeless and Surfacing are still pretty dope.

Fuck it all, fuck this world, fuck everything that you stand for! Don’t belong, don’t exist, don’t give a fuck, don’t even judge me! I love the first half, but the second half lacks a little something, and the album drags a little even before the 8-minute Scissors starts. Personally I prefer Iowa to this, but I can understand its inclusion due to the impact it had upon release.

Edgy….

There are songs on here that remind me of a time, so it gets a 3

Breaks my one rule: if I can’t understand what their saying I won’t listen.

Misanthropy at its best. People don't understand how Slipknot brought some of the elements of extreme and uncompromising metal to the mainstream and sold millions of records. That shit is not easy. Lots of people dismissing it as teenage angst or juvenile but then again they were never left in a dumpster by their friends as they overdosed. Anyway this shit is 5 star for me. 🙌🏼

Yes yes yes!!!!!!👌✈️🌊😄

There are two Slipknot Albums on this list and only one by Faith No More. That‘s not right.

If you watch 0certain types of movie this music is either liked by teenage boys or serial killers. Now I am neither of these but is was OK. Drumming was good.

Slipknot kommer aldrig bli mina hjältar.

Tog mig igenom knappt halva men sen gick det inte mer. Fattar varför folk gillar det men det är verkligen inte min smak.

Blev glad över att det här var dagens skiva. Otrolig nostalgitripp, 90-talisternas inkörsport till tyngre grejer. Men satan vilka pubertala skolskjutartexter vi har att göra med här! 14-åringar som minsann inte bryr sig ”a shit” om nånting och som chockar världen genom att säga fuck och motherfucker, men egentligen bara vill ha den där platsen på BUP. Inte ens gimmicken med maskerna kändes speciellt läskig när man väl hade gått vidare till gryniga svartvita bilder på norska tonårsmördare i corspepaint tagna i nån skog i Bergen. Det var ju människor som uppenbarligen var störda på riktigt, och inte lite obstinat peka-fula-fingret-mot-lärarna-farliga. Blir ändå en stark 3a för hitsen, joey jordisons pissvängiga trummande och rollen som 12-åringens första smak på extrem metal.

Jag klarar inte av growlande. Har till och med svårt för det med Opeth. Sorgligt!

Listened to this while having my allergic reaction and let me tell you. It was an experience. Maybe im actually allergic to slipknot who knows. I will say, while this is certainly not my cup of tea all of the time, i did not mind this. Good running music and if youre feeling angsty i could see this slapping hard. Id probably give it 3.5 if i could but I'll just stick with 3 for now. Good for the right moment!

I enjoyed the first half of the album. Eyeless, Wait and Bleed and Surfacing all next to each other make the second half of the album seem to drag on. Those three songs and the drumming skills are saving the rating for me. The drumming on this album is on another level.

I'd like to like this more than I do...and I was, like, 17 or 18 when this came out. I should have been a prime candidate to like this but I just never got into them. The musicianship is fine...even great. Jordison is an all-time drummer for a reason. It's hard not to appreciate what he's doing here. This is good, hard, aggressive music. This is what you want to listen to in the gym when you're trying to get that last rep or run that last quarter mile. The nu-metal influences and random DJ scratches just kind of ruin it for me. I don't even mind the singing all that much, it's fine. It just doesn't hit for me. Glad I listened to it, liked parts of it but I don't think I'd want to come back to it.

NGL; got me pumped!

Utter dogshit. The best thing about this album is that the lead singer will occasionally very clearly yell out “fuck!” or “fuck this shit!” and I will think “I’m right there with you, brother.”

This is very much Not My Genre, but I didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would! It certainly has its time and place.

