Sunday, September 26, 2010

some of about SLIPKNOT...



Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1995. The band was founded by percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray, after several line-up changes in their early days the band consisted of nine members for the greater part of their tenure—Sid Wilson, Paul Gray, Joey Jordison, Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor. However, the death of Paul Gray on May 24, 2010 left the band with only eight remaining members. The future of Slipknot is currently unclear due to their current hiatus and reluctance to comment on the situation.

Slipknot are known largely by their attention-grabbing image, aggressive music style and their energetic and chaotic live shows. The band had somewhat of a meteoric rise to success following the release of their self-titled debut album in 1999. The 2001 follow-up album Iowafurther increased the band's popularity. After breaking for their first hiatus, Slipknot returned in 2004 with Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)and once again in 2008 with their fourth album All Hope Is Gone, which debuted at the top spot on the Billboard 200 charts. The band has also released one live album and three DVDs, with their upcoming fourth DVD entitled (sic)nesses due for release on September 28, 2010. As of May 2010 Slipknot has sold over 14 million records worldwide.

All Hope Is Gone, Gray's death and third hiatus (2008–present)


This fourth album by the band Slipknot continues this amazing streak of records that this band has come out with and will sure to please all of the bands followers. Lyrically I noticed that this band used themes like from most metal bands of anger,disaffection and obsession particularly about the music industry which also seems to be common with there previous work also. This band also continues there vicious streak when it comes to there music like their brutal edge towards how they play there songs and also some great heavy sounding guitar solos as well. One song I like in particularly on this album is psychosocial which for me is very reminiscent of there song before i forget and has a very fun good tempo and hard rocking sound ecspacally with the guitar/drum breakdown that will have you floored and sound like nothing you ever heard from this band before. One thing I also love about this album is that it continues the bands dark and ominous tone of there previous work which I liked so much and is also at the same time weird and experimental which I also love. It was also nice to see that this was a really well received album from most music critics who praised it across the board and seeing as how most critics don't appreciate heavy metal or hard rock records it was a nice surprise to see. And I couldn't be happier then to see that the band reached the billboard 200 for the first time seeing how they continue to make great rock records and never really had this mainstream of success. I would really like to say finally to that the album is so heavy and aggressive that it reminds me of my favorite band Metallica's earlier work like Master of Puppets or Ride the Lighting which is huge praise considering that I think the world of Metallica and also consider them to be the best heavy metal band ever. So in closing if your looking for album that will really rock your socks off and get you headbanging like crazy I suggest you go and try out this album because you wont be disappointed.


Current members band...





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