Slipknot

Nope

The whole thing, I think is shit

Supringly not hating this but can’t listen to more than three songs in a row at a time

This might be the worst album I've ever heard

One of the best new-metal albums

ya bagus

This one has been in my queue for a couple of weeks; truly didnt have the energy to listen to it. That said....better than expected. Best way to describe it - lots of yelling. Still only a 2/5.

me parecio que sonaba mejor que otro del estilo que escuche pero no soy muy del metal y esos estilos, como que me agobia escucharlos por un rato 7/10

Actually really enjoyed the instrumentals the guitar riffs are sick, the vocal style is just not my thing

ok, no me gusta ese genero :(

Trash

Stress inducing

Reminds me of my youth and Wait & Bleed and a few others are bangers but overall, eh.

Miraculously, the root canal scheduled later in the week doesn't seem so bad anymore.

While the lyrics can feel somewhat juvenile at times, two guitars are incredibly tight and heavy, and the drumming drives everything forward with relentless energy. That said, I find myself preferring their later albums.

listened to almost all of this. vocals are annoying and lyrics are even worse, but there is a glimmer of good stuff in the shit. a lot of talented musicians on here, especially the drummer

I certainly didnt expect to but i think i enjoyed that! Not my genre, but was immediately impressed with the variety and accessibility. The surprise jungle break, the rap, nu metal and the 74 different percussionists. Sure its way too long and it descends into too much nu metal and the lyrics are pathetic but its a good entry point.

Tones of layered and angry guitar riffs are suitably very red and dense sounding with these sort of rhythms that make my mind dance, feels similar to centralia by car bomb and it washes over me like how sound waves from a nu metal album should, very good!

Favorite Track: Eyeless

It's not really my cup of tea and I can't really say I enjoyed it much.

Yess, endelig litt action!

Fun blast beats, too rare riffs, stupid lyrics. Once is aggro but this record is way too long and doesn't vary enough to stay aggro. Settles into tedious.

An all-out assault—there’s just too much sonic pain for me. I think music should cause more pleasure than pain.

Exactly 30 weeks ago, I listened to my first Slipknot album (All Hope Is Gone). After giving it just one listen, I concluded that it was "easily the worst album I've had to listen to for this challenge so far" and proceeded to give it a generous two stars. I voiced how much I disliked the album to my former roommate Alex (who is a wicked drummer and a known fan of Slipknot) and he said "I only listened to that during a very edgy phase I went through in school," while noting that their self-titled album "is soooo much better." While I remained skeptical, I trusted my friend's opinion – he introduced me to a fair amount of rock music that has stuck with me since college (Dream Theater, Mick Gordon, My Chemical Romance, etc.), so I retained a small amount of hope that Slipknot's debut would land for me. By some miracle, Slipknot managed shatter my expectations. No joke, I genuinely really enjoyed this one! I wasn't expecting an album so raw and energetic with turntable scratches and other bits of ear candy peppered in – it's kind of like Hybrid Theory, but with fewer melodies and less rapping. I think the main reason this album works for me is that, unlike All Hope Is Gone, it's not trying to be anything more than it is... Slipknot knew exactly what was working for them here. There are no super anthemic choruses, crazy guitar solos or attempts at profound lyricism – it's just 50 minutes of noisy angst. The percussion is insane too! If there's anything preventing me from giving this one a perfect score (yes, it's legitimately encroaching on five star territory), it's that the album's sound can be somewhat one-note and its tracklist could have been a bit leaner. Cut out like 10-12 minutes of material and it'd be pretty much perfect. So yeah, I liked Slipknot's debut. At the same time, I don't feel the need to seek out further albums from the band – this one delivered just about everything I could have wanted out of a Slipknot album. Would I listen to it again in the right setting (i.e., not around my wife and/or toddler)? Absolutely. Highlights: (sic), Eyeless, Wait and Bleed, Surfacing, Spit It Out, Tattered & Torn, Purity, Liberate, No Life, Scissors

good

A few good tracks but generally too much teenage angst

The lyrics are very cringe shouty teen angst, but luckily you can barely make them out. The drumming is fantastic and overall I quite enjoyed it.

Sorpresivamente encontré algo de oro en ésto. Nota: 3 7

Must admit my heart sank when these guys came up. Really dislike the shock aesthetic. In reality, the record was more engaging (and considerably more thoughtful) than I'd anticipated. Does that mean I liked it? Not really. I guess as a reaction to broken America and difficult upbringings it makes sense but I can't directly relate to that on this level of nihilism or abasement. Missing the point I know but come on guys, chill out now and then.

My first metal album for the challenge, and it was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Blinking heck this is an assault on the senses. And not always (or in fact rarely) in a good way. It was actually better than I remembered, because of my healthy disdain for Slipknot fans growing up skewing my perception. It's very unpleasant, of course, but there is a little something about it. Like a rollercoaster on a hangover I guess.

Not for me

7.42617E+11 n/a (sic) 2.8 Eyeless 2.6 Wait and Bleed 3 Surfacing 2.4 Spit It Out 2.2 Tattered & Torn 2 Frail Limb Nursery n/a Purity 1.7 Liberate 2.7 Prosthetics 2.7 No Life 2 Diluted 2.2 Only One 2 Scissors 1.8 Score: 2.315384615

Gang , I’m scared Rage Help Is this the type of music they play at haunted houses? Well, they all can’t be five star albums I once knew a girl who said slipknot was her favorite album. I said cool. I didn’t know who slipknot was now that I know who slipknot is. I’m worried about her I hope she is ok I’m glad to walk away after this album is done

I made it through. Barely. I understand that I am not the intended demographic for this music. I can appreciate the anger (this is the mood of my inner dialogue from the hell-scape that is the U. S. In 2026), and there are moments where the vocals are down-right melodic (Linkin Park - like, even). But those moments are too few and far between for my liking.

Slipknot were always the heavies of all the mainstream metal bands of their time. They took the sound pioneered by Korn and Limp Bizkit and made their guitars even louder and more downtuned, the vocals harsher, and the visual aesthetics darker. Never one of my favorites of the genre, this album was just before my time, and as far as Metal goes, at the time I was more into stuff like Evanescence, Marilyn Manson, or System of a Down. Maybe this album was too testosterone, too macho for my tastes. Either way, not bad and still probably get teen boys roused all over the world today. Key tracks: (sic) Eyeless Surfacing

Ugg

There is just too much screaming to get a high score from me. But on the other hand I have a wonderful memory of rocking out to Slipknot with my cousin's toddlers on a balcony in Long Beach so here is an extra star for that.

It's noise, but it's not terrible? It's not good either, by any means, very white suburban rage.

4/7 Not for me. Music for edgy 13 year olds

One year later, I get a second Slipknot album. And yet I remember very little from my first experience (All Hope Is Gone). All I remember about Slipknot heading into this record is that they do heavy (verging on death) metal, and their lead vocalist is good when singing in a "human" voice but horrifically bad most of the time. Amazing percussion, though, and the guitar (though a little monotone at times) Bad opening track. A vocal loop with no other instrumentation cannot ever be constitutive of good music unless the singer really knows what he's/she's doing. The first full-length track, (sic), carries the torch from All Hope Is Gone and reminds us that they're here for an earsplitting time, not a long time. Absolutely godawful vocals. Eyeless does better, if only because I've remembered to completely tune the vocals out by this point. There's plenty else to listen to anyway. The drumming is kind of killer here, particularly in the mini-instrumentals between verses where it perfectly matches the guitar line. (Seems like Led Zeppelin's legacy continues.) But it's the song Wait and Bleed where Slipknot really shines. The melody, clear vocals, precise energetic instrumentation backing it up... At least until you reach the chorus section at 25 seconds in, the song is honestly fantastic. And the streaming numbers reflect this. Why all of Slipknot's tracks aren't more along these lines, I have no idea. Surfacing and Spit It Out are also pretty darn solid, particularly the latter, which contains such a weirdly engaging vocal line that I can't help but love it. Every ten seconds, the singer is doing something completely different. There's something for everyone. Even a warbling bass synth solo. The second half of the album definitely steps off the gas. Tracks like Diluted, No Life, and Scissors do very little with their musical ideas. (Re the latter: I'm fairly certain most audiences don't want to listen to a guy making intense sexual noises.) 2/5 Key tracks: Wait and Bleed, Spit It Out, Purity

Literally praying for my airpods to just die already. Please. This is awful

Retarded

I didn't hate it as much as I expected but it mostly made me feel anxious. I understand the appeal and some of the songs are good. Im just the wrong audience.

Not a huge Slipknot fan but I do enjoy the hits when I am at the gym or need to internally scream for a bit. This is defiantly not for everyone but it has a place in music culture of the 00s. I wouldn't say it's their best album and most songs are the same even if I like the sound

It’s scary insane music but it is more melodic than I expected and sounds awesome at times.

I try to approach each album with an open mind however this album has two things I absolutely detest: overly long run time and nu-metal. I tried hard but this 100% is not music for me and is a complete struggle. The lyrics are meant for angsty teenagers. But I'm neither angsty or a teenager. Good drums though… 2⭐️

Favorite Track: Wait and Bleed

Not to my tastes.

Just an assault.

WTF. NO.

We're supposed to listen to the angry Iowans twice before we die? No thanks.

yeah im not sitting through this...

Just too screamy.

It's hard to separate objectivity from nostalgia here because this was a key record at a formative time of my life. I was prepared and even expecting this to have aged badly but I was pleasantly and unexpectedly drawn in from the minute the intro launched into '(sic)'. 'Wait and Bleed' took me back to my teens and 'Surfacing' and 'Spit It Out' still sound fresh. Musically solid with great percussion, this is of course not going to appeal to everyone (most?) but has emerged from the era of nu-metal a lot better than many of its peers

iconic

Hard HARD rock. Not really my think but good production

I've never been a huge Slipknot person. I loved nu-metal back in the day... and now, who am I kidding. I've come to enjoy this band more than when I was younger, I didn't get the mask thing. The drums are wild and very good on this album, some really heavy, almost funky, weird riffs, and Corey Taylor is a powerhouse of a vocalist. I could feel this was a Ross Robinson production before I even read the wiki, with everything I know about how intense he is as a producer and how he treated bands to get a certain sound, I think it feels frantic, good and bad.