5/5 for the masks, probably only 2/5 for the music, but I can see a world where I would like parts of this

Stærkt album. Jeg fik et glimt af det Slipknot som jeg forelskede mig i omkring 08. Yep sent til festen, men de var alligevel så stort for mig, at jeg var nød til at forberede en livs ændrene tur! Min efterskole kammerat Casper skulle være min ledsager, til den største rock og metal festival som fantes i nærområdet året efter! Turen skulle være med tog, og der var ingen hjælp at hente fra nogen. - Ugen før afgang til Rock am Ring 09, meldte han dog fra, og mine drømme blev knust. -- Heldigvis kunne Claus overtales til at tage med, selvom han havde sine sidste eksamener på gymnasiet, var 17, og vores forældre havde forbudt ham at tage med! (De skulle på ferie i Frankrig alene samme uge) - Klip til at vi står på den tyske astfald i uendelige mængder regne, våde, kolde, tørstige, sultne, og trætte - Clauses skub-op telefon ringer, og med stive finger fisker han den op af lommen for at se hvem der ringer. Telefonen gled, og opkaldet gik igennem... - Det var far... Vi blev taget på fersk gerning midt i et ungdoms oprør. - Tak for mindet Slipknot.

Er det her virkelig Nu-Metal? Jo jo, der er da lidt som lyder hen af Linkin Park. Et par gange drejer det over i Korn. Men meget af tiden lyder det mest bare rodet og larmende. Den samlede oplevelse er at der er meget skrald at komme igennem for at finde et par meget små perler. Intet på det her album kommer, for mig, i nærheden Vol. 3.

It is time for me to get back on track with my Nu-Metal November marathon, and what a better place to pick up with than with Slipknot and their entire discography. I honestly thought they had a lot more projects under their belt and was very surprised to see they will only have 9 that I am covering. Slipknot's debut studio album starts off with this high level of energy that feels so much more intense and engaging than the usual trashy Nu-Metal sound. This is something that regardless of how much you mature both as a person or musically you can always enjoy. It is loud and aggressive but just a damn good time that truly doesn't ever let up once. You can break this album apart or you can enjoy it all at once and it'll still hit the same. This is one of those rare pieces of Nu-Metal that transcends the horrible aging the genre has gone through to be a truly timeless and important release. It is super consistent, super tight, and super fun so how could anyone reasonably hate on it?

Look, I gave it a shot. I really did. And there’s moments of good stuff in here. But I just find this, for the most part, impenetrable. Just a cacophony of noise. Nice chunky drums, tho.

1/1

🤘🤘🤘

Not sure why the two Slipknot albums on here are the ones that were chosen over Iowa and vol 3 subliminal verses. Its alright, but they have better albums than this one.

Wait and Bleed is the only decent song because it actually has a melody. I don’t mind the screaming but there’s nothing to offset it with. Just heavy drums and rahhhh.

I am about 400 albums into this list and to date my highest rated genre is Metal. But it’s a bit of a misnomer, as I don’t think I’ve had many true Metal albums. My averaging rating includes Van Halen, Alice In Chains, Zeppelin, Faith No More and others that I wouldn’t consider true Metal bands. When stuff like this comes up, it’s clear to me that I am not a true Metal fan in the way that others are. I wouldn’t come back to this album over and over and over again. That all said, I am giving this 4 stars for one reason only. If you listen to it, really listen to it, it’s very apparent how talented these guys are. It’s super hard to play music this fast and be this together, and these guys are tight. So with that, a generous rating. Also helps that they are from Iowa where I am currently living.

Not a fan of Nu Metal, but a guy in his 40s probably isn't the target audience.

noooo

6/10 beautiful drums Will i add this album to my library: maybe

Wow, so edgy

It has moments of OK-ness, I guess, in a raw, primal way. One or two songs remind me a tiny bit of SoaD, but mostly it just sounds like a Walmart Korn with some token hip-hop scratching and the typical nu-metal drum style popular during the era, which, to be fair, was exciting and new at the time. The lyrics are pretty cringe and there is a deliberate attempt to push the boundaries of dissonance. There is no fun here, just anguish and angst. I feel like this is just KISS for the new bleak millennium only without the merchandising.

Powerful beginning. "Wait and Bleed" is great. This album was part of my adolescence (late part but still).

