This album was recorded under crazy conditions. They spent over a year on the road and were thrown back into the studio with zero chance to rest. The guys were at each other’s throats, there was a lot of booze and drugs, and a whole lot of anger. They were sick of each other, but had to somehow coexist and create together. The result is some of the most emotional, energetic shit your ears will ever experience. Legendary band and album.

The great thing with metal & extreme music is that once you understand that it isn't just a bunch of 'angry' noise you then start to find how cathartic it can be. It can be a great release of tensions and stress and leave you feeling like you channeled any negative energy into the music and come out refreshed. It is for this reason that the majority of metalheads that you'll meet will be really great folk. It is so rare that you hear of any trouble at metal gigs or festivals. Glad to see you enjoy the Knot, whilst this is the heaviest album and probably the fan favourite, Subliminal versus (the third album) is a beautiful creation.

The Shape is so underrated, you a real one for calling it a favorite

1:05:33 probably the funniest thing ive heard you say. i was dying before you even realized what year you were talking about.

I'm so shocked nobody has explained IOWA (the song) to you. Corey literally drove himself into an emotional fit during the recording of the song. He stripped down naked in the booth, chugged liquor, broke a candle stick and proceeded to cut his chest open and bleed and throw up everywhere. This song was Corey going into the deepest darkest sickest parts of his mind and who he is. The song (straight from his mouth) is about him being locked alone in a room with a dead body and doing fucked up things to it. By the end he was screaming at everyone to stop staring at him which you can hear in the background if the song. This was Corey releasing all of the pent up rage and hate in life he has bottled up. Amazing reaction to the album man, can't wait for you to get to Vol. 3

No way bro I saw the other one last night and you already hittin Iowa damnnn. I think Vol 3 will be ur favorite if you listen to that one tho. I recommend their third album. You gettin a sub from me btw

Skin ticket is my favorite song on this album, the atmosphere and the raw emotion being released is unparalleled

"That was a good year huh..." *cogs slowly tick in RENO's brain* "...uhh actually we gonna take that one back"

Subbed. You’re hella open minded to music. Doesn’t matter the genre, as long as it’s a good song you’re not afraid to say you dig it.

The intro to this album is actually a recording of #0 Sid Wilson the guy on the turntables. It was recorded in the studio after he found out his grandfather passed away.

Slipknot drumming is otherworldly so much bounce and rhythm but so hardcore.

It's very cool when you realize the significance behind a lot of these songs. Of course, they can all be attributed to combatting their addictions and aggression towards each other but for example: Disasterpiece "I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound" (as the lead singer explained in an interview somewhere) was directed to his bullies as a child Heretic Anthem "If you're 555 then I'm 666" they are not satanic in the slightest, but they're indicating that if people tell them to be one thing they will be the complete opposite. Kinda like differentiating themselves. Also hence the lyrics "Which is fine because you're made of everything I'm not" That song was directed to namely the pop industry and a lot of producers and labels in general that told them to sell hits that can actually appear on the radio for once

This album is peak Slipknot. Absolute perfection. Gosh, I never get tired of listening to it. The percussion is unreal!

You will have to react to every album dude. One you get to the latest one it has the sounds of every album era in that album it’s insane. Can’t wait for you to hear vol.3. It is where they introduce their full sound range every style of slipknot. Heavy, rappy, pretty, angry, happy, jazzy, experimental, blackened, everything. Iowa is their angry shit. They were all on drugs on this album. 9 members in the band btw

515 is depressing af lol its the dj's distorted screaming and crying in the studio after not being able to see his grandpa before he died

I saw their singer Corey Taylor with another band at smaller venue earlier this year. It was the best show I saw all year, and he spat on me, I was honored.

