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The Damned - 23.05.2006 at 23:02
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I actually found this album to be really disapointing...I mean it's a good album but it can never compare to the old SlipKnoT I know and love. I found Iowa to be their best album. Lyrically and stle rise Iowa is all that I wanted SlipKnoT to be. I've been a Maggot since it all began and Vol 3. has created massive posers. I don't blame SlipKnoT for that at all but It has happened. You can't walk down the street without seeing some supposed "goth" in a Vermillion shirt. Even the emo's (Which I dispise and wish they just kill themselves the next time they cut) are posing SlipKnoT. All of these posers came out of nowhere and they don't even know what being a Maggot is all about alot of them have answered my question "Are you a Maggot" when I've talked to them about SlipKnoT and I get numerous answers like "do I look like a bug" or "whats that" it's really pathetic that the band that has a reputation for being one of the most violent bands calmed down, changed their sound and created a wave of propoganda posers who listen to nothing but Vol. 3 and say their old music sucks. Even some of them say their old stuff scares them. Overall their sound has died. I mean I don't hate all of Vol. 3 it has some good songs but I don't like the way it changed SlipKnoT and changed who they are in the eyes of the world. Because they went from being a good (In their own style) Death Metal band whos Violence and hatred was unmeasurable on Iowa and just a pure in your face i'm gonna kill the whole world band on Self-Title and being hated and feared by everyone but the maggts to a band that if anyone wants to become quote "Gothic" SlipKnoT is always the first band they buy stuff of. If this rant offened any of you posers I'm glad go do me and all the true Maggots a favor and die. Overall about this album it's not horrible a bad change but as all true Maggots know you can't hate you "Bi-Polar Gods"  for 1 bad mistake and the album is good overall I give it a 7... but for the record self title and Iowa are much better and personally in my opinion 2 of the best albums ever created and I give them both a perfect 10! |
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nick35 - 30.06.2006 at 01:51
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| i love this album but its a lot more mainstream then anything else they have done. Thats cool that a metal band like slipknot can win a grammy for one of their songs. I think thats bad ass. This could do without the clow songs like circle and vermillion part2. Slipknot is not good with acoustic. If u want to hear cory some more check out stone sour. |
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IMO THE WORST ALBUM RELEASED BY SLIPKNOT BY FAR!!!
I worship their early material but wont even lay eyes on their new albums. In my eyes they went from a great heavy metal band to a pathetic Mainstream Alternative rock band, and this is the album that does it for them. |
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What are you saying guys??? I totally disagree with you! The review has a point. This album is the best from from Slipknot, a band that's evolving and the sound becomes better and more mature. The sound is very good, you can even recognize melodies. I liked many songs of this album, who were different, i.e. Duality, Before I forget, Vermilion etc. The sound still's that violent as the other songs from previous albums, but here you can see the evolution of this band. They show us that their not just "I hate you all" but they can write some good ballads too. Everyone I've asked about this album, said only good things. I'm talking about fans of them and people who didn't like them much in the past.
Even me, I didn't like their previous albums and every time a friend of mine (big fan of them) put me down to listen to their songs, we had fights. But not with this album; I found it very good.
Not to mention the excellent music videos like "Before I forget" & "Duality" were you can truely see the violence and whatever else this band is. |
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| IOWA the best album?...ha ha ha ha..you are out of your mind..Iowa is unsuccesfull atempt to sound heavier...the songs don´t make no sense...at least this album..is decente..with alot of melodies! |
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| Slipknot does have some talent but they need to work on some of there guitar parts in songs some of there songs i personaly think just suck bc they have no rythem and harmony to them but the rest of the songs are very well put together |
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| The reviewer had a good point in that this new album is much more mature than the others, and that there are many sounds within each song that you just never notice but still enhance the overall feel. However, I do not find this album to be their best as it is too different to compare, and same with all their albums (possibly excluding Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat because I haven't heard it in its entirety). Slipknot was creepier with their long almost-instrumentals, Iowa was more precise and angry, and their newest was more melodic and complex (not that their others weren't complex); each album was excellent in their given fields. |
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XStraightxEdgerX - 09.12.2006 at 07:32
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| Nu metal mature? Oxymoron anyone? That's right. Slipknot was creepiest when we weren't all certain that they suxorz. |
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DLMokoma - 15.12.2006 at 17:20
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| When I first heard Pulse of the Maggots, I thought, "hell, this solo reminds alot from Slayer". I think that if you wanna know whether Slipknot is metal or not, this record is a step up. I really like it. |
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| Slipknot sound metal enough to me... Because they use turntables that makes them non-metal? |
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 Olli - 12.10.2007 at 14:14
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I love slipknot but I actually think this rating is a bit high. Iowa and the self titled were their best work, sublinal verses was too soft.