Como persona no fanática de Slipknot, pero sí que escucha sus temas más conocidos y le gusta el nu metal, empecé este disco creyendo que iba a darle un mejor puntaje que un tres. La batería de Joey Jordison, y los distintos estilos vocales que utiliza Corey Taylor (a pesar de que no sea tan buen rapero) traen algo distinto ante el sonido repetitivo de las guitarras. También me gusta la ira que transmiten las canciones, pero a veces viene acompañada de letras tan simples que me generan un poco de vergüenza ajena escuchar. Considero que es un buen debut dentro de todo, aunque le sucede lo mismo que pasa con tantos álbumes: sus temas más distintivos están en la primera parte, mientras que las demás canciones a medida que uno avanza dejan de resaltar y diferenciarse tanto entre sí como las anteriores; siento que si hubiesen sacado alguna que otra, el álbum destacaría mucho más. ↑: (sic), Wait and Bleed, Spit It Out, Tattered & Torn, Diluted ↓: Eyeless, Prosthetics, Scissors

This hybrid screaming-singing-rapping is not for me. It was dreadful but not as bad as I expected for some reason

Puke

First album I physically could not put myself through. Some people love heavy metal. I am not some people.

Anstrengend, muss man fühlen dann ist cool

nu metal is so awesome i physically cannot hate it. love love it

Definitely not my thing. Very repetitive and not a style of music I like. Also the texture of the masks on the front cover make me uncomfortable. I’m not scared of creepy masks but the texture is so gross and not in a cool scary way.

Not angry enough for this

Quand j'ai posé les oreilles sur cet album éponyme pour la première fois, l'impression a été immédiate : c'est une agression pure et simple. Un truc qui te saute à la gorge dès les premières secondes et qui ne te lâche plus jusqu'à ce que tu sois en sang par terre. Le premier truc qui frappe, au-delà de la violence, c’est l’absence totale et assumée de subtilité. C'est un concept qui semble étranger à Slipknot. Ici, on ne fait pas dans la dentelle, on fait dans la boucherie chevaline. Il n’y a aucune nuance, aucun moment où on se dit : « Tiens, ils vont poser une petite ambiance mélancolique là ». Que dalle, c'est du parpaing balancé du haut d'un pont, non-stop. En écoutant l'album d'une traite, j'ai eu cette sensation persistante, presque agaçante : celle d'écouter le même titre en boucle pendant une heure. On a beau avoir neuf mecs sur scène, avec des percussions additionnelles, des samples, des platines et des hurlements, le résultat final manque cruellement de relief. Et au bout d'un moment, la rage devient monotone. La colère, quand elle est hurlée sur le même ton pendant 50 minutes, finit par perdre de sa force d'impact. On finit par s'habituer au bruit, et c'est le pire truc qui puisse arriver à un album censé être extrême. C’est le paradoxe Slipknot : c'est tellement extrême que ça finit par devenir un bruit de fond, un tapage permanent qui anesthésie l'oreille plus qu'il ne la stimule. Pourtant, je ne peux pas décemment dire que c’est un mauvais disque. Si on se place dans le contexte du metal de la fin des années 90, c’est une sacrée baffe. Ross Robinson, le producteur qui avait déjà foutu le feu avec Korn, a réussi à capturer une énergie animale avec un son compressé à mort, c’est étouffant, c’est crade. Techniquement, c’est une machine de guerre. La batterie de Joey Jordison est une performance de haute voltige. Le mec ne joue pas, il mitraille. C’est précis, c’est nerveux, c’est le moteur qui fait que ce paquebot de l'enfer ne sombre pas totalement dans le ridicule. Parce qu'il faut bien le dire, sans cette précision rythmique, Slipknot ne serait qu'un groupe de foire avec des masques ridicules. Mais là, il y a une intention. Une volonté de nuire qui transpire par tous les pores des morceaux. On est dans le haut du panier de ce qu'on appelait le nu-metal, même si Slipknot a toujours essayé de se détacher de cette étiquette. Ils sont plus méchants et dérangés que les autres, ils sont moins "MTV-friendly" que Limp Bizkit et même s'ils ont fini par vendre des camions de disques. C'est cet aspect "sale gosse" qui sauve le meuble. Il y a une authenticité dans la détresse et la furie de Corey Taylor. Le mec ne chante pas, il purge ses démons, c'est cathartique, c'est viscéral. C'est pour ça que je lui colle un 3 sur 5. Parce que dans son genre, c'est un coup de maître. C'est l'album qui a redéfini les limites de ce qui était acceptable dans le mainstream musical à l'époque. C’est un disque qui a marqué une génération de gamins paumés qui avaient besoin d'un truc plus fort que la moyenne pour se sentir exister. Mais pour l'auditeur qui cherche un tant soit peu de construction, de progression ou de textures variées, c'est un calvaire. On tourne en rond dans une cellule capitonnée avec des types qui tapent sur les murs. C'est impressionnant au début, mais au bout de vingt minutes, on a compris le principe. C'est efficace, c'est brut, c'est sans concession, mais c'est aussi terriblement linéaire. Une ligne droite tracée au sang sur un sol en béton. Pas de virages, pas de paysages, juste la vitesse et l'impact. C’est un "must hear" parce qu'on ne peut pas comprendre l'évolution du metal moderne sans passer par cette étape. C’est une borne kilométrique importante, un passage obligé pour réaliser à quel point la musique peut être utilisée comme une arme contondante. Mais une fois l'album terminé, le silence qui suit est presque le meilleur moment du disque. On reprend enfin son souffle, on a les oreilles qui sifflent et on se dit que, ouais, c'était une sacrée expérience, mais qu'on n'est pas pressé d'y retourner tout de suite. Slipknot, c'est l'incarnation de la colère aveugle. Et comme tout ce qui est aveugle, ça finit par se cogner contre les murs. Souvent les mêmes murs... Toujours les mêmes murs.

goes FUCKING hard

I enjoyed listening to this. First time i’ve listened to a full album by this band. It was incredible to have blasting through my headphones whilst I mowed the lawn. Corey really pushes his vocal cords to the limit.

Album number 48, Slipknot, Slipknot ⭐⭐ I hated nu metal when I was a teenager. It was the big thing at the time and it never, ever gelled with me. I’m not really a big metalhead in general, though I do like some metal. So this isn’t really my thing. A few years ago, a friend recommended Toxicity by System of a Down, and I ended up loving it. I thought it was brilliant, and if it came up on this list I’d probably give it five stars. So when this came up, I went in with an open mind thinking maybe I’d been wrong about this genre. And I kind of was, and kind of wasn’t. Starting with the positives, the production on this is great. I love some of the choices, like the turntable scratching, the drum and bass-style intro on one of the tracks, the squelchy effects, phasing, and all that found-sound percussion stuff. It keeps things interesting. Even though it’s about 49 minutes long, I can’t say I was ever bored. Musically, it is quite formulaic. Once the verses and choruses kick in, it’s hard to differentiate a lot of the songs. They do change things up a bit on tracks like Prosthetics and Scissors, but for the most part it sticks to that same structure and guitar tone throughout. That’s the genre though, so it kind of is what it is. The best thing on the album is the drumming. It’s outrageous. Absolutely spectacular. I genuinely found myself wondering how he came up with some of those parts. The fills, the sound of the kit, the crack of the snare, the weight of everything, it’s all incredible. The drums are nearly front and centre, and they carry a lot of the album. And that’s kind of the issue. Because what is actually front and centre is Corey Taylor. To be fair, he’s clearly very talented. He can do everything. The growl, the scream, the clean singing, even a bit of rapping. But I just can’t stand this style of vocal. It’s what puts me off every time. I find it really cringey. It’s just this solipsistic whining, moaning, and over-the-top angst. When I was a teenager and going through my own stuff, I never connected with this kind of thing. It just feels boring to listen to, and because he’s so high in the mix, you can’t escape it. I honestly think I’d enjoy this album more if the vocals were stripped out entirely. And it’s not even necessarily his fault, it’s just the style. It suits the music, but it’s not for me. Going back to Toxicity, there was always a bit of ambiguity in what Serj Tankian was doing. Here, there’s no ambiguity. It’s all very direct, very dramatic, very in-your-face, and I just can’t take it seriously. I found it cringey as a teenager and I still find it cringey now. So yeah, some great musicianship, especially in the drums, but the vocals completely ruin it for me.

Fav- spit it out 2/5

This is not my favorite genre by far, but the drummer is really good. I survived this album by focusing on the melodies (yes, there are occasional melodies here) and the drums. Otherwise, I pretty much hated this.

Loved it when it came out, really not in the mood to listen to it as an adult.

Great album. Metal innovators. So much going on in their songs, different forms of percussion, good mix of song singing and yelling. So perfect to influencer a ton of later bands.

Too angry for me

Kunnollinen nostalgiapommi "nuoruusvuosille". Vähän samaa vaivaa kun tuntuu monissa muissakin levyissä olevan, että puolen välin jälkeen on hittibiisit kuultu ja menee vähän väliä junnaavaks ja sekoiluks. Ei toki haitannut paljoa menoa, kyllähän tätä mielellään kuuntelee.

Not at all what I listen to music for.

I love this album and band so much. Corey’s voice is unmatched and the blend of metal and hip hop with the turntables is always welcome

More fun than I was expecting.

Great rock music and talent, thx!

Not me today

perhaps if this had caught me on a really angry day it would be a better score. perhaps.

Nope nope nope. 1 maximal

I can see why alienated teenagers would enjoy this kind of music. It’s just really not my favorite genre of music. “Scissors” was the best track on the album. The Too bad this album was way too noisy because cutting through the noise there were some interesting lyrics here and there.

Not my thing.

Gotta tell ya, i was REALLY close to giving this one a 2 based on the stuff i liked about this but there truly wasn’t enough for me there. Only one song i could see myself listening to again out of 15, most of the rest left me pretty annoyed. The excitement after pressing play on track 1 quickly faded and by track 10, checking to see how many tracks were left felt like some kind of karmic punishment. The non-screamt vocal deliveries were all well done but there’s only a couple of those and the rest is exhausting. I was SO relieved when it was over. Thinking of them rapping in those goofy masks makes me giggle though.

