are dragging out the deep cuts! Nu metal’s nine-man wrecking crew and are playing in full. As a result, and got their first live airings since 2012 and 2000 respectively. Though The Nine are going to be in mode for the rest of the year now, the resurrected rarities have got us thinking about other neglected classics in their catalogue.
Here are six more long-unplayed fan-favourites that need to be brought out of retirement at some point. We understand why this one hasn’t graced a setlist since 2016. Not only is a 15-minute odyssey; its darkly ambient, necromantic fantasies make it an outlier in Slipknot’s otherwise apoplectic canon.
However, this bleak finale of is a beloved experiment, and the idea of it never terrifying audiences again is a pretty shit one. has all the hallmarks of a live standout. It’s one of ’s most popular songs, thanks partly to its inclusion on the 2002 film soundtrack.
Its verses are destructively heavy, whereas the chorus is a cathartic throat-shredder with those cries of So, how come it’s not been played in eight years? Heresy. Slipknot shed their nu metal skin in 2004, with factoring in both white-knuckle thrash and tender, acoustic segues. A live version of the song was released to promote the album in November 2005, but it hasn’t been played since then.
The number of streams it has compared to most other cuts suggests that that needs to change. was written as an anthem for the Slipknot fan-base. The unity of such lines as – not to.