The reason its different and hitting is probably cuz its the most energetic and passionate music you've ever heard. I guarantee you probably cant find previous music you listened to regularly that match this level of energy. Music effects more than people realize and there's a reason low to mid energy music is mainstream.

as soon as I saw this I went like damn he's really going for it

0:51 (515) 1:55 People = shit 9:53 Disasterpiece 19:35 My Plague 25:40 Everything Ends 32:09 The Heretic Anthem 39:36 Gently 47:32 Left Behind 54:13 The Shape 1:00:00 I Am Hated 1:05:44 Skin Ticket 1:13:58 New Abortion 1:19:57 Metabolic 1:27:12 IWOA

I used to listen to this album on my portable CD player on the way to high school everyday. Definitely got me going. You gotta see them do People=Shit, Disasterpiece and Heretic Anthem live in London 2002. Its Slipknot in their prime and its crazy. Corey their singer also recorded this album while naked and cutting himself in the studio.

If you look into the history of Corey and the band you can understand the music around this era. Alcohol drug/abuse, band tensions high, unresolved issues of abuse and depression, and bad personal relationships

Keep going man! Vol.3 is my personal favorite, plus it was recorded in a haunted house, no cap.

I love watching someone react to an album that I’ve heard countless times with brand new eyes and enjoy it so much. Great video, man!

My friend.. You stay strong and listen to what you want, we as metal fans, bilions of us, without border, without color, many of us had to deal with people not understanding why we listen to something agressive, yet, we are for the very most part extreemly calm and kind.. Cause this music is fucking therapy.. Do away with these.. preconceived notions.. judgmental ideals.. and borderline racist depiction of "black people only listen to rap".. it being your friends or otherwise The mind is like a parachute.. they work best when open.. Im sure i speak for the metal community when i say, you are very welcome here and glad to have you with us.. love seeing you react and enjoying anything, no judgement, not all metal is for everyone, each to their own be strong and believe in your own taste, cause its who you are and you shudnt shy away from that. if fools dont let you be.. let them be..

Just found your channel today, I will watch anyone reacting to Slipknot. And man, you killed it! I'm a new subscriber for sure, and really enjoyed watching you break the Slipknot sound down. Welcome to the family 🤘 Also, their shows are the craziest I have ever been to but also are just full of the nicest and coolest people. You should try to hit one up if they tour near you soon

What will always make the first couple of albums undeniably legendary, is the fact that he literally ripped his throat apart recording and performing those songs. That commitment to produce a sound that will never be replicated is something special. The raw absolute rage and brutality of it will never be heard again. Corey (the singer) didn't do his screams in a conventional way, all other singers that use this style use a technique that doesn't hurt or damage their vocal chords. Corey is just fucking screaming as loud as he can.

515 is sid wilson screaming and crying (turntables/dj) after finding out his grandfather past away and sid thought it would add a good fit for the very first song in the album.

love those drums. probably my favorite band to see live.

(515) was Sid SCREAMING his heart out in a separate room due to his grandpa passing away. They heard him from another room and they cried with him from how intense it was in there. They all went through A LOT (abuse, addiction, trauma and depression) when this album was recored. They used that intensity in here. There will NEVER be another Iowa for that reason. They gotta go back to the trauma to get to this point again since a lot of fans want another Iowa.

Good reaction man, this video was pure fun! I'm even being a hardcore Slipknot fan at the time, when I readed the lyrics "slit the throat and fuck the wound" I was shocked lol

Your format is really really good. You let the music play and the reaction is raw. Good shit my guy💯 also THIS ALBUM IS OUTRAGEOUS

I remember buying this album on CD in 2005 at a Record store in Boston that was going out of business. I also bought Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast and The Offspring's Smash. I'll always remember the young girl and guy at the counter looking at me approvingly, with some knowing smiles, and saying I'd made some great choices and that I was gonna love them all. They were especially glad to see me get Iowa. You can't hide enthusiasm like that. I immediately knew I'd made the right choice.