Too noisy for me

Better than expected

Listened to 3 songs and, nope. Can't do it. I usually give albums a listen all the way through but with the current state of the world I can't listen to an album full of hate--towards self, others, the world. Just can't do it.

I have nothing against the musical elements of this. Percussion is really impressive, and sometimes high voltage metal is just a lot of fun. But my god, this thing is so so cringey and stupid. Lyrically it is one of the biggest pieces of shit I've ever subjected myself to. Just "fuck you, fuck me, i hate everything." Like, "Renegade sisters, blisters, salivate, litigate, liberate" - cool man, you know how to rhyme. So empty and juvenile, has the emotional intelligence of a fifteen year old school shooter, which feels like the target audience. Hated it

Sometime you wake up and choose violence

Ho-lee-shit, boys. Strong start, I’ll give ‘em that much. I rated “All Hope is Gone” a 3, and I’m going with a 2 for this one because it’s a little TOO hard for me. Unlike “All Hope is Gone”, there’s no softer side explored and 15 tracks of pure aggression is TOO MUCH for me. If this is on the background, I might headbang for like 3 minutes and then ask politely to change the station. LIBERATE! BANANASSS! Amen.

no.

Is this a joke? What is this abomination doing in the list of albums one must hear before they die? Or is it like literally before, so one would suffer in the afterlife or something? Seriously, if the point of inclusion in the list is “hey, look, there’s this thing called Nu Metal that was prominent in the late 90s - early 2000s“, then literally any other example (ok, almost any) would be much better than this.

Album=shit

Tim: You don't need your Slipknot mask! Trevor: YES I DO! Tim: When are you going to use it!? TREVOR: TAKE A SHOWER. That short scene from Detroiters is the best thing Slipknot has going for them. Because the music itself was bad. This is the second Slipknot album I've pulled and it got worse. Screamo metal with screechy guitars. "Surfacing" has what sounds like an alarm going off at times which is awful. When they're not gargle singing (or breathing like Gail the Snail) it's not too bad, but in this case I think that only happened in one song. I don’t often comment on lyrics, but I swear 50% of the lyrics in these songs is “fuck”. Poets they are not. All in all this was an assault on my ears that I hope never to experience again. My third official 1/5.

I'm very familiar with this album and the scene it exploded out of and whilst I don't think it's Slipknot's best effort, it's still very strong. Slipknot were a group of misfits growing up in the arse-end of nowhere, Iowa. They were bored, pissed off and had access to instruments. The music they made was harsh and abrasive, offensive to some senses and people didn't really give a shit. Then they put on the mask and as Bane prophesised, they blew up. This album goes for shock, and it lands that on multiple fronts. If this isn't your bag but you're still a little curious, their later albums are definitely more coherent (Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)) and catchier (All Hope is Gone).

decent

It's heavy....

Better than I expected.

There are worse metal bands that you could listen too than Slipknot. It's not really my kind of metal but it's pretty good at it's core. Just not my cup of tea.

It took a lot of self-denial to listen to Slipknot. I don't hate them but it pisses me off. More than by the band itself I'm pissed of by boys that feels like Slipknot is best, most raw, cool and brutal band they could listen to. They always think they are better than you. And, of course, it's even worse when you're woman. That is one thing why I do not like Slipknot. Another reasom. It's fucking boring. Instrumentals are good but there are a lot better ones. And that fake eminem rapping along the metal sounds is pissing me off even more. I hate the vocals in there. This is the most overrated band for me. I thought I'll give it like 2* but it's not worth it.

Painful.

metal

Strong start, weaker finish 3

Quando eu estava no ensino fundamental, um colega meu começou a assistir um videoclipe dessa banda num dos computadores da sala de informática. Detalhe: os computadores não tinham som.

Incredible drum and guitar sound. I prefer the variety of some of their later work but this is still a great debut album in this genre.

I’m not listening to all that, but I’m giving it to cause I know the drummer must play like crazy

This never was for me.

Not as varied as Deftones or Korn, but still ticks the anger box

Amazing 2/3. Past that, I had to actively ignore the lyrics to appreciate the music.

Happy for them!!

quchashi vusmendi rom kacebis cat calling gadaefara. didnt work but hey!

2/3. Couldn't quite finish this one; just became too much noise for me in the end. I actually thought it was decently paced, and some of the music itself is cool(ish), with the heavy drums, guitars, and unique sound design. I just don't like these vocals (or the boring rapping), and this level of angst and anger just doesn't resonate with me at all. I do think it's culturally significant though and deserves its spot on the list.

I am a 14 year old boy and I’m very angry at my stepfather.

BANGER! Some of the best heavy rock in a long time.

I can't listen to an hour of this. Made it through the first few songs and then gave up. Giving it 2 stars instead of 1 because I'm sure it's a great example of the musical genre, but I just get such bad vibes from it that I can't listen to it. Which is probably what the band was going for.

Second album proposé après 'All Hope Is Gone' que j'avais bien apprécié (noté 4/5). Ce second album est un peu moins varié que le précédent, mais tabasse plus ! La batterie + percussions donnent un son écrasant. Certains riffs sont bien trouvés, c'est un plaisir après cette semaine de disques moyens/mauvais. Pas sur de l'ajouter à ma collection (je lui préfère le précédent), mais je l'écouterais de nouveau avec plaisir ! =>3.5/5 arrondis à 4/5 pour compenser la semaine.

Not for me. Can't get into the scream speed metal genre.

Holy cow. These people hate their parents. Amazing drumming, and how the singer can scream like that is amazing. I prefer a bit more musicality to my music, and most Nu Metal kinda sucks. This has its moments though.

Great album from a band I only know from this record. Wait and Bleed is the most melodic of the songs so it’s nice to hear some actual singing beyond just screaming, really shows range. I’ll take a big percussion section in any band any day.

Kinda goes hard if you open yourself up tp it. Cringiest lyrics tho

1. zeven - 0 2. zic - 2 3. eye - 1.5 4. uuait - 1.5 5. zurfacing -2 6. zpit - 1.5 7. torn - 1 8. purity - 1.5 9. liberate - 2 10. Prosthetic - 2 11. Life - 1.5 12. Diluted - 1 13. One - 1.5 14. Scissors - 2 15 Eeyore - 1.5 16. Inside -1.5 17. This- 1.5

no thank you

Sounds alright, not my cup of tea

Slipknot ist das 1999 erschienene Debütalbum der US‑amerikanischen Nu‑Metal‑Band Slipknot. Die Aufnahmen fanden überwiegend 1998/99 im Indigo Ranch Studios in Malibu, Kalifornien, statt, wo die bandtypische Dichte und Härte mitproduziert von Ross Robinson herausgearbeitet wurde. Bekannt wurde das Album durch Songs wie „Wait and Bleed“, „(sic)“, „Surfacing“ und die Single „Spit It Out“, die den rohen, perkussiv geprägten Sound der Band prägten. Die Band aus Des Moines, Iowa, zeigt auf dem Album eine Mischung aus aggressiven Riffs, schnellen Drums und wilden Breaks, die zum Stil des Nu‑Metal zählen. Die Produktion ist klar auf eine dichte und kraftvolle Wirkung ausgelegt, ohne sich in technischen Feinheiten zu verlieren; die Songs sind auf unmittelbare Wirkung und Energie fokussiert. Der internationale Erfolg des Albums trug entscheidend zur Popularität der Band bei. Das selbstbetitelte Album bietet einen bemerkenswert konsistenten Eindruck der frühen Phase von Slipknot und steht für einen definierenden Moment im Genre. Insgesamt zeigt es einen präzisen und unverblümten Einstieg in die Musikwelt dieser Band. Bewertet lässt sich sagen, dass es ein solides Debüt mit klarer künstlerischer Identität ist.

I can't lie, this was my shit back in high school. Listening to this now, I can't really take the lyrics seriously. The first half is quite decent, but the rest just drags on. 5/10

Can’t, just can’t

Really enjoyed the album , great riffs and tempo kept me tapping me feet all the way through

More lame shit from the west coast, what a surprise. It’s so bad at points I can’t help but think it’s parody. Please God no more nu-metal. I understand how the Britpop haters feel now. Truly some of the lamest stuff ever put on tape, interesting in that regard. Rating: 1.1

This is my first time listening to this Slipknot album start-to-finish. I am a fan of metal, but I do not like Slipknot. This album is not doing anything to change my opinion of the band.

I never got what people see in Slipknot. Doesn't do a thing for me.

As I said in my previous review ... on to the next crap album!

Despite being part of the nu-metal 'scene' I was never that into Slipknot. I might like the odd-song, but it never really appealed beyond that. There is some good stuff in here, but it gets a bit much after a while. They became a much better band over time in my opinion. This one is just quite raw and messy. It's not that bad though.

2/10 I now realise, 300 albums in, I have been too generous with some of my ratings. This has some bits that are listenable, and that would have got it two stars. But it doesn't deserve them. It is awful - lyrically terrible, musically excruciating. Horrible

Not my thing, too much noise, too dissonant. I am not that angry.

Not for me.

No x

It's close to the worst thing ever. I lay that blame about 90% on Corey. He growls and screams in the most annoying way. There are only about 3 minutes on the whole album where he actually sings and it's not too bad. But 3 out of 52 is not going to be enough! Some of the music is pretty good. Although it does tend to a bit all same-y. I'm saddened that after a few years, something like 90% of all hard rock/metal got to sounding like this. Blistering riffage (ok, that part's cool!), fast drumming that sounds like it's on pickle barrels, and some idiot screaming, usually through an effects pedal, sounding like a demon asking for another glass of nails. Fucking horrible! ONE REDEEMING POINT: The drummer absolutely slays! He's a fucking banger. Sad it sometimes gets lost in the mix. This is a 1 because I can't leave a 0 and the drummer alone deserves the point!

