antiReviews: Slipknot: Limited Edition Digi-pack  by OVERLORD

Label: Roadrunner Records 
Release Date: September 26th, 2000

Track Listing:

1. 742617000027 
2. (Sic) 
3. Eyeless 
4. Wait And Bleed 
5. Surfacing 
6. Spit It Out 
7. Tattered & Torn
8. Me Inside
9. Liberate
10. Prosthetics
11. No Life
12. Diluted
13. Only One
14. Scissors
15. Get This (Bonus Track)
16. Spit It Out (Hyper Version) (Bonus Track)
17. Wait And Bleed 9Terry Date Mix) (Bonus Track)
18. Interloper (Demo) (Bonus Track)
19. Despise (Demo) (Bonus Track)
20. Surfacing (Live) (Bonus Track)

After listening to Slipknot's Limited Edition Digi-pack, which includes all of the tracks on the bands 1999 debut release, plus six tracks previously unavailable in the U.S., including live tracks, remixes, and some very heavy European B-sides, you may want to go out and terrorize your local bible study group.  All humor aside; these nine Iowa native musicians crank out plenty of high octane in your face Ultra-Violence on this disk.  The onslaught starts off with the help of famed producer Ross Robinson's killer studio expertise, making this CD most definitely one of the hardest releases from the "nu-metal" batch of bands. 

Combining down-tuned guitars with intricate blast beats and mixed vocals ranging from hardcore to somewhat melodic overtones makes this CD worth checking out.  I felt that tracks like SIC, Surfacing and Diluted offer mixed styles of hard hitting grind-core like, groove laden rhythms with plenty of dance parts for all you pit warriors.  The CD's music has an intensity that would be justified by having equally intense lyrics that would make the band even more dimensional.  Hopefully for future efforts they will be able to mature as songwriters to compliment their ferocious sound. 

I personally do not like some of these other new bands out now trying to combine rap/metal or whatever that "nu-metal" s*** is.  Out of those ashes, Slipknot have my admiration due to the fact they can truly pull off aggressive music and mix in other styles that sound unlike other bands.  This CD rocks, and if you new-school kids want to hear some heavy bands that have paved the way for bands like Slipknot, I recommend Carcass or Napalm Death for your grind-core fix.
 

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