Thought I'd hate this. The drumming was stellar and the overall sonics were great. It's just the singing. At least I could understand him. I'd rate this a 3

I actually don't like this much, which surprised me ⭐⭐⭐

Wait and Bleed Surfacing

I had to listen to this on a Monday morning after maybe 5 hours of poor sleep. I think it helped me wake up but I think I'd enjoy this more without the screamo. Yes, I know. That's the genre! But the vocals are good and for my enjoyment, if there was no screamo element I'd enjoy it a lot more.

There is a joy in the variation of music, that all don’t like the same. I think I understand why others may like this, maybe that they relate see a rebellious, rage, anti- something. But it still baffles me, all this nu-metal just seems like empty calories. Screaming doesn’t equate to anything other than screaming without proper context. Yeah I have conditional bias coming in, but the music didn’t help, the horror film lyrics didn’t help. It was exactly as expected looking at the tin. Look it’s not my thing, I think it’s bollox, hearing the whole album ain’t helped, it’s exactly as expected. Thing is this shit is more a facade that teen pop. That I have more to come looking at the comments, oh joy to the world. 1 Star

The best of slipknot. Relentlessly heavy and cruel, but still incredibly catchy and interesting. So many classic metal songs

Better than Coldplay

I'm not too sure if I've ever even heard a Slipknot song in full. Their scary mask thing has always been very off putting for me. Corey Taylor sings in a way that doesn't fit the music. The music can't decide if it wants to be proper metal, numetal or something goofier SOAD style. And on most of the songs Corey delivers some Extreme vocals that just don't fit, aren't impressive and cheapen the music. It's not the worst thing in the world but they're trying way too hard to be edgy it becomes a parody of itself 2/5

Is this the campest album on this list? Voice bad, guitar bad, drum good.

I can conceive of a time for a month or so as a teenager when I would've latched onto this and then quickly moved on, denying I ever liked it. Anyhow, couldn't make it past a few songs. Go crazy kids!

This starts off so sick and then goes on for way too long. Like I loved the first ten minutes but I feel obliged to go 2 on the basis that I was desperate for it to be over for like 25 minutes straight

I have a lot of love for a lot of hard rock, including metal, punk, industrial. This just didn’t do it for me. Least favorite record I’ve heard from any of these scenes.

As every self-respecting person who is now nearing 30, I have been raised on nu-metal. This type of sound was a huge part of my childhood. That chapter has been long gone so I was in a way looking forward to re-igniting the spark. Unfortunately it didn't work out as well. I was never that big on Slipknot. I like some of their later albums but this one was a grind to get through. The songs are formulaic in a bad way. The lyrics are the epitome of edginess and once the album loses novelty, the slog toward the end begins. Joey Jordison's drumming is the one thing that shines through as well as Corey Taylor's vocal performance whenever he decides to show range. It wasn't a fun journey and I am not sure if I will give another listen to this particular one. Then again it is fun to remember that back in the day people would come up with these crazy rumors about some bands and artists. Slipknot used to play heavy into them while trying to build the freaky image. I don't think much of it (if any) was true but it helped solidify them as the band they are known today. My favorite song was "Wait and Bleed".

not my thing I'm happy to say. sounds like 1 long bit of noise and I usually like noise ..the swans...mars Volta. etc.

Great stuff

"Here comes the pain!" I've never really liked the popy side of Wait and Bleed

I can definitely hear some of the industrial influence here which but I honestly didn't really enjoy I think I might enjoy it more in subsequent listens but for now I don't love it 6/10 Favourite: Eyeless Least Favourite: Frail Limb Nursery

Not my favorite

Bit heavy for my taste but quite good

This is so constantly aggressive I actually got bored with it and the screaming. I dug this album when it came out, but just can’t get into it now. Drums are still pretty cool though.

Horrid and hurtful.

If you have ever unironically yelled at someone “I hate you, you’re not my dad!” then this is the album for you. 3 or 4 songs in I figured I got the idea and didn’t care to listen to the remaining 60+ minutes of someone screaming at me.

Tough listen

Fan of numetal, and love some of these tracks. Just not an album I will want to listen to start to finish often

Parece que me escuchan. Ahora sí

Big nostalgia kick. Some great songs, some absolutely dross though

Trying to listen to this in an office on a quiet day really wasn't the vibe. Normally don't mind some heavier stuff but that took me out of it.

