Eh Slipknot I dont really know what to think of them. I like two of their songs one is duialty and the other one is ummm it gose "You cant take my soul away from me," or something Im not sure.

Sure some of their fans are bleeding idiots Aka the mall goths as someone said before, but you cant hate a band because of their fans.

I consider them nu-metal though, but not the horrible kind like limp bisket and linkion park and them.

Oh and here is a qustion for the slipknot fans here what do those two guys that sort of do nothing do? *not saying they dont do anything I just was wondering cause they dont play insterments and all the live shots of them I have seen they are just sorta standing there*

saying "what do the 2 guys that do nothin, what do they do?" doesnt help anyone.
they all do something just watch a music video.
secondly what kind of bass does paul play? i know its a Warwick but what kind of warwick. email me so i dont have to search throught the thread. [email]randy_rhoads_666@hotmail.com[/email]

"Those two guys" are percussionists. They actually greatly contribute to the percussive sound of the band, which is prominent and very definitive in their sound. While the drummer does the fast blast-beat and cymbol-crashing stuff, the two percussionists add a very rhythymic aspect to it, correlating with the bass for that heavy thunderous percussive force that locks in with the guitars. So, obviously, they are not just "doing nothing"

[QUOTE=Ozzman_666]saying "what do the 2 guys that do nothin, what do they do?" doesnt help anyone.
they all do something just watch a music video.
secondly what kind of bass does paul play? i know its a Warwick but what kind of warwick. email me so i dont have to search throught the thread. [email]randy_rhoads_666@hotmail.com[/email][/QUOTE]

You're not Randy Rhoads, why is your e-mail stating that you are? If your name really is Randy Rhoads then ignore this and if it is really not then f uck you

First off, the Vermilion video is awesome. Reminds me of something Tool would've done. The mask-over-mask thing was cool, too bad Craig didn't do it too...

Secondly, the 'two guys standing around' being referred to, are most likely not Chris and Shawn, their extra drummers, but rather Craig and Sid, their sample/media, and now with Vol 3, keyboard guy...and Sid, their DJ. Honestly, I thought they were useless too, but Volume 3 shows what they can really do.

Purity is Sid's best song.

Yeah, so I've heard.

I've never heard Purity, so I can't tell.

But I like his work on "The Nameless" alot...and the intro to "Eyeless" is pretty cool.

Slipknot doesn't have swearing on their new cd, just so it can be more "radio friendly". If thats true, then Slipknot are sellouts.

[QUOTE=libertine2020]You're not Randy Rhoads, why is your e-mail stating that you are? If your name really is Randy Rhoads then ignore this and if it is really not then f uck you[/QUOTE]
hmm, maybe he likes randy rhoades. Have you ever thought about that? Quit being a douche, douche. :lol: :lol:

1.Vermillion
2.Left Behind
3.Duality
4.Wait And Bleed
5.Heretic Anthem


thats all i can think of right now im like half awake drinkin soda and listenin to music:)

[QUOTE=CreepingBlack]Slipknot doesn't have swearing on their new cd, just so it can be more "radio friendly". If thats true, then Slipknot are sellouts.[/QUOTE]


No.I dont think that was the reason.They have matured and they wanted this album to show it.They are all around 30 years old now.They are old to be writing lyrics like "F*ck it all, f*ck this world" or "People=Sh*t".I think they realized it.Besides that this was the most important album of their career.This could be their farewell or their landmark album that will secure a few more years in their career.A curse free album has more longevity with the listener than an album with f*cks and sh*ts all over it.

[QUOTE=relliK]No.I dont think that was the reason.They have matured and they wanted this album to show it.They are all around 30 years old now.They are old to be writing lyrics like "F*ck it all, f*ck this world" or "People=Sh*t".I think they realized it.Besides that this was the most important album of their career.This could be their farewell or their landmark album that will secure a few more years in their career.A curse free album has more longevity with the listener than an album with f*cks and sh*ts all over it.[/QUOTE]

That's a stupid argument.

There are plenty of metal bands older than them and still writing much more brutal lyrics. You make it seem like in the space between the S/T and Vol 3 they had an epiphany...no, they just decided to make a soft album, is all. You're never too old to write "fvck."

Not to mention, if they purposely didn't curse on the album, after Corey doing his ****edest to portray himself as hardcore, then yeah, that would be called selling out.

Not that I care either way, I'm just arguing from an unbiased position. I liked MFKR and about half of the S/T, but thats all.

