'Knot Your Skinda Guys
Total Guitar|September 2019

Join Slipknot’s Jim Root and Mick Thomson as They Take You on a Journey Inside the Making of Their Crushing New Album, We Are Not Your Kind. They Also Talk Gear Galore, Those New-ish Masks — and Reminisce About the Sights, Sounds and Smells of the 1999 Ozzfest

Richard Beinstock
'Knot Your Skinda Guys

IT'S NOT TOO OFTEN THAT SLIPKNOT RELEASE A NEW ALBUM — IT’S BEEN HALF A DECADE SINCE THE BAND’S LAST FULL-LENGTH ONE, 2014’S .5: THE GRAY CHAPTER — BUT WHEN THEY DO, ONE THING YOU CAN BE SURE OF IS THAT IT’LL BE A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE IN EVERY WAY, FROM THE MUSIC TO THE VISUALS TO THE OUTFITS (NEW MASKS, ANYONE?) THAT GO ALONG WITH IT. “YOU CAN EITHER EVOLVE WITH US AND GET WITH IT, OR MAYBE YOU’RE JUST NOT THERE YET, AND MAYBE WE’RE NOT YOUR BAND,” GUITARIST JIM ROOT SAYS. “BUT WE’RE ALWAYS GOING TO DO WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO.”

That ideology is evident on the band’s newest and sixth full-length album, We Are Not Your Kind. The record finds Slipknot – which, in addition to Root, includes the core Des Moines, Iowabred unit of guitarist Mick Thomson, singer Corey Taylor, percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan, keyboardist and sampler Craig Jones and turntablist Sid Wilson, as well as newer additions drummer Jay Weinberg and bassist Alessandro Venturella (co-percussionist and original member Chris Fehn exited the band under acrimonious circumstances in March, with his position filled by a so-far anonymous stand-in) – playing it as hard and fierce as ever (witness the positively crushing Birth Of The Cruel and the rampaging closer Solway Firth), while also continuing to push out on their sonic boundaries, as evidenced by tracks like the choir-assisted first single Unsainted, the eerie and atmospheric Spiders and Not Long For This World, and the hooky, major-key thrash anthem Nero Forte.

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