Standing on the shoulders of giants. So much death metal, thrash metal, breakbeat, hip hop, doom metal influence. How some of these dweebs on reddit claim that Slipknot isn't nu metal is beyond me. Joey Jordison is to Slipknot what Wes Borland is to Limp Bizkit. Tracks that showcase Joey's percussion (especially earlier in the album) are typical industrial/thrash/death riffs over some really solid polyrhythms and interesting fills. Later in the album, the songs kind of bleed together into a generic Nu metal stew. Joey is very reserved in these later tracks. Going for a very typical hardcore 2-4 beat and the songs suffer for it. Corey Taylor's rapping is beyond embarrassing. I've always been down on Slipknot because I don't think they deserve the seat they've been given in the metal pantheon. They're a bunch of other bands' ideas mashed together to make a palatable, marketable paste. That all said, this album was huge and directly inspired a lot of more accessible metal music in the past 2 decades. Not nesscessarily a good thing, because now we have wannabe tough guys saying "keep politics out of the scene." Plus we got Five Finger Death Punch, and that's horrible. Bringing it back to this album, it really outstays it's welcome. As previously mentioned, the album really loses gas in the second half. Which is a shame, because there are genuinely some cool tracks early on in the album, I think I just prefer the more raw, death metal inspired tracks to the sing songy choruses and uninspired, generic rhythm section of the middle and back half of the album. If it's not clear, I am very passionate about extreme music and it is downright embarrassing that bands like Slipknot get included when they're are a plethora of other, more well deserving albums. Album gets an extra star being extreme music is woefully underrepresented on this list.

Slipknot - Slipknot Even though I love metal, I largely ignored this when it was released, mainly because Slipknot fans were insufferable at the time. Slipknot fans back then were like the Arsenal fans of the metal world (maybe they still are, I'm ignorant to it these days). They honestly believed Slipknot invented extreme music and that there was no band more shocking or extreme. Revisiting it in later life, I've started to appreciate this album. After seeing endless drum covers of Eyeless on TikTok, I've began to appreciate Joey Jordison as a drummer, even though I did feel that some of his stage show theatrics were gimmicky back then. It's just missing some solos for me, but I understand it doesn't fit the aesthetic of the album. 4/5 for me, just missing some solos, but I get why.

I guess not everything from Iowa is "Nice". Heavy metal, with the emphasis on heavy. I can't listen to songs that are ALL growling and screaming. Pitchfork: n/a Rolling Stone: n/a

8/10 Album

My thoughts as I'm listening: <Seeing the cover> Wow, what a bunch of idiots! This is some real pre-teen rage nonsense, isn't it? OooooooOOoo I'm so disgusting! and Mean! Yeah, mean! Lady! I say the Eff word a lot! lol <first track> ok a sample to start...... it definitely is trying to creep me out but it isn't working. <first REAL song> yeah this sounds exactly as I expected. Incredibly angry, but about - what? Being white and young in the late 90s? Yowza. The guitars sound like a thousand asses all having diarrhea at the same time. The drums probably sound the best, but the snare sounds weak and thin - like a middle school band's snare..... <track 2> ok - yeah, more of the same! Is there anything different about this track? The tempo is about the same, the production is the same, the riffs are completely illegible. Is it my headphones? Why can't I discern the riffs here? The density I'm sure is considered a strong suit for them but mostly it just sounds horrible. <track 4> the chorus is actually a chorus which is nice. The rest of the song is more of the same. <track 5> I actually don't mind the intro. The guitar wail is kinda cool - but then it just repeats ad nauseum and becomes incredibly annoying. Oh wait - I might've heard this before. I recognize the lyric, "I am the push that makes you move." SERIOUSLY. I'm the push that makes you move. Just - so lame. SO LAME. No wonder these dudes all wear masks, they're ashamed as hell to be singing this drivel in public. <track 6> Oh my Christ it's just the same shit over and over. How long is this album? FIFTEEN FUCKING TRACKS Jesus God Christ. Let's skip to the end. <track 15> Eeyore. I always loved Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. Why have you put his name on this auditory desecration? A-holes. Slipknot, what you've just played is some of the most insanely idiotic music I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent banging were you even close to anything that could be considered a musical idea. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. ONE STAR

Embarrassingly, I liked this a lot as an album

It's Slipknot, 3rd album from them for me. Their debut is actually better than the other album by a mile, and there are some sick riffs throughout, but it's still far too edgy and cringe to be enjoyable for longer than 30 mins. Went with Spit It Out for my playlist, but any of these would do, its kind of all the same.

NSFW, way too screamy for my taste

Favorite songs: (Sic), Diluted Impressive percussion. Just not my jam.

Bludgeoning riffs, double-kick drums, turntable scratches, and layered shouts collide in thick, percussive waves, with vocals swinging between guttural roars and venomous yelps, making this nu-metal album feel like standing next to a demolition crew—powerful and occasionally gripping, more often than not just loud though.

Buen album, alta percu y lo lloran los viejos meados que dicen que es reggeatón con guitarras, aunque tienen mejores. Si tocás la bateria del album entero te quedás sin extremidades. Sape

If your biggest problem as a kid was soccer practice went too long you'll think this is heavy and edgy

Nicht meine Musik!

Top Songs: Wait and Bleed Spit it out

Sick but very creative.

I’ll never enjoy metal, screamo, or really anything even semi-adjacent to that world—but I’m always curious how people get into it. I don’t think I could ever sit down and listen to something like this. I don’t know, man

It's all just objectively silly, isn't it. Grown men in jump suits and horror masks, shouting about anger for the sake of being angry (fuck life, hate everything etc) and vomiting on the audience for attention. Throw in some cringey twiddly/scratchy nu-metal sounds just to make sure everyone knows what era this is from. I totally get why angry teenagers fall for this sort of thing, but I'd really hope they'd grow out of it by the time they're old enough to vote. The drumming is brilliant though.

Angry music is like angry driving: substantial increase in effort to accomplish minimal improvement. Although I enjoy some slipknot songs, this is solid guitar and drum work that lacks solid execution.

Fiquei com um pouco de medo. Más muito bom, muito bem produzido.

not really my kind of music, but you can't deny the influence it had on numetal in the early 2000s.

ok this is pretty tight. i only knew wait and bleed going into this and used to hate slipknot back in middle school but i'm in my 30s now and can admit when i was wrong. this is a strong debut, with tons of power and passion and violence poured into these tracks. other than the st. anger-ass snare drum and the crappy high-pass filter tinny mixing, this is great stuff. i didn't write many notes while listening but i did write this: "eyeless sounds like system of a down breakcore... weird voice? check. singing about california and marlon brando? check. heavy guitars and insane drums in the background? check. yep, that's soad." 4.5 stars but there are so many haters here that fuck it, i'm gonna round up because of the corey taylor and richard cheese duet of almost paradise. that shit slaps. ok bye. favorites: eyeless, wait and bleed, surfacing, spit it out, no life, only one

This is he worst music ever made.

I was genuinely excited to get this album as someone who never listens to NuMetal because I assumed I knew what it all sounds like and I don’t like it but was open to discovering something new. I don’t feel differently now but I’m still glad I listened. I didn’t mind the marked popular songs which makes sense being the most palatable/commercial. I made it through most songs but I was laughing the whole time. I can see the appeal especially for a younger audience I guess?

Not my genre hinestly. For what it is, this is penalty a good representation of the genre. I remember some of these songs from the radio in high school. I’m not into the screamo thing.

look. i’m not a metal fan. it gives me such a headache. prior to the pain in my head i was like okay focus on the guitar and drums, slay???? so fast christ?! but yeah just do not enjoy this

Man this brings out the furious and sad 16-year-old in me and it was weirdly fun to relive it. Having been engineered with great care and precision to be as ferocious and creepy as possible, everything (ALL NINE BAND MEMBERS PLAYING AND HITTING AND SCREAMING AT FULL VOLUME ALL THE TIME WITH ABSURD INTENSITY) sounds huge and dangerous, even if it takes itself far too seriously for something so dumb and silly. (I’m sorry, is that percussionist wearing a clown mask and hitting an empty metal barrel with a baseball bat? Yup, sure is! And it really ties the band together somehow.) The lyrics are…bad. But they work most of the time (and are easy to ignore) because both they and the music just feel like mindless shouts of rage. “Diluted” is a cringey and probably problematic song, but the first dozen times I heard it, all I knew was “words words words words words words WHAT THE HELL - DID I - DO TO DESERVE ALL OF THIS?!” You don’t listen to this album to understand the vocalist’s reasons for his rage…you just shout along with him. (“Get This” is beyond the pale. No matter how much you like the energy, the lyrics make it an irretrievably bad song.) The album (or at least its high points) blew my mind when I first heard it in ‘99 and it still sounds great even though I’m an old man now (and even though, to reiterate, it’s very dumb and silly). It loses a step whenever it tries to turn up the creepy and turn down the ferality: several songs are not interesting or driving enough to compensate for their overly unsettling subject matter (kidnapping torture, all that fun stuff). But at its most feral it’s very cool…if you can move past (or better, embrace) the aesthetic and the general conceit of the band: that extremeness is the entire and only point. Dumb and silly and awesome. As a salute my not-quite-forgotten teenage years, I give it 4 [self-conscious, pimple-faced, and inexplicably angry] stars.

I don't like Slipknot because I'm not 13 years old anymore.