It was ok I liked a few songs

Slightly better than all of the other crap that sounds like this because—every now and then—they’ll fool you by sounding like Linkin Park. But then it goes back to Cookie Monster vocals and just stupid obnoxious forklift driving music.

i appreciate metal but it’s not for me

I don't really like metal but I don't dislike this as much as some other metal

it’s just a lot for 8am. but it does kinda make me wanna lift suuuuper heavy weights

σοου γκουντ

ALREADY LISTENED

Metal + a DJ…Game changing.

I like drum. I don't like scream

I think Nu metal is fine, I kinda like how slipknot was a bit different and added in the theatrics. The vocals are impressive Corey Taylor was made to scream and his actual singing vocals are really good, the rapping is something that nu metal could lose. The production is great and this is a good sounding album. However over an hour of screamo is a bit much and I wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to this album again

Overall Rating - 1.61/5 (3.21/10). Just unpleasant from start to finish.

Känns väldigt enformigt.. De har så klart en del bangers men man blir trött på energin

While that was definitely not an album for me, I appreciate albums like this on the list. I would never have heard them otherwise.

Impressive drumming, but this isn’t for me

You don't need your Slipknot mask!

Slipknot? More like Slip-NOT heheheohohoho

You can’t say they didn’t nail this

I recorded an album with Ross Robinson once. He was a cool dude and turned me into a better drummer overnight. I love the way he’s able to tap into the deepest part of a musician’s psyche to get something truly special out of them. This album is full of those moments. I don’t love the music but I appreciate the energy.

It's always interesting to listen to nu-metal because I love metal music, especially the more extreme genres like death metal that this record borrows heavily from, so all the sounds I like are generally there. Yet I can't really get myself that enamored with this record despite that. And I think its mostly due to presentation and how the band comes off. A lot of times with nu-metal, even if it sounds similar to what I like, it just comes off as juvenile and whiney (vs. a band like Death, who sounds like they actually have something to say). Slipknot are generally better in that regard compared to a Korn, Limp Bizkit, or Disturbed, but not by much. Another thing generally hurting it is the drum production being so poppy and metallic (not in the sense of being pop or metal music, but in the sense of the onomatopoeia "pop" or a very metallic sound). This is a general problem with a lot of nu-metal, honestly. It clashes with the other instruments hard, really letting down Joey Jordinson's excellent playing. Lastly, what's hurting this album in particular is the lack of anything that is catchy. The whole album is just blistering heavy, with no breather room for something more melodic, even when Corey Taylor sings clean). Like, later on Slipknot would go on to make better stuff with more of an ear for hooks and pop sensibilities like Psychosocial (one of my go-to karaoke songs - also check out the fantastic mashup with Justin Bieber's Baby: Psychosocial Baby), Duality (which can be sung to the tune of Dolly Parton's song Jolene, and vis versa), and Before I Forget (shoutout Guitar Hero 3). That said, like I mentioned before, generally the sounds on this thing are the type of stuff I can get into, so it was a fairly pleasant and mildly enjoyable listen. Good headbang-ability to throw on in the background and go pick up groceries (which is how I actually listened to this, haha). I do think nu-metal is a genre though that, to truly appreciate, you need nostalgia for (similar to two other genres from around the same time, pop punk and emo, although I generally can get into those more). Aside from some huge hits that I remember from high school, this genre does not do much for me. Definitely a case of right band, wrong album for the 1001 IMO.

