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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.
- Slipknot (1999) Has there ever been a more perfect opening to any album in the history of metal as the five-song run that kicks off Slipknot’s self-titled Roadrunner Records debut?
- Iowa (2001) Comfortably the heaviest album that has ever topped the UK album chart, Iowa is a genuine one-off. Released in an era when it seemed the best way for a band to achieve commercial success in a nu-metal dominated world was to make themselves seem poppier, cuddlier, cartoonish and maybe chuck an 80’s cover in there as well, Slipknot became the ugliest band on the planet.
- We Are Not Your Kind (2019) You’d be forgiven for believing that, for all their continued success and continually great live shows, Slipknot were never going to scale the heights of their earliest material as their sixth album came over the horizon at the start of 2019.
- Vol.3: The Subliminal Verses (2004) It’s not easy having to follow up two landmark albums, but that’s the position Slipknot found themselves in heading in to the recording of their third effort.
- (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?’”
Iowa is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot. Produced by the band and Ross Robinson, it was released on August 28, 2001, by Roadrunner Records. The title derives from the band's home state, Iowa, which members have stated is one of their greatest sources of inspiration. With much anticipation for the album following ...
Iowa Songs Ranked. Iowa is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Slipknot. Released by Roadrunner Records on August 28, 2001, it was produced by Ross Robinson and Slipknot. The title derives from the band’s home state, Iowa, which members have stated is one of their greatest sources of inspiration.
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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.
