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Slipknot - 2019 - We Are Not Your Kind [FLAC]
Artist: Slipknot
Title: We Are Not Your Kind
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Producer: Greg Fidelman
Release Date: August 9, 2019
Label: Roadrunner Records
Catalog: NA
Barcode: NA
Genre: Rock, Heavy Metal, Nu-Metal, Alternative Metal, Groove Metal
Duration: 63:27
Slipknot:
Wikipedia:
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. The band was founded in 1995 by percussionist Shawn Crahan, drummer Joey Jordison and bassist Paul Gray. After several lineup changes in its early years, the band settled on nine members for more than a decade: Crahan, Jordison, Gray, Craig Jones, Mick Thomson, Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson, Chris Fehn, and Jim Root. Gray died on May 24, 2010, and was replaced during 2011–2014 by guitarist Donnie Steele. Jordison left the band due to illness on December 12, 2013. Steele left during the recording sessions for .5: The Gray Chapter. The band found replacements in Alessandro Venturella on bass and Jay Weinberg on drums. After the departure of Jordison, as of December 2013 the only founding member in the current lineup is percussionist Crahan. Fehn left the band due to lawsuit on March 18, 2019.
Slipknot is well known for its attention-grabbing image, aggressive style of music, and energetic and chaotic live shows. The band rapidly rose to success following the release of their eponymous debut album in 1999. The 2001 follow-up album, Iowa, although darker in tone, made the band more popular. After a brief hiatus, Slipknot returned in 2004 with Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), before going on another hiatus and returning in 2008 with its fourth album, All Hope Is Gone, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. After another long hiatus, Slipknot released its fifth studio album, .5: The Gray Chapter, in 2014. Their sixth studio album, We Are Not Your Kind, will be released on August 9, 2019. The band has released two live albums titled 9.0: Live and Day of the Gusano: Live in Mexico, a compilation album titled Antennas to Hell, and five live DVDs. The band has sold 30 million records worldwide.
Guitarist Jim Root said that the album is "the most time we've had to write a record, and work stuff out together" and that "while the industry is moving toward singles, Slipknot wanted to make an album experience, front to back."
We Are Not Your Kind:
Wikipedia:
We Are Not Your Kind is the upcoming sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot. It is scheduled to be released on August 9, 2019, via Roadrunner Records. The album was produced by Greg Fidelman. The lead single, "Unsainted", was released on May 16, 2019, along with its music video. It is the band's first album since the firing of longtime member Chris Fehn. The title of the album is taken from a lyric off the band's standalone single "All Out Life" released on October 31, 2018.
Metal Hammer Review by Adam Rees:
Such is the reverence they've attained in the 20 years since their self-titled debut, there are very few events in our world as fanatically anticipated as a new Slipknot record.
Not that they always live up to the hype. Even the most dedicated maggot would struggle to defend 2008’s All Hope Is Gone or 2014’s .5: The Gray Chapter as enthusiastically as the band’s untouchable opening triumvirate, both being often great but occasionally forgetful.
Few metal acts manage to carry the same youthful vigour and savage intent that definied their initial success, but there’s always been the hope that Slipknot were impervious to the cruel hands of time. In a live setting, when the masks and boiler suits were donned, they still exhuded danger and excitement, but it was starting to diminish on record.
Thankfully not only have recent shows shown that the Iowans still leave destruction in their wake onstage, but the urgent singles, All Out Life and Unsainted, are welcome evidence that the band are more than capable of delivering a rabid clatter of percussion, fiendish riffs, demented scratches and stabs of electronics that still sounds unlike anything else.
The defiant proclamation of the former provided the album with a title, so it’s odd to see it omitted from the final cut, yet its maniacal bluster is evident throughout the album, with the nine members clearly finding plenty of fire and clawing at demons that need exorcising.
But while Red Flag is breathless from beginning to end, each of the album’s other seething blasts are an ominous trip into uncomfortable realms and include a massive vocal from one of, if not the, best singers in our game as shown by Unsainted’s undeniable hook.
Whether it’s when Nero Forte’s lumbering battering meets a creepily angelic chorus, or the militaristic beats and warped squall of effects that strafe Orphan, it seems there are plenty of new ways to tweak the established anthemic Slipknot formula.
As ever, different apparitions lurk behind every corner. Birch Of The Cruel sees a deformed monstrosity lurching and contorting itself out of the nu metal graveyard, the twisted lullaby of My Pain descends into a fog of dystopian synths, while the minimalist Spiders, with its eerie John Carpenter piano, gets more sinister with every listen.
But it’s the more mournful Liar’s Funeral and penultimate Not Long For This World that leave the biggest impact, with Corey Taylor at both his most vulnerable and assured over a tragic tapestry of unsettling synthetic atmosphere and huge cinematic peaks.
Solway Firth’s climactic presence builds through a melée of crashing drums and precision-engineered melodic riffs, and could well be the most dramatic conclusion to a Slipknot album so far.
While many will naturally but unfavourably compare it to the triumphs of yesteryear, We Are Not Your Kind, though far from flawless, can stand on its own merits, being both immediately arresting as well as having enough challenging depth to reveal new surprises with every listen.
Fierce, troubled, confrontational and more often than not bewildering, there’s still no one else like Slipknot.
Tracklist:
01. Insert Coin (1:40)
02. Unsainted (4:21)
03. Birth of the Cruel (4:36)
04. Death Because of Death (1:20)
05. Nero Forte (5:15)
06. Critical Darling (6:26)
07. A Liar's Funeral (5:27)
08. Red Flag (4:12)
09. What's Next (0:54)
10. Spiders (4:04)
11. Orphan (6:01)
12. My Pain (6:48)
13. Not Long for This World (6:36)
14. Solway Firth (5:58)
Personnel:
(#6) Shawn Crahan – custom percussion, backing vocals
(#5) Craig Jones – samples, media, keyboards
(#7) Mick Thomson – lead and rhythm guitars
(#8) Corey Taylor – lead vocals
(#0) Sid Wilson – turntables, keyboards
(#4) Jim Root – lead and rhythm guitars
Alessandro Venturella – bass
Jay Weinberg – drums
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