I remember hating it even more, so 2 is a step up I guess.

wreszcie jakas odmiana po wyspiarskim synthowaniu i milosnych uniesieniach hamerykanskiego folka, pierwszy na liscie albumik od slipknota, ktory jest zarowno pierwsza plyta w ich dyskografii jak i moja pierwsza muzyka sluchana od nich, bo przed dzisiejsza sesja sluchawkowa znalem ich jedynie z smiesznych maseczek i kojarzylem raczej z kiczowatym okultyzmem muzycznym dla kucow, a nawet cos znalazlem na tej plycie dla siebie, gatunkowo jest to nu metal, ale tak doprawiony negatywnymi emocjami, glownie nienawiscia, ze slucha sie prawie jak ciezki rap z podobnych czasow rocznikowo, bo plyta jest z 99, a kontent nienawisci kojarzy mi sie glownie z aotp czy jmt, ale nie samym wydzieraniem mordy i jebaniem wszystkich plyta stoi, bo godzinny krazek swietnie blenduje gatunki, skoro nu metal to ciezkosc metalu, ktora slychac glownie na drumsach i agresywnych drumach czy perkusji, ale elementy hip hopu maja tez swoje miejsce, bo slychac zarowno krecenie talerzami, ciekawe pomysly samplowe i typowa produkcje z mocno lejerowanym brzmieniem, a jesli dodac do tego zachowany balans pomiedzy darciem ryja, lagodnym spiewem i rapowaniem, az dziwne ze to jest jeden i ten sam wokal, bo miejscami przez lejerowanie glosu czlowiek ma wrazenie, ze slucha trzech roznych glosow, z tego wyszlo bardzo sluchane nu metalowanie, wiec zaczynam rozumiec jak ktos mogl sie wychowac na tego typu muzyce, ma energie, estetyke i charakter brzmienia, a jesli dodac do tego mocno korny czy krindzowo edgy lirycznie momenty, ktore pewnie inaczej sie sluchaja w gimnazjum, to dodaje to klasycznosci tej plycie, ulubione traki ktore leca na plejke to eyeless i spit it out, wiec raczej urzekla mnie rapowa strona slipknota, musze sie dowiedziec w ktora strone poszli na kolejnych krazkach

Good

Aw ye boi. Rev up your edgegines, we're going into maximum overdrive. I can't wait for the zombie apocalypse to break out (I'd survive) so I can blow the heads off of all my teachers and that bitch Jennifer from math class (I'd do it while holding my gun sideways). Me and my buddies Dakota and Ryan love going down to the mall and drawing dicks in all of the stall rooms - funny shit. That was, until we were banned for doing donuts on the rooftop parking lot. Dakota's driving license was also suspended for going 85 in a school zone and crashing into the front office. Summer is ruined now that we don't have a car, I'm still grounded for the mall incident and the prom's tomorrow. I guess I could give this album a listen to avoid punching a hole in my dry wall. All of this backstory-ing and shit to say that I'm lucky to come across this album now. I dig Slipknot. I've blasted my ears with hundreds of their songs whenever it's Charlie's turn to play on the Xbox. They're not as good as Trapt, but they succeed at soothing the inner turmoil which is deeply rooted within my psyche and perfectly encapsulates the pain of this modern, postmodern fucking existence, yo. If I were the Joker I'd be playing this in my Jokelair all the time or wherever it is that he plans his crime I don't know the only comic book movie I've seen is Blade 2. Anyways, let's break this music down on an objective level. The songs are good. The album is good. The artist is good. The vocalist is good. The guitarist is good. The percussionists are good. The backing vocalists are good. The samples are good. The producer is good. The mixing is good. The mastering is good. The engineering is good. The photography is good. The graphic design is good. The typesetting is good. The recording studio is good. The record label is good. The genre is good. The recording dates are good. The year of release is good. The English language is good. The concept of music in the first place even is good. The bassist is good. Yeah, I'm thinking this music is pretty fucking good. A grade A banger if I've ever seen one. Book time, though I'd like to make it abundantly clear that these editors are fucking idiots. They said in the entry for Funeral by Arcade Fire that emo was, and I quote, "...emotionally illiterate, self-indulgent angst-ridden garbage". Jennifer and Mrs. Higgins can wait. When the bombs drop, I'm raiding the offices of Universe Publishings, creating my own edition of the book and obliterating your skull first, John Doran - curator of the Funeral entry. FUCK. Alright, so my stupid fucking little brother swiped my edition of the book and wouldn't give it back. When I tried to pry it from his scrawny little hands, the book was ripped in half and flung across the room. My dog is happier than a pig in shit now that he's gnawing on my half of the book, which includes the entry for this album. Fuck it, guess I'll improvise. Topped the charts in every country that matters. Playing this to any hot teacher or girl who goes to another school WILL cause them to have the most animalistic, passionate, mind-blowing sex with you. Only massive-cocked, muscle-bound men who can survive apocalypses listen to this music. Only scrawny little pussyboys who get gnawed on by zombies dislike this music. This album is good. I am better than you for liking this music. I cosign this inclusion.

Full of energy, raw emotion and impressively fast drumming and guitar riffs. An iconic album that kicked off the nu-metal era.

A ferocious debut, Slipknot establishes the band’s place in the genre, led by drums that propel and amplify the album’s raw emotion.

Very harsh metal

4.0

basim sisti

This genre was never my thing, but I went in open minded. I was able to appreciate some of the musicianship and there was enough variety for me to see that they were exploring boundaries within the genre. I was on board for about a song and a half but then it turned into white noise and made me feel bad. This is still very much, not for me. I haven't really tried to listen to this kind of stuff in a long time and this was the first time as a parent, which made me listen to the lyrics from a very different place. I found myself getting angry at the sentiment of many of the songs. In some ways a get it. Rock and Roll was originally all about rebellion, as was Punk and Grunge, and many others, and in some ways this is that same spirit of rebellion just taken to an extreme. But to me it just paints a picture of pathetic dudes threatening violence on the world for not loving them. Real incel energy. Honestly, I couldn't understand a lot of the lyrics, so I don't know if the text supports this picture. But it feels like it does.

The musical equivalent of colonoscopy prep. I’m very thankful that I don’t have whatever trauma is necessary to create or enjoy this.

Muito coisa acontecendo ao mesmo tempo. Não sei se são meus fones, mesmo com volume baixo, foi dificil se manter ouvindo, e o álbum é muito longo. Irritou meus ouvidos, o pior que antes na minha adolescência eu gostava e ouvia por horas.

This review recalls a different time. Perhaps the last time when you could go down some different cultural byway and miss out on something entirely. When Slipknot came out I was too busy with other things for new music (what it was isn't important to the review, but trust that even for a music lover it can happen), so by the time the band had risen to breakout success I was completely distracted and not picking up new music. For two years I coasted and listened to stuff I already knew. And after that, I spent the next 5-10 years confusing them with another make-up/masked band: Insane Clown Posse. I really didn't give them much thought; they just got unfairly paired up and put into mask-wearing gimmick nu-metal. Astute readers and fans of the band will note that within that date range Joey Jordison impressively subbed in for Lars Ulrich on a few songs one night when Lars was in a hospital, and that was recorded. Listen, this is long and not really that important. I'm sure an AI could make it more succinct, but this is one of those albums that's a journey to even get to, you know? When I started to pick back up my listening habits, metal was not first in rotation. It took me another 5-8 years to fold that all back in and have any kind of integrated listening life, but my tastes have always hewed closer to older thrash, black metal, sludge/doom, and other non-mainstream harder musics. All to say that we're now in the era where nearly all music is available at our fingertips digitally (whereas when we started we were not). So now there's plenty for all, and we follow our tastes and get into our little filter bubbles, and maybe we move another 3 times and have no friend group to say "no, you should really listen to Slipknot." And Joey Jordison dies summer of 2021. And this is where the story really begins, but we need you to see just how listening to them was always a near-miss between 1999-2021. It's then that the algorithm puts the footage of that night when Joey and Dave Lombardo (and Lars's drum tech for a song) fill in for an exhausted Lars in front of me. And yes, Dave Lombardo was a beast, but I already knew that. Now is when I first take note that Joey was a special drummer. And I read the comments and all that. And then I play a few Slipknot songs streaming and think it's pretty good but not really my thing, so I don't go all the way back to the first record. Remember, we're streaming; we just have all this music at our fingertips, so why push deeper some days when you're tired and work has you down. Later I throw a few songs on a mix playlist. Basically, the band enters a very light awareness rotation where I've separated them from others. But it's going to take 4 more years for me to listen to this record. Maybe you need a break? Go get a cup of tea. Anyway, about 2-3 weeks ago, I listened to that concert footage again in its entirety. It just stuck with me as a thing I enjoyed, and so here we are appreciating Joey again. But I didn't put the record on. Nope, I took a vacation. Seriously. I just told you to take a break too, remember? Well, now I've just got back from Italy, and I unpause 1001 albums generator to submit my two-star review of Norah Jones' Come Away with Me. Honestly, I don't think anyone is left to read these lines but maybe a bot slowly crawling across the internet in search of the last page or pixel. The first album to hear in 2026 that's going to get more than 3 stars is going to be Slipknot by Slipknot because today I listen to the whole thing for the first time. You can miss something great for just one reason or for a bunch of reasons. It doesn't matter if you have nearly the whole of recorded western popular music at your fingertips. What you need is the opportunity and a moment in time to come together where you can give cultural production the attention it deserves. Maybe it will floor you and you'll write Slipknot by Slipknot down on your list to pick up at an actual record store in some kind of physical format so you can walk away from the dumpster fire of the internet and put on some amazing metal and let those speakers push air. Go on. You can pick up the 25th Anniversary version of this record. That's crazy — it's a lifetime for some. Maybe while you're in that store, you should cross over an aisle or two, get in some new cultural byway, ask for a recommendation and grab something different. Maybe your Slipknot is just around the corner.

Couldn’t listen to more than 10 seconds of a song without getting a headache sorry

I did used to like this album a lot. The first 6 tracks still sound great. Disappointed with some of the tracks on the second half of the album that just feels repetitive and spooky for the sake of it. Overall good. 3.75

Nice, heavy rage album. Listened on vinyl. I have to be in a very certain mood for this.

I'm not a metalhead -- not even close. But you can see the makings of a good metal band in this album. Slipknot has a unique style of metal and the band is willing to add elements from other genres (rap and post grunge, for example) to their sound.

Coming on the tail end of the NuMetal era Slipknot offered something different than other bands like Linkin Park, Korn or Crazy Town. There were a lot of Halloween Bands at the time too, like Mushroomhead and Mudvayne, who later dropped the makeup. Somehow Slipknot’s music focused in on the deep psychosis while simultaneously was self-reflective, and in a weird way calming rageful. I always wondered if this is what schizophrenic feels like. But let’s be honest, the focus Slipknot was on the vocal transitions of Corey Taylor and the otherworldly aggressive drumming precision of Joey Jordison, who was probably one of the best drummers of the age. With having so many members in Slipknot, they were kind of the Wu-Tang Clan of the early 2000s metal scene, which is sad considering about half of them are dead now due to drug overdose. There’s some hard hitting songs out here like Prosthetics, and the radio favorite Wait & Bleed. I had a chance to see them in concert in 2001, and that was a wild experience, which I think helped perpetuate their long-term sustainability. This album is a solid submission into musical history. Later albums, as they were trying to go harder, more aggressive, seem to lose some of the power that this one offered. For metal fans this album is a must. For non-metal fans I could see where this might be a lot to listen to.