Superb album, they never put the rage and the anger like in this one. One of the very best nu-metal album

Great for a heavy lifting workout, not great for the commute home

It's annoying seeing this here as their two best albums aren't even on this list; however this sets out their stall about what we would come to expect. Insane vocal acrobatics, breakbeat and head pounding drums, guitars strafing your ears and undistilled anger. The masks may have made them appear to be a tad gimmicky, but any listen to their albums shows they're the real deal. This is a good album, but you can see this is a band finding their feet. It tends to slip into different flavours of noise... and it still didn't convince me that it should be on here. That should go to Iowa and Subliminal Verses Vol.3. Best Tracks: Wait and Bleed; Spit It Out; Liberate

Maybe it's just that I find it easy to imagine how much I would have loved this if it cane or a few years earlier, but I liked this. It has nu-metal elements that sound dated (Spit It Out), but overall the album is brutal but musically a really good metal album

I tried. I really tried. 2 songs, that's how much I could bear with it. Not my style. To me it's just noise. Too much drums, screaming, no recognizable vocal melody... I think I'll pass.

Bardzo mi się podoba. Dałbym 4,5, gdybym mógł.

Beautiful, melodic and relaxing

Melt your face off and scream into the void but music this is not.

I was ready to give this a 1 just because... well it's Slipknot, but shit this is actually a really tight band. What a drummer for a start! Obviously the scratching and white rapping has dated badly (Nu Metal was dated almost as soon as it came out haha), and the angst theatrics and costumes were always a bit of a put off, but reluctantly I have to say this record has some very good metal on it... Id rather listen to this than Limp Biscuit anyway!

Didn't understand this back then. Still don't now

Over an hour of total crap. Same drumming. Same speed. Same supposed singer. Barely a change of musical chords. Usual anarchic lyrics which say nothing. They probably sold a lot of albums and made some money?

Their lyrics are miserable and I doubt I will ever choose to listen to Slipknot. It's not for me and I never really understood the appeal, even as a moody teenager with an axe to grind. BUT they created a new sound and pushed boundaries and I admire the musicianship, their unique image and the fact they did things on their own terms, so for that reason they get a two star.

Not my cup of tea

A three star album that happens to have Wait and Bleed on it.

19 year old version me was excited and surprised to have this pop up. It came out during a time where I could use this To escape my head at times or just rock Out on a road trip. I know many will consider it noise or just loud screaming, but music gives you feels and it brought it all back to me listening to it.

Um, yeah. . . it’s a no from me, Dawg.

This didn't have to be as awful as it was. There is definitely some potential for a decent metal album but it quickly devolves into grunts and screams. Definitely for alienated teenage boys and potential school-shooters. Would give this 1.5 for hidden potential if possible.

man this was rough. I gave it an honest try. Who says white people don't have culture?

Best Song: Eyeless. I liked the intensity and the goofy voices. Worst Song: Tattered & Torn. I hate when you can tell that someone is trying to be dark and brooding. Performative darkness. Overall: Apparently I'd heard more about Slipknot than I'd actually heard them. I never realized how nu metal they were. It's okay, but it feels really juvenile, somehow. Like it was written expressly to be played over videos of gnarly kickflips and shit. At first I thought it was at least good for some radio-friendly edginess, but as the album dragged on I found myself just getting annoyed by the cloying sameness of it all.

Tämä ilmestyi opiskeluaikana ja oli ihmetystä ja fanitusta aiheuttanut albumi. Älytön meininki ja iski nu metal -boomissa kovaa. Oli erittäin kovassa kuuntelussa vuosituhannen taitteessa. Oli aikaa, kun musaa tuli kuunneltua paljon walkmaneilla junissa, busseissa jne eli albumi tuli kuunneltua cd:ltä kokonaan. Lähes 30 v jälkeenkin vahva 4/5

Why is it soooo hard to find original releases using streaming media? The deluxe and anniversary editions are about 20 minutes longer, which gets this experience off to a bad start. Im sure this album and band are great, but i just found it loud, aggressive, and annoying. I was an album behind today, so I also listened to the Scott Walker album, immediately prior to this - quite the contrast! lol. Just noise and considering some of the omissions from the 1001 list, it's frustrating that so many great artists/albums are missing and Slipknot gets 2! :-(

It's not my personal favourite choice of metal genre, but I enjoyed more than a few moments! I have to be in a particular mood for metal, so it caught me on a good metal day! I've been listening to more thrash and death metal recently with one of my children, so I particularly enjoyed the drum proficiency of this album.

A friend introduced me to metalcore, and this fit like a glove today.

