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01742617000027 - 4/5 AN ORIGINAL opening the title of it comes from the bar code on there ep release " mate, feed kill,& repeat" and the people on this song saying " the whole thing i think is sick" over & over are talking about a charles Manson documentary

Sic - 4/5 Good song, Corey taylor's lyric's are just very angry and i find them some what inspireing.

eyeless - 3.5 a good song but after a while gets annoying, and also the chorus going " you can't see california wihtout marlon brando's eyes" is from when the guys from slipknot were in ny signing there contract some crazy man ran down the street screaming " you can't see california without marlon brandon's eyes"

Wait & bleed - 5/5 great choice for a single love the fact that corey sings in this one, and why would mtv play this song its to 'hard" for mtv's viewers and mtv won't play anthing controversial or that won't give them anymore money.

Surfacing - 5/5 another awesome track that will kick your ass and leave you wanting more. The chorus makes me feel like i can get up and kick the world's ass.

Spit it out - 4.5/5 the 2nd single that was BANNED from mtv very good a little rap vocals but just a very little

Tattered & torn - 4/5 an odd & short song but i like it you can actually hear what craig is doing in this song.

Me inside - 2.5/5 the only song that i don't care for this song replaced purity which was on the original version. and "me inside was actually only an extra on the digipack version of this album, purity is tons better

Liberate - 10/5 awesome song great lyrics & vocal style one of the best

Prosthetics - 4.5/5 another very good song i love the intro to it.

no life - 4/5 - vocals could be a bit better and so could the lyrics but joey's drums kick ass in this one

diluted - 5/5 a very sad song (to me) you can feel Corey's pain in this one. another favorite

Only one- 3.5/ good but its over to quickly

Scissors - 15/5 My favorite track off this album an amazing 8 + minute ballad amazing sometimes its a heavy kick your ass song the next minute ts a slow & sad song. amazing

All in all this is a great major label debut & if you are considering bying this album by all means do so, not many of the 1 star voters actually sit & listen to the whole album (i'm not saying all don't) and before i end this i'd like to say this somebody said corey take's his vocals from the lead singer of mudvayne(another good band) but didn't mudvayne's 1st album get released a year after slipknot's debut was released? (which was produced by clown) and why are all the people who call themselves "actuall metalheads" ( and i think i am one) judging slipknot and trying to categorize them? isn't that what mtv & the maisntream do? Well in conclusion this a great album and i recommend it. I hope this review could help you. Stay (sic) maggots.


Insanely boring and inane. That's right it will sell a lot.   March 22, 2000
 57 out of 107 found this review helpful

First off I can't hear any death metal influence really at all, maybe I've listened to bands like Angel Corpse, Broken Hope, Cryptopsy, Obituary, Exhumed, Deceased and Suffocation too much that I'm now deaf...but still. Though I really can hear that the singer is weak, very annoying, and pretending to be an angry preschooler who lost his favourite blanket.

The soundtrack to Sound of Music is much more death, heavier, and offensive than this actually (If you're daring and truly evil pick that up instead). This is not death metal, unless your brand of potency for death metal is something along the lines of Soulfly. If you like this kind of heavier but still "hardcore whatever you kids with your hula hoops and 8 track players call it now" sound, listen to something enjoyable and at least not a commercial prank. Try something like Skinlab instead. Only 4 people in that band and it sounds so much better, why is that? And don't worry, Skinlab says that word that begins with f and rhymes with duck even better than this band.

Hope they add more people to this band like a whole string section, a bell choir, a mandolin, a girl with a triangle, someone who could be in charge of a garbage masher and a blender, and finally a guy to put some utensils in a microwave on high so we can watch the bad talent melt. We will then eat their remains and realize that commercialism really does taste like tuna.

And oh yeah I don't care if you click that this wasn't helpful, because the truth hurts doesn't it?


