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Slipknot: Corey (vocals); Mick, James (guitar); Paul (bass); Joey (drums); Shawn, Chris (percussion); Craig (samples); Sid (DJ).
Recorded at Sound City and Sound Image, Van Nuys, California.
"Left Behind" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.
Personnel: Corey Taylor (vocals); Jim Root, Mick Thompson (guitar); Shawn Crahan, Chris Fehn (percussion); Craig Jones (sampler).
Audio Mixer: Andy Wallace.
Recording information: Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, CA; Sound Image, Van Nuys, CA.
Photographer: Neil Zlozower.
Arranger: Slipknot.
After a couple years of relentless touring in support of their self-titled breakthrough album, Slipknot regrouped to record Iowa, an ode to their home state that consolidates and punctuates everything that had garnered the band its cultish following. The monstrous guitar crunch, the concrete-dense rhythmic foundation, the frenzied singing, and the overall madcap fashion of it all -- Slipknot's trademark sound is very much at the forefront of this dark, dark album and is presented in epic form on the extended, album-closing title track, which brings to mind Children of the Corn-type terrors. Though not quite as commercially viable as the more straightforward Slipknot album, Iowa is a more interesting listen, one that envelopes you in its American Gothic shadow and leaves you feeling unsettled afterward. It's really all you could ask for in a Slipknot album, and then some -- perhaps some more than you'd like, in fact, if you're not part of the cult. ~ Jason Birchmeier
The two most anticipated hard rock/heavy metal releases of 2001 were unquestionable Tool's LATERALUS and Slipknot's sophomore effort, IOWA. The nine-piece masked band has returned with another platter of bile-spitting, hate-filled rage rock, certain to please fans of their self-titled 1999 debut. Despite the debut instantly making the band a promising metal contender (going platinum with absolutely no radio or MTV play), the intensity level hasn't dipped in the slightest on their second platter. Producer Ross Robinson is once again back on board, and IOWA delivers from beginning to end, as evidenced by such angst-filled, explosive tracks as "People = Shit," "The Heretic Anthem," and "Left Behind," to name but a few. IOWA is surely destined to be the album that catapults Slipknot to the top of the heavy metal heap. It serves as the perfect soundtrack for disaffected teenage metalheads the world over.Rolling Stone (10/11/01, p.90) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Next to IOWA's hell-hop polydrumming and nail-bomb showers of soprano-drone guitar and sampled squeal, nearly everything else in modern doom rock sounds banal....With IOWA Slipknot go to the head of the slag heap, the new kings of extreme..."
Q (10/01, p.130) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A punk pipebomb pointed at the mainstream and ready to blow..."
Uncut (11/01, p.120) - 3 1/2 stars out of 5 - "...The barely relenting, tumbling noise attack marshalled by nu-metal uber-producer Ross Robinson is expert..."
Alternative Press (9/01, p.75) - 7 out of 10 - "...Like having a plastic bag taped over your head for an hour while Satan uses your scrotum as a speedbag....[It] is over the top...you're going to be left in stitches..."
CMJ (10/1/01, p.13) - "...Brutal, unrelenting, scorching..."
NME (Magazine) (12/29/01, p.59) - Ranked #6 in NME's 50 "Albums Of the Year 2001".
NME (Magazine) (8/25/01, p.49) - 8 out of 10 - "...Exhilarating, brutal and good....Like the art of the insane, every possible space is covered in scrawl and cymbals..." Iowa Music Review Average Rating: (3.8 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Anger,Hate,and Rage combined!!!!
This album has it all. Fast drum beat, streaming guitars and Coreys vocals. Get this and spread the hatred!
Submitted by Maggot696 (San juan P.R)
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A Solid Sophomore Effort
Slipknot have come back with their sophomore effort IOWA, after having cancelled shows, and spending extra time in the studio and the production process, this band who is much about their fans wanted to come out with the best album they could for the Maggots. While the first album touched on things like society, and the feeling that people don't belong, was something to relate to, this album is on a more personal level. It seems to let you in more on the creative process, the lyrics are solid, with good use of melody. Where as most bands on their sophomore effort, like to try to break new ground, Slipknot seemed to stay true to their roots, and in some cases digressed away from a hip hop-like song structure, concentrating more on unexpected twists and changes. The guitar playing is a relentless assault, with a little more thrashing on here. Also there are less samples and scratching, and even less percussion from Chris and Shawn. Corey has never sounded better, showing off a better vocal range than ever before. It's hard not to be called commercial when your debut goes double platinum and you are in some sort of mainstream, which I believe was inspiration for Slipknot to be heavier than ever.
Submitted by a reviewer (Chattanooga, TN) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 3 of 4 found this helpful. Wow. Just Wow.
This seriously is a great album, definitely a milestone for the band. I hope they release another album with a heavier theme like this one.
Submitted by Steve (Apple Valley, MN)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. BLEW ME AWAY!
Can't get enough of this death metal. Simply can't get enough. Mick and James on the guitars, ripping out riffs that go so well with Joey's explosive drumming on the double-bass. His awesome techniques, mind-tearing tempo, and headbanging style shifts this album to reach the highest of charts.
