SLIPKNOT - stub review added 5th December 2008
Album Review: Slipknot (Self Titled) (1999)
For fans of: alternative metal... and musicians in fancy dress
Debut self-titled release from those lairy, slightly bonkers Iowa residents. The music is angry, the costumes are twisted and the hype is monumental.
With a few decent(ish) tracks amongst a wall of noise, broken rhythms and shouting, this has little to do with music and a lot to do with appealing to disaffected youths and p*ssing off everyone else. 'Wait And Bleed', 'Surfacing' and 'Spit It Out' are good enough but that's about it. The rubbery, over-gained guitars sound terrible and, even with a superb percussion section, Corey Taylor's skin-peeling vocals don't have a chance to save the album.
Not an easy listen, Slipknot by Slipknot is at best a pile of self indulgent twaddle with a few flashes of genius. A sign of the good things to come? Maybe. Good in itself? Nope, not at all.
Check out... The newer version of this album. The album was reprinted with an altered track list due to 'legal issues'.
Track List:
1. 742617000027
2. (Sic)
3. Eyeless
4. Wait and bleed
5. Surfacing
6. Spit it out
7. Tattered and torn
8. Frail Limb Nursery
9. Purity
10. Liberate
11. Prosthetics
12. No Life
13. Diluted
14. Only One
15. Scissors
Label: Roadrunner Records
Artist's websites: Slipknot , MySpace
