Slipknot

SlipknotProduct Info These nine Midwestern boys (all from Des Moines, IA) perform wearing orange industrial coveralls with UPC symbols on the front; each bandmember is identified by a number, which is painted on the sleeve of his coveralls. Each also wears a really nasty looking mask. Judging from their appearance and from the sound of their debut album, it's easy to assume that they're upset about something. What it is exactly is kind of hard to tell, since

Constant touring was broken up by three recording sessions that would make up the new album and the time spent in transit comes through in repeated lyrical themes of displacement

C1 Lady Madonna 2:56

B5 : Message From The Beast (2:12)

B5 Checking Up On My Baby 3:17

the album’s single-letter title refers to the studio tapes

all feeding one another and vaulting toward the horizon

gospel-influenced “Sweet Love” closes out this assured

The Doors had a transformative impact not only on popular music but on popular culture

‘Frampton’ features the hits ‘Baby I Love Your Way’ and ‘Show Me The Way’

Overjoyed 3:44

compositional and spatial mission: sparse but lush

just as the Mummers’ plays involve people travelling from place to place in a village enacting tales of the cycle of life (albeit in disguise)