Submitted by Headbangers R US (Plano, TX, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful.  overkill on all points
this is what happens to a band with a chaos overload syndrome. every point here is just to blundgeon the listener. the vocals are roared raw, the drums are fast and killer, and the guitars are a massive wall that falls on everything. all of this is a double edged sword- all killer and pushed to the point of abrasive. what is sad is that there are 9 members...both don't seem to get an equal hearing. i love the power delivered here but at the same time just don't feel that it's better than the rest in metal.
Submitted by calavera1102 (amarillo, tx)
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These nine Midwestern boys (all from Des Moines, IA) perform wearing orange industrial coveralls with UPC symbols on the front; each bandmember is identified by a number, which is painted on the sleeve of his coveralls. Each also wears a really nasty-looking mask. Judging from their appearance and from the sound of their debut album, it's easy to assume that they're upset about something. What it is exactly is kind of hard to tell, since the stuttering roar of Number 8's vocals is barely discernible through the jackhammer death metal drums, massed guitars, horror-show samples, and jittery turntable scratches that pummel the listener through almost every song. You thought Limp Bizkit was hard? They're the Osmonds. These guys are something else entirely. And it's pretty impressive. Although those lyrics that are discernible are not generally quotable on a family website, suffice it to say that the members of Slipknot are not impressed with their fathers, their hometown, or most anything else. "Surfacing" starts out by cursing pretty much everything ...
| | Alice In Chains Dirt CD (1992)
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Live Recording
Alice In Chains: Layne Staley, Jerry Cantrell (vocals, guitar); Michael Starr (bass); Sean Kinney (drums).
Additional personnel: Tom Araya (background vocals).
Recorded in 1992.
Dirt is Alice in Chains' major artistic statement and the closest they ever came to recording a flat-out masterpiece. It's a primal, sickening howl from the depths of Layne Staley's heroin addiction, and one of the most harrowing concept albums ever recorded. Not every song on Dirt is explicitly about heroin, but Jerry Cantrell's solo-written contributions (nearly half the album) effectively maintain the thematic coherence -- nearly every song is imbued with the morbidity, self-disgust, and/or resignation of a self-aware yet powerless addict. Cantrell's technically limited but inventive guitar work is by turns explosive, textured, and queasily disorienting, keeping the listener off balance with atonal riffs and off-kilter time signatures. ...
| | Mudvayne L.D. 50 CD (2000)
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Explicit Lyrics
Mudvayne: Gurrg (vocals, guitars); Ryan (bass guitar); Kud, sPaG.
Personnel: Kud (vocals); Gurrg (guitar); sPaG (drums).
Audio Mixer: Andy Wallace.
Recording information: Warehouse Studio, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Mudvayne boasts a couple of elements that distinguish it from most contemporary heavy metal outfits. The band adopts bizarre facial makeup that is less suggestive of Kiss than of a bunch of boys who, having failed to plan their Halloween costumes, threw something together by raiding their mother's vanity case. And lead singer Kud (they have funny pseudonyms, too) doesn't always sing in a typical hardcore howl, sometimes descending into a more conventional voice, as if he were auditioning to replace Sebastian Bach in the Broadway production of Jekyll & Hyde. Such characteristics suggest that, for Mudvayne, the thrash style is something of a pose, a suspicion enhanced by reference to the CD booklet, which contains an acknowledgments section as lengthy ...
| | Slipknot Vol.3: The Subliminal Verses CD (2004)
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LTD.Enhanced CD Cont.Key To Excl.On-Line Content+Unrel Trk
Initial pressings of VOL. 3: (THE SUBLIMINAL VERSES) include Enhanced CD content.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Slipknot set out to construct the ultimate metal music flamethrower, ever since their genesis in a Des Moines, IA, basement. But they also deployed an agitprop campaign of masks, smocks, and bar codes that helped scare parents (like good metal should) and transform Slipknot fans into faithful "maggots." The Midwestern origin of all this craziness is genius, as the band's marrow-draining metal and twisted, fibrous mythology is antithetical to the region's milquetoast rep. Still, after the gothic nausea of 2001's Iowa, Slipknot's vitality dissipated in clouds of gaseous hype and individual indulgence. Had they grown fat on their thrones? Probably. But the layoff only makes Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses scream louder. Working with famously ...
| | Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1 CD (2004)
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This release includes a bonus DVD.
Korn: Jonathan Davis (vocals, bagpipe); Brian Welch, James Shaffer (guitar); Fieldy (bass guitar); David Silveria (drums).
A decade after changing the metal landscape drastically with their self-titled debut juggernaut, Korn got the best-of treatment just as their standing began to seem increasingly shaky, commercially at least. Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 sadly isn't the disc it ideally could be, but it nonetheless summarizes how steady Korn were over the years, developing their sound oh so slightly from one album to the next and, in the process, coming up with several unquestionably killer songs every go-round. The band's six full-lengths resulted in enough of those killer songs to fill this best-of to the brim; in fact, there are quite a few more that could have been compiled here if there were more space on this single-disc release (a double disc would have been definitive). As it stands, however, practically every song here is a highlight in and of itself, with the sole exceptions of the below-par "Alone I Break" and a pair of album-opening covers: Cameo's "Word Up!" and Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall, Pts. 1-3." These newly recorded covers are here undoubtedly ...
| | Mudvayne Lost And Found CD (2005)
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