Guffawed when this popped up after submitting the last review. Hope you're happy Soph. Been meaning to listen to this one forever as someone who has given his fair share of listening time to Nu Metal and will continue to valiantly defend the Korn debut. Hard to tell from the 1 1/2 listens but I think they've earned their fame - at times it feels derivative of Korn but certainly they carved at least a pretty significant sound of their own. Wildly frantic and all sorts of weird shit going down like the erratic variety of vocal styles Corey goes through and all the doohickeys they bang on. Gotta do something with the 8 dudes in this band. Feels like the missing link between probably the two best nu metal bands (that aren't SOAD - who I would say hardly count - though funnily enough Corey Taylor puts on a carbon copy Serj flow on Eyeless), Korn and Linkin Park. Certainly thoroughly enjoyable, deserves more listening. 3.5

In another life, I am born a cis boy in 1985 and this album comes out and makes me profoundly annoying. My parents come in while it’s on and I explain to them why it is amazing and they say “that’s nice, honey.” They’re a little worried that the people I hang around are getting me into drugs. I outgrow it and get into better music but look back on it with nostalgia as an adult. I did not grow up with this album and harbor no such nostalgic feelings toward it. But I cannot help but recognize some aspect of myself that would have fucked with this to an annoying extent had I discovered it earlier. Listening to this now, however, I have to recognize that it is ass. The production sounds really bad to me? Like everything sounds hollow and I feel like the vocals are too loud? And of course it is profoundly corny but I feel like harping on that too much isn’t taking this album for what it is. Coming in with the “allthetimeI turnaroundbrothersgatherroundalwayslookingatmeupanddownlookinhatmy(uh)” flow on spit it out made me laugh. Would give a 2.5 if halvsies were allowed.

It’s so cool that this was mainstream metal at the time. It’s the blueprint for so much stuff that came after. Joey Jordison straight up changed drumming forever with this shit may his soul rest in peace. It’s such a flex how the drums sound so raw and unprocessed but are 10x heavier than any metal drum sound from the decade before it just because Joey was that much of a beast. The snare drum literally sounds like how it would sound if the kit was recorded in your bedroom. Which brings me to my next point. The production/mastering of this album understands dynamics in a way that is missing from so many classic metal albums. If you put on a Megadeath or Metallica album or something, you experience the peak loudness of the album during the first song and then the rest of the album is that loud the entire time (shouts out Metallica tho they rock but fuck megadeath). There are so many times on this album where you’re like 50-75% through a song thinking “damn this shit is heavy and loud as fuck and I have likely experienced its peak already,” and then a part kicks in that is somehow louder and lower as if you turned the volume knob up on your system a couple notches. It’s insane and idk how you master an album so well to accomplish that. Another thing this album understands about metal music is that it should be actually scary. The production shouldn’t be pleasant and technically proficient it should pummel you the entire time and sound claustrophobic as fuck. The bass actually has sub frequencies that rattle your car. The guitars sound so ugly and heavy in the best way, and Corey Taylor’s scream is insane and he’s like, moaning sometimes which is creepy. Also his lyrics are sometimes legitimately concerning. Side note I remember when I first saw Soph wearing that blue slipknot hoodie and I knew she was real asf. 4.5 Edit: i wrote my review before reading anyone else’s and I just wanna apologize to Skyler for being that guy

I am opening my heart wider than the wingspan of a pelican for this album. I truly am. Let the record show I am opening my heart wider than the wingspan of a pelican for Slipknot’s 1999 self-titled album. I’m gonna go listen probably later. Okay this is really fucking awesome. This is actually fucking amazing. Shawn Crahan listed first on the wikipedia page. Makes sense. And the vocalist, his flows are so perplexing. This shit is so strange. Everyone's gonna clown on me for saying this, but this scratches a similar itch to like black midi. My heart is opening to metal!!!

never really thought this would be my thing but goddamn it RIPS. some of the craziest drumming i've ever heard and yeah the lyrics are kinda dumb but corey taylor does such insane things with his voice that it doesn't matter at all. the end of 'scissors'?? holy fuck

