Saturday, October 10, 2009
I won't be using this one no more
I haven't posting for awhile in fact for months!! In case you didn't notice I won't be using Blogger anymore for some reason because I've been moving on to better blogging!! Tumblr should be the right for anyone!! There's lots of reasons why it's better than this!! So no more BLOGGER for me!!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Metaltown: MJ Tribute - "Beat It"
In tribute to Michael Jackson, Slipknot played the song Beat It as their outro instead of 'Til We Die. You can hear the song at the end of the video, which can be viewed below.
Slipknot - 10 Year Anniversary
[Slipknot 10 Year Anniversary]
10 years ago the debut album from the 9 piece band from Des Moines had its premiere. Slipknot went on their first real tour. They went on OzzFest and blew everyone away.
10 years ago the self-titled Slipknot album was something probably no body expected to hear, and Slipknot at that time was probably a band no body expected to see. Many people made fun of the band, of the way they looked, with all these masks and jumpsuits.
But Slipknot never cared. They said "Fuck You" and stayed true to themselves, stayed true to the music. Many things were against them. They were (and still are) a nine piece band from Des Moines, IA, with masks, playing brutal music. There were many people who said that the band won't survive, but after 10 years Slipknot is as strong, if not stronger, as they were back in '99.
June 29, 1999... That was the day that changed the music world. Well, actually the world was never the same after Slipknot's first show at OzzFest in West Palm Beach. People could witness the energy and complete insanity when Slipknot performed live. A month after Slipknot's first OzzFest show the self-titled album, a 15 song disasterpiece, had its premiere.
During these 10 years Slipknot infected many people, who changed into maggots. The real maggots are still with the band, and Slipknot continues their plan. And the plan is to infect as many people as possible. Infect them with the sickness. That's Slipknot.
10 years ago Slipknot changed everything. After that nothing was the same. And still nothing is the same. And nothing will ever be the same again.
Nothing...
10 years ago the debut album from the 9 piece band from Des Moines had its premiere. Slipknot went on their first real tour. They went on OzzFest and blew everyone away.
10 years ago the self-titled Slipknot album was something probably no body expected to hear, and Slipknot at that time was probably a band no body expected to see. Many people made fun of the band, of the way they looked, with all these masks and jumpsuits.
But Slipknot never cared. They said "Fuck You" and stayed true to themselves, stayed true to the music. Many things were against them. They were (and still are) a nine piece band from Des Moines, IA, with masks, playing brutal music. There were many people who said that the band won't survive, but after 10 years Slipknot is as strong, if not stronger, as they were back in '99.
June 29, 1999... That was the day that changed the music world. Well, actually the world was never the same after Slipknot's first show at OzzFest in West Palm Beach. People could witness the energy and complete insanity when Slipknot performed live. A month after Slipknot's first OzzFest show the self-titled album, a 15 song disasterpiece, had its premiere.
During these 10 years Slipknot infected many people, who changed into maggots. The real maggots are still with the band, and Slipknot continues their plan. And the plan is to infect as many people as possible. Infect them with the sickness. That's Slipknot.
10 years ago Slipknot changed everything. After that nothing was the same. And still nothing is the same. And nothing will ever be the same again.
Nothing...
Metal Hammer: Albums Of The Decade - Slipknot Vol. 3
Albums Of The Decade: Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
Once a week on Metal Hammer, we’ll be picking one of the best albums of the decade and lavishing you with the story behind the record, related videos and links. To kickstart the series, we’re taking a look at Slipknot’s landmark modern metal masterpiece, ‘Vol.3: (The Subliminal Verses).
Coming off of the back of the ‘Iowa’ album, Slipknot had been painted as a band in disarray. At the risk of sounding a wee bit on the cheesy side, the press were painting them out as a band at war.
It’s well documented that the band were growing apart as people, interviews on the ‘Iowa’ tour had members firing pot-shots at each other from every angle and when Joey Jordison and Corey Taylor began to enjoy massive success with their side-project bands The Murderdolls and Stone Sour respectively, the future looked bleak for the 18-legged Des Moines noise machine.
With Corey Taylor talking about Stone Sour having a longer shelf-life than Slipknot and his drinking spiralling to an astonishing level, the band moved into Rick Rubin’s famed recording studio, The Mansion, to work with the bearded legend himself on the band’s third outing. With Rubin’s production technique being to leave a band for days and some times weeks at a time to hammer out their best material amongst themselves, this decision was a risk that could have ended the band for good.
Instead, Slipknot created a record that still stands as one of the very best metal releases of this decade.
While it was expected that the ‘Knot would tear each other limb from limb and many were already ringing the band’s death knell, they hammered out their differences, solidified as a unit and wrote an album that is considered by many the best of their career. Whether it was intended or not, Rubin’s alleged lack of participation inadvertently contributed to this finished product massively whilst the band took their melodic leanings to heights that it can be argued that no other metal act have touched in the noughties.
Did Taylor’s time in the more melodic-leaning Stone Sour contribute to this? It could definitely be argued so. The most impressive thing about ‘Vol. 3′ is that there’s so many great vocal lines without the band having to play down any of their trademark ferocity.
Want evidence of this combo? Listen to the rabid crowd at Download roaring ‘Clau-stro-pho-bic!’ and ‘cat-o-stro-phic!’ in ‘Before I Forget‘ while going seven shades of ape-shit. Indeed, when Slipknot released their self-titled record in ‘99, we never thought that they could top ‘Wait And Bleed’ for an anthem. The intro to ‘Duality’ at Download this year tells you how wrong we were. Evidence of this combination of beauty and brutality? Listen to 80,000 people screaming “nothing is what it seems!” from the same performance.
