Slipknot (Metal)

If you're gonna work the potentially cheesy genre of rapcore, the least you can do is play loud. At their best, Slipknot go way beyond that, tossing Slayer, hardcore punk, Public Enemy and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre into the mix, with a mania for volume. We're talking riffs on top of riffs. Just skip the slow ones.

On previous albums, the masked maulers of Slipknot took speed metal to new extremes,
with songs that sounded like a threshing machine devouring a military drum corps. Now the
Iowan nonet has married a little beauty to its beast, with schizophrenic results that are best
summed up by the line "The only thing I ever really loved was hate." Produced by Rick
Rubin, Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses) experiments with even newer extremes, w... More >