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. remind me not to read my FAGGOT friend lyle's review. so called "free thinkers" when distortion or yelling in music. so called "free thinkers" who want a medal a cookie or "good boy" praise after noticing an amen break™️. look. you already know why we're here. im kevin durant. you know who i am. they left "get this" (top 5 off deluxe but very important to me™️) off the album. go listen to that if you not fw me. i already Know y'all not fw me. but u gotta FW my drip. and the shitknot hoodie is Drip. OWOGH. 4.2. first ⁶🤷‍♂️⁷ tracks are all time stuff. second half is noticeably weaker (see stuff i said about aimee mann and "having" to make albums longer than 40+ minutes because "we have the technology™️") but you Have to listen to scissors b4 u kick it.

This is definitely not my thing, but I was surprised to find that I liked it more than the other metal that's come up so far. Unlike Metallica or Anthrax, the vocal style felt well matched to the extremeness of the music.

Very happy to get the two Slipknot albums out of the way relatively close to each other, they're both totally unremarkable. I do this project because I want to be surprised, not to listen to exactly what you would expect.

Baby’s first extreme metal. I found this kids who loved this band when they first appeared in high school extremely silly and annoying. The music itself is about the same but isn’t itself terrible and has some cool moments, though the production is unfortunate and the lyrics are unintentionally (I think) comical.

Full disclosure I am straight up not gonna listen to this whole album. I'm 3 tracks in and I need a day long break so maybe some other time, or times if I choose to keep trying to finish it. I'll say the drummer is doing some wacky shit and I appreciate the amen break on track 2. I'll have to leave this as a 1.5. Going to go have some Sleepytime tea.

Favorite Song: FUCK THIS SHIT

I loved funk metal, and not just the good ones but really not good ones like Saigon Kick and Mordred. Metal with a DJ just felt so exciting,and then I heard stuff like rage against the machine and eventually was less astounded by a metal band with a DJ. Slipknot however never lost that love and they built a huge chaotic noise around it. Intense, aggressive and pummelling. This is the sound of your inner 16 year old, and Tbf my inner 16 year old loves it

I'm more familiar with "Subliminal Verses"/"All Hope Is Gone"-era Slipknot, which I do like. So I figured this debut album would be a more rough version of that, but it comes across as a lot more nu-metal. I actually got Linkin Park vibes from this, even though this technically came out a year before (some rapping and a good bit of turntables). I do like heavy music (so I didn't hate this), and this is a foundation of the Slipknot I enjoy. However, I enjoy better the sound they created for themselves later on (heavy music with melodies and singing parts). I will also say that Corey's voice has gotten better over time, because his vocals are rough at times here (and rapping does not suit him).

Surprisingly good or was I in a bad mood

Echt niet voor mij

HELL yes

I gotta say, I've listened to a lot of metal in my life and have particularly avoided Slipknot and Korn because of the fanbase around them. Everyone I've ever met who when asked what their top artists they enjoy are and they mention Slipknot, Korn, or Limp Bizkit I am genuinely not surprised. Music generally does not reflect you as a person, it's just audio and sound preference, but for some reason Nu-Metal/Rap-Metal fans let it control who they are. They're the ones with the gangster Bugs Bunny oversized shirts, or the Affliction apparel. They reek of week old B.O., cigarette ash, cheap whiskey, and litter box. They have extremely abrasive personalities and are generally products of toxic divorced parents. Now the music itself is just rage. It's noise and experimenting with horrible sounds to produce sounds and music that make me want to claw the skin off my face. I think this is actually a pretty decent nu-metal album with industrial metal influences. It definitely got my heart rate up and started putting me in a bad mood by the end of the album which - respectfully - is what the point is. I think the mask gimmick is pretty fun too, and using the masks as different horror personalities is awesome live. I particularly liked "(sic)" and "Wait and Bleed". Their drums are fucking awesome too, it's the first time a snare drum has sounded like it belongs in music. Metallica tried to make it work in St. Anger - probably influenced in part by this album - but it just sounded awful. This snare drum fits in great to the general sound of this metal. Overall I'll rate it 7/10, it's still got that ashy taste in my mouth from its core fanbase, but it's not bad nu-metal music.