Slipknot also made a mockery of some of the accusations levelled at them prior to the release of ‘Vol.3′. ‘Vermillion Pt. 2′ was a haunting acoustic track that recalled Alice In Chains’ best acoustic moments whilst establishing Corey Taylor as one of the finest rock vocalists of his generation. Interestingly, ‘Vol. 3′ was also the first Slipknot record to not carry a ‘Parental Advisory’ sticker as Taylor wanted to dispell any preconception that his lyrics relied on swearing for shock-factor.
Quite simply, this is about as perfect as modern metal gets. The heaviest band to ever bring the mainstream to them, this is Slipknot’s finest hour.
Once a week on Metal Hammer, we’ll be picking one of the best albums of the decade and lavishing you with the story behind the record, related videos and links. To kickstart the series, we’re taking a look at Slipknot’s landmark modern metal masterpiece, ‘Vol.3: (The Subliminal Verses).Coming off of the back of the ‘Iowa’ album, Slipknot had been painted as a band in disarray. At the risk of sounding a wee bit on the cheesy side, the press were painting them out as a band at war.
It’s well documented that the band were growing apart as people, interviews on the ‘Iowa’ tour had members firing pot-shots at each other from every angle and when Joey Jordison and Corey Taylor began to enjoy massive success with their side-project bands The Murderdolls and Stone Sour respectively, the future looked bleak for the 18-legged Des Moines noise machine.
With Corey Taylor talking about Stone Sour having a longer shelf-life than Slipknot and his drinking spiralling to an astonishing level, the band moved into Rick Rubin’s famed recording studio, The Mansion, to work with the bearded legend himself on the band’s third outing. With Rubin’s production technique being to leave a band for days and some times weeks at a time to hammer out their best material amongst themselves, this decision was a risk that could have ended the band for good.
Instead, Slipknot created a record that still stands as one of the very best metal releases of this decade.
While it was expected that the ‘Knot would tear each other limb from limb and many were already ringing the band’s death knell, they hammered out their differences, solidified as a unit and wrote an album that is considered by many the best of their career. Whether it was intended or not, Rubin’s alleged lack of participation inadvertently contributed to this finished product massively whilst the band took their melodic leanings to heights that it can be argued that no other metal act have touched in the noughties.
Did Taylor’s time in the more melodic-leaning Stone Sour contribute to this? It could definitely be argued so. The most impressive thing about ‘Vol. 3′ is that there’s so many great vocal lines without the band having to play down any of their trademark ferocity.
Want evidence of this combo? Listen to the rabid crowd at Download roaring ‘Clau-stro-pho-bic!’ and ‘cat-o-stro-phic!’ in ‘Before I Forget‘ while going seven shades of ape-shit. Indeed, when Slipknot released their self-titled record in ‘99, we never thought that they could top ‘Wait And Bleed’ for an anthem. The intro to ‘Duality’ at Download this year tells you how wrong we were. Evidence of this combination of beauty and brutality? Listen to 80,000 people screaming “nothing is what it seems!” from the same performance.
Slipknot also made a mockery of some of the accusations levelled at them prior to the release of ‘Vol.3′. ‘Vermillion Pt. 2′ was a haunting acoustic track that recalled Alice In Chains’ best acoustic moments whilst establishing Corey Taylor as one of the finest rock vocalists of his generation. Interestingly, ‘Vol. 3′ was also the first Slipknot record to not carry a ‘Parental Advisory’ sticker as Taylor wanted to dispell any preconception that his lyrics relied on swearing for shock-factor.
Quite simply, this is about as perfect as modern metal gets. The heaviest band to ever bring the mainstream to them, this is Slipknot’s finest hour.
Slipknot Planning Halloween-themed Tour For All
This is a piece of news that was posted on 105.7 The Point on May 20, 2009. You can read the news below.
Slipknot will spend most of the summer on the European festival circuit, but the Iowa-based group tentatively plans one more North American run before closing the books on their 2008 album, All Hope Is Gone. Singer Corey Taylor gave us some hints about what the band has in store: "The people who put together the Mayhem festival are talking about doing a short little festival that is horror-themed. The people who are involved in it kind of view that genre the way we do, you know. We tend to go more for the psychological than for the shock, you know, the schlock, really. So we're kind of putting it together as just a kind of little cherry on the top of this crazy year-and-a-half."
Taylor will play a few solo shows before Slipknot heads to Europe.
The vocalist and his other band, Stone Sour, will head into the studio later this year to begin work on a new record.
Slipknot will spend most of the summer on the European festival circuit, but the Iowa-based group tentatively plans one more North American run before closing the books on their 2008 album, All Hope Is Gone. Singer Corey Taylor gave us some hints about what the band has in store: "The people who put together the Mayhem festival are talking about doing a short little festival that is horror-themed. The people who are involved in it kind of view that genre the way we do, you know. We tend to go more for the psychological than for the shock, you know, the schlock, really. So we're kind of putting it together as just a kind of little cherry on the top of this crazy year-and-a-half."
Taylor will play a few solo shows before Slipknot heads to Europe.
The vocalist and his other band, Stone Sour, will head into the studio later this year to begin work on a new record.
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