Album Rating: 3.6

Yep, this is pretty good

I have to agree that Solway Firth is the best thing they've done in years

Album Rating: 1.5

This band still specialise in the worst ‘even sweeter than Linkin Park’ choruses



Immediately makes them sound like music for tweens.



Every chorus just sounds like ‘I have —— such a ——preeeettyy voice’. Sound weedier than Bieber.



So unfortunately Slipknot are still terrible despite some of the music being alright

Album Rating: 3.5

Not surprised you hate this, doof haha.

Haha someone has to poop the party. It's a tough job, but in a way it needs to be done.

Album Rating: 4.5

can't believe they did it

Doof, you old fart lol

(Listening now and I know exactly what you mean though)

Album Rating: 3.5

When that bouncy verse riff kicks in on Nero Forte, classic Slipknot m/

The Oprhan chorus already is one of the GOAT Slipknot choruses.

Album Rating: 4.5

yh felt like listening to before i forget for the first time again pleb

Unsainted pretty catchy tho

Album Rating: 3.5

I've been jamming Slipknot a lot since the announcement of this album, good times.

Album Rating: 1.5

I grew up with nu metal (Korn was my favourite album of all time in ‘95, then ‘Aenima’ the next year) - I bought ‘Antichrist Superstar’ the day it came out too.



Sad for slipknot is when they came out I was about 18 or 19 and as they were so obviously a kiddie marketed band I was disgusted because I’d taken bands like Korn, Deftones, Fear Factory and Tool so seriously.



Then you had 8 year old ‘worms’ in packs of fives hanging around the shops all with Slipknot t-shirts and it was comical.



This band just aren’t heavy - this album isn’t heavy. It’s very frothy and obviously it’s just for a laugh and the benjamins, very formulated even now.



What I will give them is they soundtracked one of my greatest festival experiences when they played while a huge water bottle fight about 1000 people strong broke out on the slopes of the Milton Keynes bowl. Was one of the most pure fun moments of my early adult life, fucking hilarious, like Braveheart...just with plastic bottles.



Band are silly shit

I don't really consider myself a "benjamin" when it comes to metal and I still highly enjoy this band. So I kinda think this is somewhat overgeneralizing things.

Album Rating: 4.5

yh they're basically metal devo

Album Rating: 1.5

Clear as day in ‘99. Only the 13 and unders listened to this and if they liked the band then they got the t-shirt - it was like a tween goth invasion.



The benjamins? This bunch really wanted to get rich - that was also obvious and fair play to them, the marketing and branding side of things was really intense. Like Wu-Tang intense - they learnt a bit from hip hop. Like I said you had to get the t-shirt to belong.

Album Rating: 4.5

good old days

Album Rating: 4.5

I definitely like this better than their last album by a large margin.

Album Rating: 1.5

They were the ultimate ‘put the t-shirt on Santa’s list - have I been a good little worm?’ band



I’d just finished being a kid so I understood the appeal...but I was sort of relieved I hadn’t bought into something so kiddie targeted. I just managed to dodge slipknot and linkin Park .



I did get snared by limp bizkit so that shows even Doof was a kerrang worshipping teen back in 97

When I started listening to this band (as well as Korn, Deftones, Tool, Fear Factory, etc...) I was already listening to Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Motörhead...
I have familial ties with bikers and their listening diet mostly consisted of classic rock, blues rock and classic metal so one of them took me to the my first Motörhead gig when I was 13.

Bands like Slipknot on the other hand was were the kids my age back then were listening to, so naturally I picked them up as well. It was bit of a combination of both for me.

When I saw Slipknot live a month ago the crowd was pretty diverse: goth tweens, old school looking metalheads, bros, middle aged dads who barely looked metal lol, etc...

Album Rating: 1.5

‘middle aged dads who barely looked metal’ - yay, I would have been accepted



As a 7 year old kid Guns n Roses were the first ‘loud’ band.



My metal started couple of years later with commercial thrash so Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer were huge for me. Nu metal came later



Sabbath, Zeppelin and some other classic hard rock/heavy metal stuff I also was into.