HONESTLY

can't wait to see the Crampo review anthems for teenage boys who don't want to clean their room

the whole thing was, indeed, sick

A moment that was not for me

Top 3 Nu Metal Albums of all time OF COURSE! Incredible how good they sound even so rough around the edges. The musicianship is astounding. Runs about 10 minutes too long.

Slipknot is a band comprising of 9 guys in masks, who combine extreme metal and rap. Not only does it work, it was also a giant success?? This album went triple platinum! Legendary. They are able to create catching songs with devastating riffs, catchy hooks, dark depressive depraved lyrics, and wild drumming that is helped to sound even bigger with percussion on top of it. This album is amazing

I need something more than airplane propellor powered drums to consider it a good metal album

3.5

Very experimental

I just can't get with this one. Some positives are the sinister vibes - it just sounds plain evil - and some of the percussion sounds (like on "Tattered and Torn." Now for some of the negatives. The swearing is overdone, it's all fuck this and fuck that, fuck it all and fuck her fucking brat. I feel the swearing could've been more done at pivotal points in the songs (e.g. at the end of a chorus,) which in my opinion would only would have amplified the experience. Rather than fuck as an every other word which is totally boring and a let down. The vocals are not great, I'm usually into harsh vocals (at least screaming and yelling) but something about Corey's harsh vocals doesn't excite or wonder me. You might see there are more negatives than positives, that's how I honestly feel about it. Some of my gripes about this album might be with more general nu metal shenanigans than just Slipknot stuff. This album is unintentionally justifying my dislike of nu metal. All the albums I come across from the generator are always approached with open-mindedness, and are almost wholeheartedly approached without the intention of hating it. I always try to look at the bright side of an album, but that sometimes that gets you nowhere. Just most things about this album I just flat out do not like, and I won't be returning to even though there a couple positive elements. Highlight Song/s: "Tattered and Torn" and "Diluted"

I think the opening sample is saying "I think its shit" which kinda sums up my view of the album.

I think there might be some anger issues. Not as whiney as All Hope is Gone (there's 2 Slipknot albums on this list?!?!) but just as subtly noisy and monotonous.

A little heavy for my taste but a good suprise

all things considered enjoy it sorta lmao

Significantly better than I anticipated. Not anything that I would revisit many times. 7/10 [KEEP]

muddy riffs, pop voice, screaming

This was a nice, hard reprieve to the usual alternative brit stuff on the list. Some moments were a bit too "nu", and the end was a tad anticlimactic but overall a headbanger. 3.7/5 -> 4/5

Absolute shit

I am a metal fan but lean towards more melodic stuff - Tool, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Soundgarden, AIC, Ozzy, Judas Priest, Metallica, etc. Harsh, screaming vocals never really appealed to me and that’s my turn off here. It is quite inventive though by mixing genres and is seminal for those who like it.

I don't listen to this style of music whatsoever, but I can see why this might be a better choice from it; there were some interesting sounds and satisfying rhythms at points, including in the vocals. It's hard to rate very highly when I don't care for this kind of music

Ugh, do I have to (listen to this)? What an unpleasant, unenjoyable waste of my time. Does this make the world a better place? On the contrary! Selfish, self-indulgent, repugnant, uninteresting, and boring. Does not belong anywhere near this list. 1 star (is 0 an option?).

A welcome change from the pop norm of this list. I enjoy hearing one or two songs, but listening to the whole album would be difficult Very good angry noise. The vocals, drums, and guitars all hit. I appreciated the occasional break from typical heavy metal as well. It loses rating from me because it's hard to listen through and because there are some weak tracks

was söll me do säge

Slipsknut gäng, res er upp. Yeah this album is pretty sic. But I liked them better when they were making songs about furries or whatever.

Me como mis palabras. No parecía para nada mi cosa, y es un discazo como la copa de un pino. Sucio, salvaje, desgarrado

I see why Karen's in the 90s thought this was summoning satan or something

no thank you