Liked before I watched. Iowa is the hardest. Most maggots look to this as prime knot. But no shame if it ain’t your favorite. Almost all their albums are bangers except the last one they released

been waiting for this, thxx

Yes! I hope this means checking out the following 4 albums. Some are hits, some are misses, but all in all, they're absolutely worth a listen to

Mannnnn! You KNOW im bout to get yelled at by all my family for ignoring them all for the next hour and a half, right?! 🤘🏼🤘🏼😈😈

I really hope you do all the albums. They have changed so much over time it would be cool to see your reaction to all of it back to back to back

That "part" that you like in every song is called the "breakdown"

Now you gotta react to there London 2002 live videos. They go hard like People=Shi, Disasterpiece, Heretic Anthem, etc.🤘

Yooo I was waiting for this video

The Shape is definitely the most interesting song from a hip hop listener perspective it, also it translates well with Korns sounds Slipknot is just more intense and fast.

I absolutely love Skin Ticket, but this entire album just slaps. The only song I find myself skipping on repeat listens is Iowa. :D

I saw your Slipknot self title reaction you are getting a new sub 🤘🤘. Volume 3 is probably one of my favorite slipknot albums. I think you would like it 🙏

Heaviest album you’ve done so far hahahah. Welcome to heavy music. From here you’ll go down the spiral hahahah

love to see it. the next album Vol.3 is a completely different sound. Complete 180 in terms of production.

I was 19 when this album came out… it was like the perfect album, for the perfect time of my life cuz I was wild’n out back then boy lol. My goodness, and this was 2 weeks before 9/11, so that tells you the time period we were dealing with. I’m here to hear the the whole album with you my dude.

you have got to do slipknots all hope is gone album or we are not your kind album theyre so good im in love with them they are so heavy

Yes even though I only have 3 liked songs from iowa I like most of the songs save them for a special occasion.😂 also so amazing u liked the shape. It's underrated

Haven´t watched this yet but i know it will be 🔥reaction. Cant wait for the Vol.3 reaction🤘

Sitting here watching this man absolutely flabbergasted is so fucking funny 😂 we all had the same reaction to this joint when it released 😂😂

Great to see you as always my man, I love this because I see myself discovering this when I was a kid l, brings me sooo many memories and feelings… I would love to see you react to one of the greatest albums ever if you haven’t already: Nirvana - Nevermind. Merry Christmas y’all

Reno back with Slipknot🔥🔥🔥

This bout to be fun fun

Left Behind is my absolutely my favorite song by them / on the album. The groove is soooooo nice.

This is my favorite album, and I consider it the best metal album in the history of mankind.

great video dude, make sure you check out the deluxe version of albums as they have extra songs

You definitetly need to see some of their live performances with video, like spit it out 2009 Download

lets fucking go, fav slipknot album

I want to know who bastardized the lyrics for Skin Ticket? It's "Keeping myself alive through your apathy" not empathy

during the recording of Iowa, the song not the album, Corey went into the studio and recorded completely naked while cutting himself. incredibly fucked up but real

pin Disasterpiece has wierd and killing lyrics because its about Corey's (singer) desire to kill a bully when he was a kid.

I feel like you will like We are not your kind more, its got some bangers and some singing and is one of my personal favourites

Joey Jordison is my childhood hero, this album made my life for years, nice reaction

love this album

The vocals in the intro are from Sid (the dj). During recording his grandfather who he was really close to was ill and there was so much pressure to get the album done that Sid couldnt leave. His grandfather ended up passing away around the same time Sid had finished all his parts. So Sid made the intro just as an emotional release.

i thought the same thing when i listened to the bridge in left behind lol i was like "this sounds like deftones"

Yessss more Slipknot album reactions pleasee

I hate how the lyrics on Spotify are so blatantly inaccurate so often

Hope you see this I'm a little late but Slipknot does have an official Live album that is on Spotify called 9.0 Live

This music doesn't make you want to do things. It expells that shit from your SOUL! It's cathartic and chaotic all at once!

Now The vol 3 álbum it's calmer and more melodic than the first and second album.

hEY dude Just Thank YoU FoR ENyOYING!

