Tag Archives: Slipknot
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ALBUM REVIEW: Slipknot embraces a new era on ‘We Are Not Your Kind’
Slipknot, “We Are Not Your Kind.” To be fair, no one could expect Slipknot’s sixth album to reach Iowa levels of heavy. Iowa, released in 2001, began with DJ Sid Wilson having a nervous breakdown and ended with frontman Corey Taylor stripping naked and cutting himself with broken glass—a…
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REVIEW: Slipknot, Gojira, Volbeat and Behemoth kick off Knotfest with metallic mayhem
Slipknot performs at Knotfest at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on July 26, 2019. Photos: Alessio Neri. MOUNTAIN VIEW — Back in 1999 it would seem insane to predict that nine jumpsuit-wearing maniacs from Iowa would tour America with Denmark’s groove metal export, French ultra-heavy environmentalists and Poland’s…
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RIFF REWIND’s best songs of 2001: It was time to party, so Andrew W.K. partied hard
They didn’t know it yet, but only Beyonce could pay their auto-mo-bills. We’re still in that dark time between album rock and YouTube. Record company executives had almost all the power to decide what we got to hear. Worse, what they decided we wanted to hear was still boy…
