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 mention the popularity of the track and its exciting, constant groove – should make it an ideal concert regular.
But, hasn’t exploded from venue speakers since the summer of 2016. Famously, Slipknot have only played the title track of their fourth album . This is in spite of it being ’s lead single, as well as its standing as a technical thrash metal banger with an addictive hook.
Tell us you can’t picture entire arenas screaming, You can’t. Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! was Slipknot’s comeback track. Their first new music after the death of and the dismissal of , it was a statement of continued furiosity from one of the nastiest bands on Planet Earth.
This importance, plus the song’s chart success, hasn’t been enough to put the song on a setlist since June 2019, however. Louder’s resident Gojira obsessive was still at uni when he joined the team in 2017. Since then, Matt’s become a regular in Prog and Metal Hammer, at his happiest when interviewing the most forward-thinking artists heavy music can muster.
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