Customer Reviews
Best album of the past decade - By: T. Edmunds, 14 Nov 2008 
Best album of the past ten years - I'm serious.
'Slipknot' crystalises all that is good about hardcore metal. I've loved this kind of stuff from the mid 80s, all the way from Celtic Frost through Naplam Deathin the Lee Dorian days to 90s death metal. Great stuff that's always scratched an itch for me.
But nothing brings it all together like this album. It just gets everything so... RIGHT. The combination of emotion - raw aggresion, rage & a bit of humour - with melodies, awesome percussion, theatricality is spot on & quickly gets under your skin. Nothing quite else really comes close to making it all work so well. Vocals, riffs, samples - everything is justin the right place.
This is a truely stunning set of tracks that brings a smile to my face every time I listen to it. It is a special album & you should buy it immediately.
forget BMTH, JFAC, IKTPQ... This is the real stuff! - By: Jake M. Cochrane, 26 Aug 2008 I am not a fan of "Nu-Metal/Screamo",in fact, I despise all these "emo/scene kidd" bands kicking around at the moment. Most guys will take a first listen to a "Slipknot" song, & without thinking straight, will rate it as "screamo" (that meaning they fit into all this "Emo" stuff). Slipknot never have, & never will, fit into this category.
Yes, Slipknot ARE heavy. And yes, they are not going to everybody's cup of tea, I can dig that. What I don't dig is people fitting them into all this "Emo" image.
Slipknot are a clever band; their lyrics are not about "being hurt by one another" & all that stuff influenced by bands like MCR & Hawthrone Heights. Slipknot are a very iconic bands; there aren't many bands that jump around stage wearing masks. I'm not a fan of their music onwards from "Iowa", but I have always enjoyed their first two albums - the way they just went crazy & shocked everybody at the time.
This album will never age. It is fantastic. Buy it. Love it.
Meh. Too repetitive, got some some good moments though (very Little) - By: MrMetalheadO'Hagan, 21 Jul 2008 
Well i'm 17 years old I'm a massive metalhead my favourite bands are Iron Maiden, Dragonforce, Manowar, Slayer & Metallica(& Megadeth same spot). I like any music I don't care what genre it is as long as I like it, & this debut by Slipknot aint that good. All the songs here sound too similar the riffs are aswell too similar. Though Corey Taylor is indeed an awesome vocalist it doesn't show it here. I mean Slipknot are a good band just listen to Vol. 3 Subliminal Verses that's brilliant (maybe has something to do with Rick Rubin the producer).
Best songs here for me are Eyeless & Wait And Bleed. Oh & what is that so called guitar playing at the start of Surface is that supposed to be a solo? Whatever it is it sounds terrible.
This just is too repetitive Coreys vocals(shouting) just gets so annoying after about 2 seconds it sounds the same all the time though when he sings it sounds good but doesn't sing alot. Now I do like shouting vocals it just has to be good like Slayer's Tom Araya. I suggest If you're new to Slipknot buy Vol. 3 Subliminal Verses well worth cehcking out.
This is a weak debut & Slipknot are certainly not the best metal band not by a long shot. Oh too "M Gandolof" I can find plenty albums better suited to pent your anger up to here it is Testament - The Formation Of Damnation, Slayer - Reign In Blood, Metallica - And Justice For All, Devildriver - The Last Kind Words, Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake, Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power, Megadeth - Peace Sells, But Whos Buying! I could name so many more but I've already proved my point. Rock On!!!!
Really *Sic* - By: Tom Barker, 10 May 2008 
Although many people think that this was Slipknot's debut album, they had already released their debut Mate Feed Kill Repeat 3 years previous (albeit with a rather different line-up) & had actually recorded a follow-up named Crowz which was never released.
Anyway over half of the songs on this album are simply rerecorded or slightly altered versions of their previous songs. Having said that 9 years later it still sounds cutting-edge, argueably the best nu-metal album recorded, & should appeal to the majority of metal fans whether they prefer bands like Limp Biscit, Possessed, Mayhem or Mushroomhead.
Lovin' it... - By: Not a Fanboy, 25 Oct 2007 Lots of people say that only `spotty kids' listen to Slipknots music (and that it isn't really music at all).
Well, I'm a well educated, self-employed 28 yr old, who has recently bought this album (along with `Iowa' & `The Subliminal Verses'). And all I can say is, that it's absolutely brilliant.
This will go downin heavy metal history as one of THE greatest albums ever made.
Slipknot are one of those bands (along with others [in my opinion]: Nirvana, Metallica, Rage Against The Machine, & Green Day) that defied convention. They created musicin a style that they wanted to hear, & to stuff anyone else. They merge heavy metal with nu-metal with death metal, with heavy punk -in short - groundbreaking.
A lot has/is written about what Slipknots' songs are all about. But if you research what they say their intention was, & study the lyrics for yourself - you'll begin to see how poetic & intelligent, the songs actually are, through the beautifully crafted angry lyrics.
It's not mindless noise, you couldn't get any random person off the street to produce an album like this (unlike Pop music with `X-Factor' et al).
Definitely worth a listen.
