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- People = Shit. The anthem. The mantra by which all maggots live by. One of the best opening songs by any metal band that hits with such gusto and malice you struggle to recover until the end of the record.
- Disasterpiece. ‘I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound’ is the most violent line to ever feature in an album that reached number one in the UK. Imagine that happening today.
- The Heretic Anthem. Hail Satan! That’s what metalheads are supposed to shout, isn’t it? We all bloody love that big red bloke who lives underground… or maybe it’s Corey Taylor we love.
- My Plague. The song that made Slipknot megastars, partly thanks to its inclusion in Resident Evil but also thanks to its MASSIVE chorus. One of Iowa’s more accessible songs due to the clean vocals, it stills carries that threatening edge like the rest of the record.
- People = Shit. It couldn’t really be anything else, could it? People = Shit is one of Slipknot’s most iconic songs and up there with the best the band have ever put their name to.
- Left Behind. Iowa’s lead single, Left Behind is certainly the most radio-friendly thing on the album, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy-going. Nominated for the 2002 GRAMMY for Best Metal Performance – an award that was eventually won by Tool for Schism – it’s an impressive example of Slipknot’s crossover appeal, as the band take a more melodic approach while retaining all the unbridled fury that characterises their heaviest material.
- Disasterpiece. ‘I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound.’ Yep, someone pissed off Corey Taylor really bad. Using that hatred as the fuel for Disasterpiece’s raging wildfire of aggression, Slipknot are electric here as they lay waste to all who dare cross their path.
- My Plague. My Plague is one of Iowa’s more melodic tracks, but Corey’s lyrics more than make up for that. ‘ Kill you, fuck you, I will never be you’ is the glorious lyrical refrain that most sticks out from a song that, thanks to its inclusion in Resident Evil, set Slipknot on the path to stardom.
It's probably not the heaviest on its own, or the darkest on its own. I listen to a lot of death metal, and Iowa is definitely less heavy than 90% of the subgenre, but a lot of that stuff I wouldn't call really all that dark as the subject matter, while dealing with a lot of brutal themes, can sometimes be done in a fairly over-the-top way ...
Slipknot's Iowa is a fantastic album and that's for many reasons. It's fantastically enjoyable throughout the whole project and it almost never gets boring besides maybe the title track. It includes somr of their best songs such as "People = Bad" and "Left Behind", which I consider both to be perfect songs.
- (515) “This is Sid’s part from People = Shit cut up. He recorded that after his grandfather passed. You can hear it. I mean, it’s so guttural and so emotional.
- People = Shit. “One of the few songs we wrote on the road on the first album. It was something that we used almost like a mantra. So when we wrote it, it was almost like a built-in anthem.”
- Disasterpiece. “Disasterpiece is my favourite one to play live. It’s so heavy, it’s so dark, and I’m very proud of the fact that the first line was voted [somewhere as] the worst lyric of 2001.”
- My Plague. “I had just come up with the vocal melody for the chorus and I had laryngitis. I was gagging to sing it and had no voice. I held up the paper, just mouthing it, and the guys are like, ‘What’s he doing?’”
Sep 20, 2022 · How Slipknot's Iowa changed the face of metal forever. By Mark Hughes. ( Metal Hammer ) last updated 20 September 2022. Slipknot’s second album, Iowa, turned metal on its head – and the nine men who made it into superstars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
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Apr 14, 2013 · Tom Sinclair. It’s an almost unrelentingly brutal disc that, like so much of the nü metal, often seems like a parody of itself. Slipknot’s shtick is to posit themselves as the most violent, depraved, angst-ridden young malcontents on the block — the sickest of the sick. Full Review. 9y.
