The fifth full-length album by legendary American Nu Metal band. Roadrunner Records / The All Blacks U.S.A. By April 2015, '.5: The Gray Chapter' had sold 310000 copies. It had Top 5 debuts in the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Austria, New Zealand, Mexico, Denmark and Finland. 1 in Japan, Canada, Russia and Switzerland. It was Slipknot's second album to debut at number one on the US Billboard 200 albums chart by selling 132000 copies in its first week. 1 spot in Australia on the ARIA Albums Chart with 14188 first week sales. Listening to the album, it's clear that even though Slipknot aren't over the loss of a dear friend and colleague, they're able to channel their grief into a productive album, allowing them to continue moving forward while paying tribute to a fallen comrade with one of the strongest albums of their career!ДЄlbum landed in the No. While Jordison will certainly be missed, the band's mysterious new drummer, whose identity the band have done their damndest not to reveal, slots in marvelously, seamlessly acclimating to the band's suddenly shifting tempos and styles. Combining the punishing, pummeling Metal of the band's early work with the more melodic focus of their later years, 'The Gray Chapter' shows off just how unexpectedly wide the band's range is, going from a plaintive, atmospheric ballad like album-opener 'XIX' to a Thrash-inspired pummeling like 'Sarcastrophe' without missing a beat. Rather than allowing their pain and anger destroy them, they were able to harness that energy and focus it, allowing them to create one of their most visceral and dynamic albums to date. It is the first studio album by the band in six years and the first to not feature founding bassist Paul Gray and long time drummer Joey Jordison due to the death of Gray in 2010 (the title of the album being a reference to his name), and the departure of Jordison in late 2013.

This is the fifth major label studio album by Slipknot. The sixth full-length album by American Nu Metal band.

Roadrunner Records have listed the music video for 'Duality' as the best video in Roadrunner history. At the end of 2009, 'Before I Forget' was listed as AOLвЂ™s 'Top Metal Song of the Decade'. The band also received the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for the song 'Before I Forget'. The album peaked within the top ten in album sales across eleven countries, and went Platinum in the United States. It's a satisfying, carefully crafted representation of their career to date. 3''s various portions in wildly different ways. Rubin is integral to the album's power, his cataclysmic vocal filters and arrays of unidentifiable squiggle and squelch unite 'Vol. The seething anger and preoccupation with pain is valid because it's componential to the band's uniquely branded havoc. 3' shares its lyrical themes of anger, disaffection, and psychosis with most of Slipknot's Nu-Metal peers, what makes it tick is the dedication to making it a Slipknot album, and not just another flashy Alt-Metal billboard. Nevertheless, they wrote more than enough material for a new album - the bandвЂ™s first to incorporate more traditional, melodic song structures, guitar solos and acoustic guitars. Initially, the band was unproductive lead vocalist Corey Taylor was drinking heavily. However, in 2003, Slipknot moved into The Mansion to work on the album. Some band members had already been involved in side projects including Murderdolls, To My Surprise, and the reformation of Stone Sour. The bandвЂ™s only album produced by Rick Rubin, and also the only one not to feature harsh profanity.ДЇollowing the bandвЂ™s tour to promote its second album in 2002, speculation regarding the future began. The fourth full-length studio album by legendary American Nu Metal band.

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