Fun story about the intro song (515) This is supposedly actual audio recorded in the studio of their DJ (Sid Wilson) having a mental breakdown after just losing his grandfather, which whom he was insanely close with. Story says he got the call, and instantly started breaking down and screaming "death" repeatedly and they recorded it and turned it into an album intro. This whole album is nothing but raw emotion and still holds up as one of the best metal records ever recorded.

i cant wait for you react to we are not your kind

this one is gonna be lit🔥🔥🔥

If you wanna watch some live stuff i suggest live in london astoria 2004, live in london in 2002, and download in 2009

Hey man, thx! Also I think my demons might be afraid of me now..

Disasterpiece is about the lead singer (Corey Taylor) wanting to kill his childhood bully. And the background for the opening track (515) is the DJ (Sid Wilson) screaming in pain after the sudden death of his grandpa.

9:45 "i know that shit hit live" believe me it fucking does, you should definitely react to their 2001 ozzfest performance where people = shit is their opening song. its crazy.

Dude your EQ on your spotify is AMAZING. i don’t know what it is, but my phone has never sounded better. this album sounds completely different. What are your settings?!? i need them

rip joey jordison, was such a good drummer.

black sabbath - War Pigs ! U gotta do it next ! Or If u wanna do the album by them which the song war pigs is on its called “paranoid”. They were the pioneers of the metal genre in the 70s so its a must bc before any heavy band they were the first EVER

1:12:47 it’s supposed to sound like that.

1:05:33 crazy thing is that the album released just a couple weeks before the incident so the album got no traction at first since everyone was too busy to be listening to music

why does your library look scarily similair to mine??? we might be related bro

I mean you have to see them live in london it was something else !

Everytime you have this indecisive look on your face whether you should like it or not and just say "that shit hard as fuck tho 🤔" the more i realize you're like me when i first started listening to hard music like this 😂. I recommend LD50 album by Mudvayne or Adrenaline by Deftones for nu-metal. Want more screaming??Try gojira, lamb of god, and Killswitch Engage. I don't mind the replays that much and good luck on hitting 8k ❤️

Merry Christmas Brodie and if you like this please give korn’s first three albums a listen when u get the chance it’s unique and heavy like slipknot too

i havent had too much of a look at anything else on your channel but i feel compelled to recommend both rage against the machine and run the jewels, all their albums really, i would just go in chornological order like youre doing here with slipknot, as well as code oranges albums forever and underneath since you seem to be into that aggression

If you want skin ticket live, it’s on the live album “9.0 live”

Architects all our gods have abandoned us has to be a listen it’s amazing

I would LOVE to see you react to their Live at Download 2009 concert. Then you see how really insane they are.

I love this, but why does this dude look like the reaper, the USMC sniper 😅😂

Ngl u gotta see the 2002 live video from the Iowa tour it was one of the best shows ever and had even more energy and aggression than the studio version maybe even sounded better.

Skin Ticket is one of the best songs on the album. Moody, atmospheric, and a bit of a slower burn than most of the rest. When I try to show people that Slipknot is more versatile than they might think I'll show them Heretic Anthem, Left Behind and Skin Ticket are from the same album. You should keep going and do Vol. 3 the Subliminal Verses though if you havent yet.

Theres an acoustic version of gently that is absolutely bad ass

If you liked the slower vibe on the last track i feel like you would definitely like some doom metal I'd recommend Dopethrone by Electric Wizard

Bro, Vol. 3 The Subliminal Verses! You have to do it. You will not be disappointed

I am amazed you low key hated on skin ticket. We all listen to music differently, but skin ticket was the first song they wrote on this album. In fact the dark self harm atmosphere is what inspired the sound for the rest of the album. No matter your music tastes, gotta respect where this stuff actually comes from.

Disasterpiece is about bullies/assholes/etc. Corey was bullied a lot as a kid and wrote this song as a direct "fuck you" to all of them ☠️🤣