Everyone is always bashing the new cd but I feel that it is their best to date. The musicianship is much better, and while all the songs aren't heavy there are still songs as heavy as on Iowa and the s/t on it. To me this is their most complete cd, and the songs aren't really radio freindly, they just have choruses that are sung,and the acoustic songs are dark and depressing which isn't really what is normally played on the radio(although I could be wrong because I don't listen to the radio often and when I do its when the local metal show is on). To me they didn't sell out because they did something that no one thought they would or could, they made a cd with a little less edge and a lot more substance, selling out would be going back and doing another cd like the s/t because thats what got them their fame and everything so doing that would show they just want more fame and money.

[QUOTE=Paranoidd]That's a stupid argument.

There are plenty of metal bands older than them and still writing much more brutal lyrics. You make it seem like in the space between the S/T and Vol 3 they had an epiphany...no, they just decided to make a soft album, is all. You're never too old to write "fvck."

Not to mention, if they purposely didn't curse on the album, after Corey doing his ****edest to portray himself as hardcore, then yeah, that would be called selling out.

Not that I care either way, I'm just arguing from an unbiased position. I liked MFKR and about half of the S/T, but thats all.[/QUOTE]

Right, but Slipknot already built a reputation for being angsy and cursing all the time.A title Im sure they dont want.The only way to eliminate that is by removing all cursing.Slipknot matured, sure its only been 5 years, but I read interviews from 99 and I read interviews from now and I see they arent the trash talking egomaniacs they used to be.And as I said, they did it to acheive longevity.s/t and Iowa will only stay with the fans through their teens and then they grow out of them due to their immature lyrics.Vol.3 on the other hand, may have a longer run amoung them.

I think about the band live.They still do the S/T And Iowa songs live,still have F*ck you in them and the "cursing". And they are still as hard just not on this album.They got way more creative. If you listen to Iowa its alot heavier. Listen to Vol:3 Way more creative. And wy does it matter? They are still Slipknot Right? If that made any sense

I've been a fan of slipknot since ".mate.feed.kill.repead." And i've heard several interviews of them saying how ****ed up they are ect. But seems like they realized people don't even need to hear that, what do they care what you think. They said before vol. 3 came out that it was the best album they ever did. Why do they need anyones approval, hell I wouldn't give a **** either.

Yeah. Slipknot. You just wrote what i tried to. I didn't know how to put it into words.

Slipknot is cool for their sheer brutality, but 3 didnt do it for me. I was stoked to hear that Mick was gunna play solos, but then I heard them. Not impressed, sloppy and sometimes just sounded like just a bunch of notes just thrown together. Duality and Pulse are cool tho.

1 People=S*#t
2 Diluted
3 Eeyore
4 My plague
5 Surfacing
6 Heretic Anthem
7 Wait and bleed
8 Spit it out
10 Duality
11 (SIC)
12 Left Behind
13 Pulse of the maggots
14 Vermillion Part 2
15 Snap
16 The Nameless
17 Before I Forget
18 no Life
19 Welcome
20 Vermillion Part 1

In order

Slipknot built a reputation on swearing out the as[color=white]s[/color], and writing short, heavy songs. I need to find the magazine again, but I read an interview with Joey about the new album, and he commented on the lack of swearing...something to the effect that it wasn't necessary, or something, I don't remember.

Honestly, who cares if they don't swear in this album? If you actually pay attention to the lyrics, these are the best lyrics they have ever written. Not angsty? Vermilion, 1 and 2 are full of it, but they are written in a far better way than typical Linkin Park or Korn angst.

I do agree with Paranoidd in the sense that you're never 'too old' to be swearing or writing brutal lyrics...but I do disagree in the sense that I think they did have an epiphany. Namely, they got rid of Ross Robinson, and got a producer who let them do what THEY wanted to do.

Lyrics do not make an album soft or hard. If Linkin Park started swearing in their next album, that would not make them any harder than they already are (or are not). Slipknot forgoing songs like "People = Sh[color=white]i[/color]t" for songs like "Vermilion" is not a bad thing, and it does not make them any less hard than they were before Volume 3 came out. Period.