What happened to the first version of this CD?   May 7, 2000
 37 out of 47 found this review helpful

Well, first,let me tell you, I usually dislike hard(core) musci like this,but i had heard pretty good things about this band..so i decided to give it a try.The minute (Sic) started playing....I WAS BLOWN AWAY! This album is pure madness,without being just repetitive annoying screaming. The lyrics are deep and hard,and the Corey's voice is astonishing, he can switch from Screaming to singing in fractions of a second... But my complaint is, I bought this album in August 1999,and buy then, this album inluded an amazing song called PURITY and it did NOT have "Me Inside", and it didn't have the slipknot logo at the top either....and it had 15 songs, plus 2 or 3 hidden ones. I bought both albums now, and i can honestly tell you the first version is a LOT better, don't get me wrong, Me inside is a good song, but it is NOTHING compared to the brilliant PURITY. Well,all in all, this band is not for everyone, but if you like hard music (this is not metal), deep lyrics, great guitar playing and an amazing singer.....then this is a safe bet.


Aggresive but real   April 29, 2000
 32 out of 35 found this review helpful

Slipknot is, well, they are real. These 9 guys from Iowa are as scarry or as real as they can get. I don't mean their disturbingly creepy/cool masks, I mean their music. The lyrics that the absolutely amazing vocalist Corey Taylor('8' as his band ID suggests) sings out from behind that mask only make sense in this truly diluted world. With every single word the listener can hear his pain. In 'Scissors' he goes into a sort of trance of insanity where he seems to cry and laugh maniacly at the same time while singing "life,time" over and over again. With every single one of those we feel like he is really hurting. And this is something only a few bands can do (or have done in case of KoRn-they still have a chance people! ). The two percussionists 6-Shawn and 3-Chris are absolutely amazing and original. Same with 1-Joey. Every member of this incredible band is 101 percent with the music, everyone knows their instrument. They even have 0-Sid, a DJ who kicks some major MTV DJ Scribble ass. Now how often do you see that in a metal band. The tag team of guitars coming out of 4-James and 7-Mick are really vivid and it really shows that these guys are on their game. Let's not forget the pig masked 2-Paul and 5-Craig. Paul makes some nice sounds come out of his piece and Craig does an incredible job of putting out some creepy sounds. This band is definetly original and the sound they bring out makes you want to go truly nuts. My favorite songs on this CD are the ones where Corey actually sings and the way he can switch between the screaming out loud death sound to a pain filled melody is incredible. This would be 'Wait and Bleed, Me Inside, Prosthetics, Dilutedm, and Scissors.'. But the CD's best is Me Inside. And while you listen to Scissors and actually let the track run, you will find a sickeningly hilarious recording which will make you laugh and realize that these guys are just liek everyone else. They are human. Final words, Slipknot's music shines in today's too much misuderstood world. These guys are real and the lyrics that come out of Corey's mouth are real. It might be hard to get used to but if you listen to it with an open mind, you will quickly realize you are listening to truly amazing music. This should be 10 stars but unfortunately I can only give 5. This is a really meaningful album. Slipknot is here to stay for a while, you can be sure abbout that.


Not half as bad as it's made out to be   January 21, 2005
 26 out of 31 found this review helpful

I like this album. No, that dosen't mean I need a lecture on what good music is or a list of death and black metal bands that are heavier or darker. Chances are whatever you could recommend is probably already sitting next to this Slipknot album in my cd case right now. I'm not here to say Slipknot is the greatest, heaviest band in the world or anything like that, but I do think this album is far better than people give it credit for.

With this release Slipknot manage to blend elements of Thrash and Industrial into the typically stoic nu-metal style to make what is, in my estimation, a pretty good album. The riffs are heavy and aggressive, not the most technical playing you'll ever hear but it fits the overall sound well. Joey Jordinson is probably the highlight of this band, his skill level is top tier. There are quite a few better drummers than him but he does have substantial talent. Corey Taylor isn't what I would count as an amazing vocalist, but he has heart and intensity, which he gets by on. This album isn't without it's faults but everyone else has pretty much covered that so I won't go into great detail on the matter. Turntables, Simple Progressions and a somewhat cheesy theme and appearence are basically the key points of the problems.

Overall, this is far from the best album in the world but it's not terrible either. I am of the belief that Black and Death Metal are superior to Slipknot, however Slipknot is a great 1st step into the realm of extreme metal and toward those genres.