Random thoughts: * Listened to this while stuck in I-70 morning ski traffic. Not probably the best setting for this album. * If i want to get my rage on, this seem like a pretty good and aggressive album to put on. * The drumming was super technical and I enjoyed listening to it. * After a while a lot of this kind of just blended together but that has more to do with my lack of listening to this music and it just not my kind of music. * No Life caught my ear and was a fun listen. * I did notice this had that late 90s/early 2000s sound of that rap/metal. It wasn't full on rap but had that rhythm and vocals. * Julian did not like this album and he said the singer was too much of a try hard. He is also not a fan of the masks. I like the masks look and the singing on this. Way better than the growling vocals that I hate. * I would listen to this one again when I need to break some stuff.

Nope, not falling for one of these again!

oh please. Hard to stand. Sold it years ago.

One of the albums that got me into metal. Glad for a relisten.

Harder rock than I usually listen to.

I hate screamo- nothing against the singer just can’t personally get past it. The drums were Insane tho

Thought this was going to suck. It pretty much did, but some of the riffs and arrangements were quite good. Still won’t ever listen to it again.

It's good to hear an album made with real passion, even if it is ridiculous and over the top

9/10 Slipknot burst onto the scene out of nowhere in 1999. They made an immediate impression through their aesthetic, but that wouldn’t have lasted long without a solid record to back it up, and this is certainly that. For an album that managed to catapult them to mainstream success, this is a remarkably grimy and gritty piece of work. Yes, they did manage to include what is essentially a pop song on the record in Wait And Bleed, but when taking in the whole range of the album (which the aforementioned single still fits into perfectly well), the breadth of sound, from heavy and aggressive tracks to the more creepy, threatening ones, it is mind boggling that they managed to break through the way they did. With this album, Slipknot took the tools of their nu-metal contemporaries (detuned guitars, samples and turntablism and a heavily rhythmic approach in particular) and combined it with obvious influences from much of the metal that had come before to spin something that was truly unique and horrifying. If Black Sabbath were the Hammer Horror of music, Slipknot are more akin to The Blair Witch Project, Saw and Hostel. Grimy, psychologically menacing and brutal. Of course this isn't for everyone. Neither is Stevie Wonder. But for those who are interested in psychological horror, heavy, dirty and aggressive music, this is a joy to behold. The rhythms are intense and compelling, driven by the magnificent talents of Joey Jordison, the riffs are heavy brutal, with a side of groove thrown in, and around all of that, the sound design just elevates the power and atmosphere of the music. It really is like listening to an audio representation of the descent into psychotic madness at points, and anything that can evoke that kind of sensation is doing something right. And then, over the top of that, you have Corey Taylor’s vocals. I’ve often wondered why Corey’s vocals have worked for me when a lot of other throaty metal vocalists don’t click, but I’ve realised today that it’s the fact that he often sounds like he’s on the verge of falling off the edge of aggression and into uncontrollable sobbing. There’s an emotional weight that means it doesn’t sound like artifice, it sounds like genuine uncontrollable fury. And he’s got great range too. I could probably lose the moments where he leans towards rapping, but the rest, from whispering threat, through well controlled singing to the aforementioned guttural, emotional collapsing roar is bang on. The only reason that marks this down for me is that it has a tiny touch too much of the nu-metal edge to it, and it’s also just a tad too long. I think stylistically, that’s probably in part down to the record label trying to sell this to the nu-metal crowd (and it obviously worked), but for me, their masterpiece was to come next. 742617000027 - A scene setter. It’s dirty, grimy and almost hypnotic and it pretty much perfectly creates tension… (Sic) - That absolutely bursts into life. There’s so much weight and drive to this and the drums in particular just punch and punch. It’s so heavy and aggressive, but they don’t just rest on that. They play really nicely with emphasis, pacing and rhythmic variety to create something that pulses and breathes until it builds to the repetitive, force it down your throat denouement, before fading away in a really satisfying dynamic drop off that provides a moment of pause. Eyeless - The jungle drums at the start give this an interesting twist. The dynamic space they afford by backing off for sections of this track only make things punch harder. The groove that they’re able to build is an underrated part of their sound, and that’s on show here too. Corey’s vocal performance is excellent and so emotive. It feels like he’s about to break down at any moment. Wait And Bleed - The hit single! I kind of get why it hooked people. It’s a pop song with a hooky chorus presented by a super heavy metal band. That being said, the fact something this heavy getting into the UK top 40 out of nowhere is still mind boggling. It’s a simple song, Corey's vocals transition well between singing and screaming. The riffs are great, the drums drive and compel and it does it all in less than two and a half minutes. Lovely. Surfacing - The intro to this brings a bit more of that hypnotic build that the intro gave us. There’s more of those rhythmic switch up moments there too and we get some nice bits of percussion pulled to the forefront here too. More killer riffs, more great rhythmical drive. There are moments when the guitar tones get a bit too crunchy in the top end and lose a tiny bit of weight, but that’s pretty minor. The lyrics are very teen angst, but that’s almost part of the charm. Spit It Out - It’s so relentless! There’s some more nice alternating between sung and screamed vocals. Some of the sound design in her is so excellent too, particularly in the pauses between the heavier sections. They drop and build brilliantly all over this album, and the same can be said here. There’s great atmosphere to a lot of this that sometimes slips under the radar too. Tattered & Torn - More of that atmospheric work on display here. It doesn’t have the heavy, relentless pace and riffs of what’s come before, but there's so much intensity and horrific energy to it that it keeps you totally on edge. If music is built to evoke emotion and feeling, this really achieves that goal, even if they’re not the kind of feelings that most music evokes. Frail Limb Nursery - This is another pause in the album (deleted from subsequent releases due to copyright infringement), but it’s another horrific pause that, while it dips from the frantic intensity, maintains the dirty, disturbing menace of the album. Purity - A super chuggy riff to kick us off here and the scratching gives the rhythm a nice groove. It’s a slow, atmospheric burn of a track that twitches and pulses before it bursts into life for brief moments. It then transitions into something more melodic half way through. This is a great journey of a song that moves through a wide range of different sections, all maintaining that grimy, menacing edge, but playing really nicely with dynamic range and atmospheric sound design. Liberate - More monster drumming here and some solid grooves with more deftly executed riffs that give the beat space to have focus. Again, the way the flip emphasis now and again is so satisfying and Corey’s vocal sliding subtly between almost rapping and almost roaring is great. The album is emotionally relentless, but they still create enough variety and dynamic shifts to keep it fresh and this is more of that. Prosthetics - Another unsettling, menacing start to a track that builds really nicely. More top notch sound design in here too. The groove is so compelling and driving. It’s not as balls to the wall as some of the other tracks, but it’s so rhythmically satisfying and auditorily interesting. There’s so much grime and threat to it all that it feels like a fever dream in the basement of an unlicensed mental institute run by psychopaths. No Life - This kicks us back into a higher gear. There's a lot of rhythmical interest going on in the verses that comes together into a unified pulse for the chorus. Some more great atmospheric melodic moments in there, all backed up by more grimy, creepy sound design. There may be a lot of members in the band, but they really do all contribute to the atmosphere and tone of the work. Diluted - Corey’s vocals have a lot of range across this album and here’s another interesting delivery through the verses. This is insistent, but still has more of the rhythmic variations that break the songs up so well. This is dirty, grimy and furious, but never loses that atmosphere of psychological menace. Only One - This leans a little too far into the typical nu-metal sound in places, particularly the rapping and doesn’t quite have the depth of sound design to it feeling almost too clean. But it ends strongly. Scissors - There’s so much going on in this track. There’s atmospheric tone setting and sound design, some great riffs, some brutal and brilliant drumming and percussion, and Corey Taylor giving us a wide range of different deliveries to the vocals that accompany the varied intensities and tones of the track really well. It’s a long form horror track that’s a glimpse into the deranged mind of a tempestuous and volatile mind on the edge of collapse. Mudslide - A relic of the CD era that hasn’t made it into the streaming era, this is a recording of the band in the studio hidden after silence on the previous track and before the hidden track. Eeyore - This has intensity and drive in spades and, to my mind pre-empts the direction that the band would take with the following album. Heavier and even more intense. It’s a short one, but it’s a great way to close the album, particularly with the sound design of the ending.

not for me

Not my cup of tea.

Get why its on here... But my watch told me to relax three times while listening to this because my heartrate was spiking. I absolutely don't get the desire to fray your nerves in this manner.

decent metal

Not my cup of tea

In certain scenarios I think i enjoy this more - the way I listen to these albums I can’t - it’s a very good album but not something I enjoy listening too

There is bad, then there is Slipknot bad. 1.

Wicked

I don't hate the world today so this album didn't hit as hard as it could have.

No había ninguna necesidad de escuchar esto.

That's a whole lotta angst and double bass!

2.5 for me. There are some good songs and ideas in there. It’s just all of it just sounds chaotic and finished in a bit of a mess by the end if I’m honest they did some better songs later on to be fair

Shite

Wild

Not for me.

Slipknot is a legendary metal band and for good reason there are some really good moments in this album, but this is also an incredibly long album, it’s very tiresome to listen to. Musically this hits though.

I liked it more than I want to admit. The energy is sweltering and unrelenting, in no small part due to the phenomenal drummer. Lots of industrial and harsh textures, but still weirdly musical. The lyrical content and vocal delivery is just as edgy and cringy as I expected, but I can appreciate it in a sort of "this is awful but fun" kind of way.

Not my jam.

Sounds like early Korn

10/10 album

Something about the earlier Slipknot albums always hits different. This one especially is aggressive and heavy but has such good rhythms that are hard to stay still listening to. A classic of the era and still a fave.