[QUOTE=Kage]"Those two guys" are percussionists. They actually greatly contribute to the percussive sound of the band, which is prominent and very definitive in their sound. While the drummer does the fast blast-beat and cymbol-crashing stuff, the two percussionists add a very rhythymic aspect to it, correlating with the bass for that heavy thunderous percussive force that locks in with the guitars. So, obviously, they are not just "doing nothing"[/QUOTE]


K thanks I just have seen pics of them live and they are just sorta standing on stage so I didnt really know what to think.

1. Purity
2. Gently
3. Spit it out
4. Diluted
5. Vermillion

anyway, I think in a global point of view the 3rd cd is as good as the s/t. the worst full lenght album is iowa.
I kind of got sick of hearing "F*CK IT ALL F*CK THIS WORLD" over and over again...its cool too have one or two songs like that but not 54059 cds with just that...its plain stupid, im glad they have realized that in time, and made an exelent cd.

worst slipknot songs.

1.my plague
2.pulse of the maggots
3.left behind
4.surfacing

The Blister Exists,Three Nil, Welcome, and Opium of the People have the same amount of anger as anything before but in a much more grown up manner.Vermilion pt.1 and 2, The Nameless(which is actually Purity pt.2), and the Virus of Life have the same themes that Prosthetics, Purity, Iowa, and Everything Ends.They are songs about psychotic obsession delivered in a much more dignified manner.Their lyrics are still as dark as they have been.Vermilion pt.2 is a dichotamy of brutal and beautiful.On one side its a beautiful acoustic song that comes across as a ballad, but on the other its a dark song about wanting to kill someone your obsessed with.Thats what makes this album pretty cool.That kind of stuff is all over the album.My rant is done.

I like them because of their music, all of it.

whats up with craig? i heard he isnt performing in thier next few concerts or something.

No, I saw them on Friday and Craig wasn't there.

Corey said he was having surgery.

Has anyone does a cover of this song?
I'd be intrested in hearing it. But Not ones with vocals, cause lets face it, coreys vocals rule over that ****, no one could do justise and it would be ruined..
Just an instrumental version of it all instruments drums guitar, etc. That would be killer.

Its just a rock out beat everyone you see type of song.

^ what song??

^^ sic

errr, im a dumbass, i got all confused cause i didn't know there was an offical slipknot thread, and was told to post in here...sorry

Anyways, my above post is referring to the song ,(sic), instrumental cover song, no vocals.

[QUOTE=The JoZ]Yeah, so I've heard.

I've never heard Purity, so I can't tell.

But I like his work on "The Nameless" alot...and the intro to "Eyeless" is pretty cool.[/QUOTE]

im pretty sure thats guitar

The intro to Eyeless is Sid.

First off, the intro to "Eeyore" is guitar. The intro to "Eyeless", which is a different song, is most definetly Sid.

Secondly, Craig had to go back to Iowa for "emergency dental surgery". Jim was quoted as saying that Craig could not eat or sleep right, and was completely miserable, so he saw a doctor, and they said he needed to come back to the states.

Sid is handling all or most of Craig's parts until he comes back.

Yeah.I find it funny how he went all the way to the US for dental surgery.No offense to Europeans or anything, but some of you got some bad teeth.

Well, that's probably not why he came back.

He probably came back cause he has an established physician, and felt more comfortable here. If you needed some sort of surgery, you'd want to do it as close to home as was possible too...or at least in your home country.

where can i get purity?

SLIPKNOT RULES!!!!!!

[QUOTE=The JoZ]Well, that's probably not why he came back.

He probably came back cause he has an established physician, and felt more comfortable here. If you needed some sort of surgery, you'd want to do it as close to home as was possible too...or at least in your home country.[/QUOTE]

Well actually it was because he was told he needed surgery when he had it checked out in Europe.He came back to the States hoping to get better news.He got the same thing tho.

It would suck when he came back he thought that the band didn't need him since Sid could cover for him and left. But thats all out of proportion.

[QUOTE=relliK]Well actually it was because he was told he needed surgery when he had it checked out in Europe.He came back to the States hoping to get better news.He got the same thing tho.[/QUOTE]

Be that as it may, the whole comfort level thing probably had some factor in it as well.

[quote]It would suck when he came back he thought that the band didn't need him since Sid could cover for him and left. But thats all out of proportion.[/quote]

The band, Jim specifically, have talked about how much they miss Craig already, so I don't think he's getting the boot anytime soon.

They have said that once 1 member leaves, Slipknot is over.Anyway, have any of you heard about Joey playing with Satyricon on their upcoming US tour?Apparently their drummer couldnt get into the US.