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We Are Not Your Kind (2019)

Where the lyrics of We Are Not Your Kind take you, and where it was really made.

This is the only Slipknot album made by an eight-member band, because percussionist Chris Fehn was fired in March 2019 while the record was being finished.

Key places

Recorded at EastWest Studios (2019)

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Album story

Overview

• We Are Not Your Kind is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot
• Released August 9, 2019, by Roadrunner Records
• The only Slipknot album recorded as an eight-member band
• Title taken from a lyric in the song "All Out Life"
• "All Out Life" was released as a standalone single in 2018 and appears as a bonus track on the Japanese edition only

Background

• Writing began in February 2017, when Jim Root and Shawn "Clown" Crahan started writing new material together
• The plan was at first a double album, which would be the band's first
• Crahan said the band wrote and recorded 22 songs and 26 interludes in total
• Corey Taylor spent 2017 recording and touring with his other band Stone Sour, so much of the early writing happened without him
• Percussionist Chris Fehn was fired in March 2019 after suing the group over unpaid royalties
• Taylor said the lyrics drew on a hard period in his life, including his separation from then-wife Stephanie Luby in 2016

Recording

• Recording began in November 2018, shortly after the release of the standalone single "All Out Life"
• The full band joined in January 2019
• Recorded at EastWest Studios in Hollywood, California, with co-producer Greg Fidelman
• Recording was completed by April 2019
• A rumor that Ross Robinson would produce the album was dismissed by guitarist Jim Root
• Root said the band spent most of its time on demos and found the final tracking process "a big challenge"

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Tracklist

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Artist

Formation

• Slipknot is an American heavy metal band formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995 by percussionist Shawn Crahan, vocalist Anders Colsefni and bassist Paul Gray.
• The band is known for its masks, matching jumpsuits and numbered identities.
• Their self-titled debut album (1999) brought rapid fame, and Iowa (2001) made them more popular.

Members

• Shawn Crahan is the only founding member in the current lineup.
• Corey Taylor has been the lead vocalist since 1997.
• Mick Thomson and Jim Root are guitarists in the current lineup.
• Eloy Casagrande became the drummer in 2024.

Career

• The band released All Hope Is Gone (2008), which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200.
• Paul Gray died in 2010 from an accidental overdose.
• The seventh studio album, The End, So Far, was released in 2022.
• The band has sold about 30 million records worldwide.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Metacritic: universal acclaim, weighted average score of 89 out of 100 from 14 critic scores
• NME's Jordan Bassett gave a five-star review and called it an astonishing record
• Kerrang! writer Emily Carter gave the album a perfect rating
• Consequence of Sound's Michael Pementel called it one of the strongest albums in the band's career
• Forbes writer Quentin Singer called it a metal magnum opus
• Pitchfork's Andy O'Connor said it has more to offer than expected, but is still frustratingly short-sighted
• Sputnikmusic called it the best album Slipknot had made in 15 years, while complaining about its length and homogenised stomping rhythm

Records

• Debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard 200 with 118,000 album-equivalent units, including 102,000 pure album sales
• Slipknot's third consecutive album to reach number 1 in the US, after All Hope Is Gone and .5: The Gray Chapter
• Debuted at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart with 31,800 units in its first week, including 25,500 physical copies
• First UK number 1 for the band since 2001's Iowa
• Ten album tracks that had never charted before entered the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title comes from a lyric in the 2018 single "All Out Life", which was first planned for the album but left off once the track listing was revealed.
• Several song ideas came from rough demos recorded on the previous tour.
• Corey Taylor claimed the album contains one of the heaviest songs of the band's career.
• The album kept Ed Sheeran's Collaborations Project from a fifth straight week at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart.
• Jim Root said Fehn's departure had little impact on the production of the album.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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