Vendetta (2008)Īnother All Hope Is Gone clanger now in the form of Vendetta. Not saying experimentation is the enemy, obviously – the creepy breath of Gehenna on the back of your neck is one of the record’s high points, but Wherein Lies Continue’s ploddy, almost New Orleans riffing just sounds a bit muddled. That aside, Taylor’s saccharine refrain isn’t even Stone Sour-worthy, veering off in an entirely different direction. Gray’s bass is the track’s highlight, slinging so low it threatens to kneecap anyone listening in headphones. The world will never know another man as amazing as you’ is unfortunately jarring, the verses’ militaristic pounding seeming a little pale compared to the album’s harder stuff.Īll Hope Is Gone is admittedly patchy, Wherein Lies Continue being less a patch and more the entire blanket.

Skeptic, however good its intentions, falls short dedicated to Gray, its refrain of, ‘The world will see another crazy motherfucker like you. The brutality was there in spades with stuff like Sarcastrophe and the sinfully sweary Custer, while the tender Goodbye wraps your heartstrings in a bow as does the Circle-on-downers melancholy of XIX.

5: The Gray Chapter was a record Slipknot needed to make, their fifth LP proving there was gas in the dented keg following bassist Paul Gray’s death and Joey Jordison leaving the drum stool. Some Slipknot fans will laugh at you for only knowing the singles and have you believe they want to see Tattered & Torn live. Taylor’s static-drenched vocals and the song’s unsettling, mid-tempo rumble works on paper but aside from its closing blast it just meanders, failing to evoke the pant-soiling levels of atmosphere on the record’s closer Scissors, Iowa’s title track and so on. That’s absolute madness, but the rumour’s given weight by Tattered & Torn’s inclusion a dirge penned by percussionist Shawn ‘ Clown’ Crahan, track 7 on Slipknot is a change in pace and, if we’re being honest, quality. It’s a common misconception that Slipknot’s savage self-titled debut nosedives after Spit It Out.

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