Which slipknot album is best

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Nero Forte. Rating: 81 21 votes Comments: 0. The Devil In I. Rating: 81 19 votes Comments: 0. Rating: 81 27 votes Comments: 0. Left Behind. Rating: 81 28 votes Comments: 0. Rating: 80 30 votes Comments: 0. Rating: 80 17 votes Comments: 0. The Heretic Anthem. The track album contains crucial recordings of songs rarely included in Slipknot set lists — including "Skin Ticket," "The Nameless" and "Iowa" — and the intensity of the performances is absolutely blinding.

However, between the overall lack of nuance and Corey Taylor's mask-muffled vocals, 9. It's awesome to have in your collection, but you probably won't pull it out very often.

Though infused with some wonderfully creepy atmospherics and studded with flashes of bleak brilliance — including "Psychosocial," "Dead Memories" and "Snuff" — too much of 's All Hope Is Gone sounds cluttered, confused and uncertain of its direction.

Touted at the time as the first 'Knot album to feature serious artistic contributions from all nine band members, it turned out instead to be an unfortunate case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. In many ways, 's. Sadly, much of that sense of purpose stemmed from the loss of bassist and co-founder Paul Gray, whose premature death gave his surviving bandmates a cause to rally around.

But with dark and emotional tracks like "Sarcastrophe," "The Devil in I" and "The Negative One," Slipknot charted compelling new directions forward while saluting the spirit of their fallen comrade. The 'Knot's album caught the metal world by surprise — so much so that it took a while for many listeners to focus on the band's impressive songwriting chops instead of just their freaky masks and pummeling aggression.

Though the album reached no higher than No. The nu-metal residue in Ross Robinson's production might make the album sound somewhat dated, but tracks like "Wait and Bleed," "Eyeless" and "Surfacing" still rip as powerfully today as they did when first unveiled.

Step this way to find out…. It barely even seems fair to include the first Slipknot album in this list. Is only really worth revisiting as an exercise in researching their early days. Hearing them in their embryonic form here is interesting, but there is very little in the way of evidence here that Slipknot would go on to become a band to define a generation. For completists only. Within two years of its release bassist Paul Gray had passed away, and three years later drummer Joey Jordison was unceremoniously ousted from the band.

The 6 studio albums and the lesser known Mate. Ranking these records was no easy feat, and has not been solely based on diehard fan-favourites, but also taking into account the sheer importance of said albums. Anders has since disappeared into the abyss, but at the time led a line up that even the most loyal fans may not recognise.