I can see how other people like this. There seem to be a great many of them, even. I am absolutely not one of those people, though. Couldn't wait for it to be over.

I’ve listened to this album before and I love Slipknot. I think this was an absolutely fantastic debut.

I feel like I get it, but Slipknot always trailed system and rage for me. not my corner of this genre

Not exactly my taste, but I did like the album

rubbish

A lot of genre shock. Not my favorite, although there was some interesting stuff. I think the only way I could listen to this is working out

Apparently I was in the right mood for this as I was actually enjoying it.

Another debut album, that's five in a row (leaving out the Christmas 'bonus'). Not as gimmicky as I was expecting knowing about the band's penchant for costumes and clowns. The drum sound is pretty awful though. Between that and the shouty unintelligible vocals I'm not sure I'll be able to make it through the whole thing. When the singer forgets to pretend he's a monster with a sore throat the vocals are pretty good. I suppose that is supposed to reflect angry and disaffected youth, I can get behind the sentiment but have a hard time dealing with the delivery, to each their own. "Diluted" is my favorite track. I could see going back to this song. Seeing the 19+ minute run time of "Scissors" I was fully prepared to bail on it - then I was reminded of hidden tracks, haha!

Slipknot somehow skipped me by during my young teen Nu-metal phase. I’m guessing young me found the costumes lame, even if she liked Wait & Bleed. Anyway, this one was a positive surprise for me. Better than expected but still overlong and samey.

I understand why many people on here hate this. They most likely don't like metal, which is absolutely fine. But I do, and this is my favourite from Slipknot! I love the agression, the angst and the rawness of this record. You can't deny that you absolutely need to have this genre represented on this list, and this is one of the best nu metal records ever. Many would argue that Iowa is their best, but I think that this is. This spawned a whole new generation of metalheads all over the globe, and it gave a voice to all of the crazy pissed off children in the world.

Hard pass. Nothing about this album is enjoyable to me.

I normally wouldn’t enjoy this at all, but the fact that I listened while I was on a tractor slashing the back paddock at my parent’s farm really put me in a mood to enjoy a bit of Slipknot. It made me realize the place & context by which you listen to the music can severely affect your feeling towards it. If I was listening at the office or while on a quiet walk or something it would have pissed me off and I’d have given it 1 or 2, but given the context it’s worth a 3. Wait And Bleed was the standout.

Not not a fan of Slipknot, but they were always a bit too heavy for me and this album is sort of the epitome of why. Super thrashy and angry, whereas I prefer their more melodic stuff

Heavy

This feels less like music than an endurance test: propulsive riffs and relentless percussion buried beneath vocals that sound psychotic and nihilistic. I can understand why some listeners find it cathartic, but for me it’s exhausting—an hour of profanity and rage with nothing to hold onto emotionally. The band is tight and intense, but the lyrics and delivery make it unlistenable.

A killer album from the group that bought so much controlled anger to the scene. I can't get enough of Corey Taylor's vocals

certifiably not interested in metal

Not my favorite Slipknot album by a long shot. I think they really killed it with Iowa. This album just doesn't quite get there for me.

This is what I imagine Stephen Miller listens to when he's edging.

Not sure this list needed multiple Slipknot albums, but sure. It's exactly what I expected going in. I'm always kind of disappointed in Slipknot because Corey Taylor has a nice voice but he insists on doing the heavy metal scream singing that is just grating to my ears.

Really not my thing. Listened a bit, skipped a bit, switched to some cricket commentary from Adelaide. That was more tuneful. I get that there are people who like this, and I understand why this is on the list. But not for me

These guys look like stupid clowns, but the music is actually not that bad. There's elements of nu-metal and rap in here which totally sucks, but the parts that sound like thrash and old school hardcore are pretty cool.

There is a lot going on in this album that I would enjoy... if it wasn't absolutely smothered in all the things I dislike about the average heavy metal song. Frustrating and disappointing.

I enjoyed this album a lot, although at the time it was drifting weirdly in the middle, it's definitely a rocking album right before the NuMetal crazy. I'm a fan!

What i can say about slipknot... this album is amazing, inovative, raw, heavy, emocional and angry, very angry. The groove is amazing, really impactful, the vocals is great as well, the same for the instrumentals. In the end it feels a litlle bit repetitive, but that doenst mean it get bad. For the wholeness, 4⭐

Someone once said that Slipknot is music for fat, ugly kids. It's more or less true but that doesn't mean the music isn't brutal. I think of all the fat, ugly kids in my school who wore Slipknot shirts and JNCO jeans and chains and also liked ICP and my soul weeps for what was and will never be again.

I have tried to submit a review for this album THREE TIMES and it will not submit no matter what I try, so here's another condensed version. >Good instrumentals >Only edgy kids I knew when I was 11 liked this shit >I like Corey Taylor but he's trying way too hard to be edgy in this >listenable but I'm not coming back to this

The fact that there are two Slipknot albums on here and no Deftones albums is really, really funny. Pizza cutter music: all edge, no point.

way better jam than i thought it’d be, it’s not what i would go for all the time, but it think it’s fun to listen to a handful of tracks every now and then.

Not for me.

Pathetic.

How the fuck do these guys have 2 albums on the list

I was listening to soft Christmas music before this and it already felt like this was going to be a hard pivot just based on the cover art. Sure, why not start the album with what sounds like my screaming alarm clock but worse? Aside from that I actually vibed a little bit with some of the songs — I just find it hard to take all the yelling seriously. I think my problem is more with the genre than the album, but it’s a 2 nonetheless.

Pretty good except for 90% of the vocals.

I appreciate some of the drums. But. No joy has been sparked while listening so I'm good without this.

Well, I gave their MUCH less acclaimed 2008 album a 3, so it seems reasonable that this should be >=3. This is going to shock everyone, but the Slipknot aesthetic makes literally no sense to me. I was reading an interview with some band members, and they said that more than experiencing commercial success and selling shows, all they wanted with their first album was for someone to hear this new fresh sound they created and loved. And to some extent, I get it - the detail and craftmanship sonically is evident. I just don't see a similar level of care lyrically. Don't just tell me that "life is too fucking hard", have some nuance. I feel like a lot of angry punk-rock is directed towards ex's which at least makes sense - their anger is just directionless. Idk, I guess I just don't get this as a complete product, but it's also not my style. The guitar, drum, and backing effects are enough to keep this at a 3.

A SECOND Slipknot album? I dunno... One was okay. Listening notes: -This feels a lot tighter than our last slipknot. Everything is just more cohesive. -Why does spotify have to keep adding more moving imagery? Just let me navigate the damn app! (not relevant to this album but gosh the app just keeps wanting to do more) -Not sure I'm ever gonna be an unclean vocals guy, but it works a lot better here. -All that said, this is a really long album, and the spotify version appears shortened from a version with a bunch more space between the last tracks. This irritates me. -The inclusion of rapping in Nu Metal (cf No Life) rarely works for me. -Finally decided to look up some lyrics on my second listen through. They clearly have angry punky vocals, but they aren't very articulate about their issues with the world. It seems they're just angry for the sake of anger, like high schoolers, which I find kinda boring. Review: Hard to rate an album that I think does what its trying to do well, when what it's trying to do isn't something I particularly like. Just gonna be true to myself and say that I didn't enjoy this. 2 stars. Guitar is clearly talented, if not particularly my thing.

I am not the target audience for this thing. All I know is every time they try to do something that sounds halfway decent in a chorus, they decide to remind you exactly what they are for the rest of the song and the next five as well to really drive the point home.

Hits the ground running and is at its best when going full balls on the wall. However, by the time we're finishing Spit it Out they're out of tricks. All the record scratches and warbled synths in the world won't fix a medium metal album. Those drums tho. They're worth the admission price alone.

I think I am in a Slipknot moment.

poopy music

I love all these artists who are trying their best to shock and offend, it's really quite charming. Can they be this angry all the time? It just seems a bit restrictive to limit yourself to these emotions when you're trying to express yourself, it comes across as disingenuous if the only way you can relate to the world is by screaming at it. I feel like I had heard everything this band had to say 3 or 4 tracks in and the news that there is another Slipknot album on this list is disheartening, especially considering what has been omitted. A real chore to listen to.

For a band that is basically byword for the excess, stupidity, and mindless violence of turn of the millennium metal this is actually surprisingly good. The riffs are, of course, hard and heavy and downtuned to mud, but have a good groove to them and the dj/effects give a bit of higher end texture. The screaming vocals have a guttural power and the odd bit of melody to them, once you get used to it it works. The sound is insanely thick and bricked, it fills all the space available instantly - the double blast drums especially leave no breathing room, to space to think - collapsing distance and submitting you fully to the noise - you either succumb and give yourself over to it, or switch it off immediately. Good thing the lyrics are all unintelligible bc they are so stupid it hurts and the raps are awful, but at least they're relatively rare. The most stressful thing possible to just passively have on in the background.

nu metal more like ew metal am I right? drums are lit. the drumming alone gets them 2 stars

Just lovely. Should have checked it out earlier.

Not bad at all. Love the percussions for this one

fun 3

Very aggressive

OK

4.5/5

As a teenager, this always seemed excessively silly and angry to me despite (perhaps) being in the core demographic for them as a band. And it still holds true 25 years later. The very worst of the resurgence of the genre around that time.

Do you reckon these guys give a fuck? They sure are keen to hammer home the point that they don’t. As expected, it’s intense (but mundane) riffing and a whole lot of nothing in terms of lyrics. Laughable, even. I think they are a far better act when they extend their songs past ~3 minutes, as seen on Scissors. But even so. There isn’t a whole lot to write home about. It’s metal for 13 year olds. Which is what I expected these guys to be, and from this that is really all that they are, other than being the only notable thing to come out of Des Moines.

It's Slipknot I guess

It’s over now

Loud and awesome Standout songs: Wait and bleed Spit it out Diluted

Hated this slightly less than the first Slipknot album we had! 1.5 rounded down.

Slightly more tolerable than the other one we had, but still a solid 1.

I bought this album when it came out and thought it was great. But then I started to not buy into all of the stuff around it and I haven’t listened to it for a very long time. Some great tracks here but it does wane a little little under the weight of the length

I'm sensing a lot of anger here. The drummer was pretty good.

