Slipknot

Formed in the mid-1990s, Slipknot became one of America's leading metal bands in just a few short years, on the strength of some brutal albums. Formed in its definitive configuration around 1997, the band struck hard with its first album, Slipknot (no. 51), revealing no less than nine masked and costumed members, practicing ultraviolent metal mixed with extreme influences (death metal, industrial metal and even grindcore), yet not without melodic nuance. In 2001, Iowa (No. 3) confirmed the band's status as the figurehead of American, if not global, metal. Not very prolific and having taken several breaks, Slipknot has released just five albums in its more than ten years of existence. In 2014, 5: The Gray Chapter was the first album since the death of bassist Paul Gray in 2010. Like its predecessor All Hope Is Gone, released in 2008, it reached No. 1 in the U.S. charts. In mid-winter 2019, the band announced via their social networks their intention to release a new opus. We Are Not Your Kind, released in August of the same year, reached number 1. In 2022, the band releases its seventh opus, the last to be published by Roadrunner, the label that has accompanied Slipknot since 1998. Entitled The End, So Far, it climbed to number 2 on the US Billboard 200 . It was followed in 2023 by Live at MSG, while 2025 saw Slipknot's 25th anniversary reissue, expanded to thirty-two tracks including preliminary versions and new mixes.