I still think this album is good, "Vermillion pt. 2" Is completely different to previous albums but is a really nice peice of music.
The drumming in "The Blister Exists" and other songs are pretty good too, thanks to Joey. |
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| I agree with this review. This album is really goos, and proves that Slipknot is evolving and making great music, and looks like Corey realizaed he doesn't have to scream for everything. |
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| Well.. they kinda lost indentity... IOWA is hated by many, but its the real slipknot, fast, violent, close to a death metal with a DJ xD. This one is good too.. but sounds different.. corey screams arent the same... i still consider IOwa their best album. |
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| Extremely badass album. Love it!!! |
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| Apart from the slow acoustic songs, this is pretty much flawless. Honest, this album is great modern Metal! |
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| And that's the problem with some people it seems.... I don't know why are so called "true metalheads" so fucking alergic to success of a band oustide the underground scene. Underground IS my favourite, but there is still some Mainstream shit that's pretty good. |
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Written by Slayer666 on 06.01.2009 at 23:02
And that's the problem with some people it seems.... I don't know why are so called "true metalheads" so fucking alergic to success of a band oustide the underground scene. Underground IS my favourite, but there is still some Mainstream shit that's pretty good.
Same for me... Sometimes I listen to some underground bands but there's a time that I listen to Korn or Slipknot and that's ok for me. They are not my favorite bands but they're still pretty good at times. |
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| 8.5? is this an april fools joke review? |
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Nah.
I like "Prelude 3.0". It's my all time favourite song by Slipknot despite the fact there are only three songs I like - "Vermillion Part II", "Duality" and this "Prelude 3.0". Hah. |
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Written by Ragana on 05.09.2009 at 17:08
Nah.
I like "Prelude 3.0". It's my all time favourite song by Slipknot despite the fact there are only three songs I like - "Vermillion Part II", "Duality" and this "Prelude 3.0". Hah.
Vermillion pt. II and Duality rule. nd despite the fact that it was the 'hit' song from that album, Before I Forget is pretty good as well. I love playing that one on Guitar Hero  This album is really good, although if I remember correctly I didn't like it that much the first time I listened to it. |
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| I like Before I forget and duality the best |
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| I think 8.5 is a spot on rating. I just can't believe it was nearly 6 years ago since it was released! |
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How can people not like ''The Virus of Life''. Its an amazing dark industrial song, catchy, heavy ambiented, like the olds ''Prostethics'' and ''Tattered and Torn''.
Virus of Life absolutly the best song of the album. The rest is worse than IOWA in every way. |
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I remember this coming out too, it was such a change from "Iowa"... no one knew what to think about it.
It is the best Slipknot album though. Really a great album. Maybe now some years have past, some new people might give it a go and appreciate it. |
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| There's no real rage in this record unlike their first two masterpieces. |
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Written by Baz Anderson on 12.01.2010 at 01:23
I remember this coming out too, it was such a change from "Iowa"... no one knew what to think about it.
It is the best Slipknot album though. Really a great album. Maybe now some years have past, some new people might give it a go and appreciate it.
Spot on with this comment. Whether or not it's still too early for this album to be appreciated I don't know, maybe when people stop vilifying the genre it'll have a proper chance. |
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Cuca Beludo - 14.06.2012 at 19:13
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I'm not a "Trve metalhead nu metul hater", but this albums is boring as hell. Every song sounds the same. One of my friends recommended me this album, as "the best slip album so far". If is this their best work, the weak ones are how? 
5/10 for me. |
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