That was painful! The guy is yelling, not singing. I found some of the lyrics offensive too.

Overall: 8/10 Nostalgia blast! ☝️🤓 Slipknot were one of the 3 bands (with Avenged Sevenfold and System of a Down) to really get me into metal. This album was huge during my formative years and I've listened to it probably a million ½ times. What I love about it is the pure aggression, Corey Taylor's killer vocals, and some of the best metal drumming you'll ever hear (RIP Joey Jordison). While this isn't my go to album anymore, and I think the second half is much weaker than the first, this is still a dope album and it holds a special place in my heart. Fav Song: Eyeless

I’m not a fan but it’s important. The 2 stars reflect my not being a fan rather than my ‘this doesn’t belong here.’

Nauseating. Bracing If there were a ‘remove from list” button I would be using it. I can't rate this. The rage filled lyrics about oral r$pe were too sickening to hear. Some young men mistake rage for strength, cruelty for power; and need dehumanising sexual aggression to feel a man. But it's the worst man. They just lonely wonder and adrift and need kindness but don't know how to give it ir ask for it. . Worse, When anger is sold to young men as power, there are predictable bed outcomes: isolation, mental-health collapse, broken relationships, harm to self and others. And this is happening a lot with young men. There are better option for your men who need connection belonging. Is change and replace this bankrupt script with models of masculinity rooted in courage

Here is a community announcement from the fine young men at Slipknot: What the fuck is up, get the fuck away, run if you want to. Run indeed. Run.

All aggro, all the time. This just makes me weary. If I was 14 and hated my step-dad, this would be the shit. But I'm not, so it ain't.

I did not enjoy this album listen. I can see why Slipknot would be appealing to some people but it became very clear while I was listening that this was simply not for me. This might be my personal worst album yet. Did not enjoy listening to someone screaming violently into a mic for almost an hour. I do not see myself listening to this album or Slipknot in the future.

Wow proper shouty , metal , and have to admit didn’t like it a whole lot , however I have seen this band at Leeds and enjoyed the experience as it was full on mosh pit and I was slightly drunk a theme which will emerge through these reviews

Slipknot is criminally underrated for the skill and musicality of their music. It's not your standard "scream" music, as they play with time signatures, soundscapes, vocal methods and subvert metal expectations by throwing in a DJ and multiple percussionists. I do think there are a couple clangers at the end, but it's hard not to give this 5 stars because the first 2/3 of the album is essentially perfection. 4.5 stars. It gets the benefit of the additional half star because of all the Taylor Swift pop stans and geriatrics who think Beatles are the pinnacle of "rock" music that will instantly give this 1 star because it's too loud and aggressive and scary.

I hate nu metal. It's so overblown, has the feel of stuff that 14 year old boys think is hard. Hysterical and really annoying vocals. Insane drumming in a good way, everything else seems perfectly engineered for keeping people awake at 2am in detention centres. Just not to my taste at all but it executes its genre well- unfortunately the genre fucking sucks. At least they seem to be genuinely having fun making so this is marginaly better than LP. Mixing is terrible.

How much do I even wanna say about this album? Heck, how much would anyone **need** to say? It's the kind of metal you don't think about, you feel. And if you feel it, well, damn, you're in for a good time. But if you don't ... well, I guess you might never will. But whether or not you feel it really depends on how much you're willing to buy into what these songs are about, at their core. Now, for the most part I think the lyrics don't entirely matter. The energy and anger are so palpable you'd be completely fine taking the album on those alone, forsaking the lyrics entirely. But it's where that comes from, as detailed in the lyrics, that might make things difficult for some. This **is** nu metal, after all. And what is nu metal to most people but a lot of whining and complaining about how your life is just **awful**. "Let me tell y'all what it's like being male, middle class and white! It's a bitch!" That sort of thing. I can absolutely see people listening to this album, hearing all of the screamed "FUCK YOU!!!"s and just thinking, "Gawd ... get over yourself already!" I don't think I'd go that far, myself. Sure, I doubt they're 100% telling the truth here — most performers aren't. And these guys are up here wearing "scary masks," so how much do you think they're being nothing but genuine? But putting that aside, I wanna think that a lot of this is coming from a real enough place. They had to tap into some sort of pain to get some of these songs across. "Scissors" in particular — unless you're a real piece of shit, I don't think you'd write a song where you scream "I WANNA DIE" ten times in a row without somewhat meaning it. And I wanna think I'm empathetic enough that I can understand where they're coming from at least a little. Though, with that said, I did end up mostly taking this album just on its energy, like I said. And just on its energy, this is some fuckin' brutal shit. I'unno the last album on this list that was as brutal as this one was. 'Reign In Blood'? 'Vulgar Display Of Power'? This is shit that'll kick your head in. And, y'know, as such it **can** get a **little** tiring towards the end (most people wouldn't be able to be **that angry** for nearly an hour) ... but when it's goes off, it goes off **hard**. As far as nu metal goes, I wouldn't put it up there with the best of the best, such as Linkin Park — though Slipknot seem to be in the upper echelon nonetheless. And in the general realm of brutal, crushing metal, it's a damn good time. They heartily have my approval. I mean, I'd never ask anyone to completely turn off their brain and not think about what they're listening to, but as long as you can gel with the energy and the anger, I think you'll have a good time. You have my word for it. (And I won't hold it against this album that it did, by some degrees of separation, lead to Corey Taylor appearing in that gawdawful Nostalgia Critic 'The Wall' video. Ain't its fault! But darn if I didn't spend a moment considering it anyway.)

Of all of the recognizable nu metal acts, Slipknot seems to be the one that's aged the most gracefully. Solid 4 Stars.

What the fuck do you rate that? I dunno, I guess a 4.5 bumped up to a 5? Maybe? That’s my first instinct, anyway. Don’t get me wrong; if we’re going entirely off of musical proficiency here, this would probably be at a 3, but if you’re coming to an album like this looking for musical proficiency on the lines of a Duke Ellington or a Stevie Wonder, then go somewhere else. Fuck off, even. This is an album made to capture a visceral sense of frustration & rage rooted in some kind of deep-seated, pent-up aggressive depression. Corey Taylor’s not here to serenade you with a vocal melody, he’s here to fucking scream in your face, and you just have to sit there and listen to him, and there’s not a goddamn thing you can do about it. If you’re so inclined to agree with what he’s saying, or at least, you choose to sit down, engage with & understand him to the point of feeling his frustration at a palpable level, then congratulations: you’re probably going to like this album as a 50-minute audio rage room to let loose in & watch a man become suicidally feral, screaming at the top of his lungs the vast majority of the time, with a wailing guitar that feels like an earthquake in your ears, the most mind-numbing percussion you’ve heard in your life moving at 100 miles an hour, & a sense of perverse liberation from a deep dark place that most human beings’ brains will never sink to. I think that’s where I’m at with it, because for whatever god damn reason, I found myself really fucking enjoying this. I can’t write anything about individual tracks here; I was barely paying attention to the lyrics as they were. I caught glimpses of lines, and caught a few of them in my ears, but this is an album that you’re meant to feel as opposed to comprehend. I’m not even sure this album would be enhanced with the lyrics, since there’s definitely a few over the top stinkers of cheesy lines, even for 1999. I think I felt this album the way it was intended, and while I am exaggerating that sense of “perverse liberation” just a bit (I’m assuming a good chunk of this album is intentionally over the top), I think there’s enough of a nugget of truth to the frustrations laid out on this album & those suicidal, self-harming tendencies, that the energy present on this album can’t really be faked, at least not that much. I can understand why this would’ve been worrying to a number of people in 1999, and why today’s more empathetic tendencies look back on this phase of music as an angsty regret… but I’ll be honest, I think letting that frustration out like this might be more of a necessity than we realize. That might be why I enjoyed it a lot, as a sort of vicarious release of stress, even without any of those tendencies in my brain (and I pray I never go that deep). Either that, or I just really liked his percussion a lot. Overall, you just have to hear it & feel it. It’s not for everyone, and I’m sure at an earlier point in this list, I would’ve dismissed it as trite, overblown nonsense that’s far too edgy for its own good. As a visceral feeling expressed in sound, however, I think it captures the vibe it’s going for really, really well, even if it’s over the top to the point of parody on a handful of tracks. Ignore the lyrics, ignore the repetition; just give space for all of that mildly ear-piercing overblown soundscape & their screaming vocals. If you give it space, and let yourself really sit in it & digest it, I think there’s something here. If you can’t feel it & give this a 1 or a 2, then that’s fine. If you can feel it, I think the floor here is a 3 (it does get just a little overplayed by the last 2-3 tracks), and the ceiling could arguably be a 10, under the most extreme of circumstances. (Maybe seek help at that point though.) For my level of enjoyment, I’m at a 4.5 bumped up to a 5. It’s worth being on the list.

Bon, je vois que le destin me force la main. Puisque je suis un homme intègre, je déclare que mon crime sera… *son d’une roue de fortune qui spin*…D’ASSASSINER ROBERT DIMERY

NuMetal champions of the 90s along with Limp Bizkit but just not my cup of tea.

Slipknot are loud, raucous and moody, This record pushed the heavy metal genre and has merit among fans. I know people who love this, but my appreciation would be restricted to live performance or perhaps halloween for the mood.

Can I suggest some therapy to reduce the self entitlement??

Chill out dude. Still fun whilst listening at the gym

Just bad. All yelling and mash noise.

i genuinely hated this

Eff that noise

Slipknot's self-titled album is resolutely simple and uncomplicated - angry, raw and with a lot of drums. Good for what it is ("hate" fuelled metal), but not good if you don't enjoy this type of music.

I'd never listened all the way through a Slipknot album before. I still haven't. It started out okay and I actually liked a few songs, but that got so old, so fast.

Noisy, obnoxious. Great drumming, though.

Angsty white boy metal does not hold up to the modern day. With that said its nostalgic to me and its fun to rage out sometimes. 4/5

Mostly lame edgelord shit for 14 year old boys.

When done well, the energy of heavy metal it's awesome, if there is a gimmick, it's generally not so.