Slipknot albums in order

Slipknot albums in order by year
Slipknot first album release date
Slipknot first album

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Slipknot discography

Slipknot discography
Slipknot performing live in 2019
Studio albums	7
EPs	1
Live albums	3
Compilation albums	2
Singles	28
Video albums	5
Music videos	33
Demo albums	1

The American heavy metal band Slipknot has released seven studio albums, three live albums, two compilation albums, one demo album, one EP, twenty-eight singles, five video albums and thirty-three music videos. Formed in Des Moines, Iowa in 1995, Slipknot originally featured vocalist and percussionist Anders Colsefni, guitarists Donnie Steele and Josh "Gnar" Brainard, bassist Paul Gray, drummer Joey Jordison, and percussionist and backing vocalist Shawn "Clown" Crahan.^[1] The original lineup released its first album Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. in 1996, before undergoing a number of lineup changes over the next few years.^[2]

Finalising its lineup as a nine-piece consisting of Corey Taylor (vocals), Mick Thomson, Jim Root (both guitars), Paul Gray (bass), Joey Jordison (drums), Shawn "Clown" Crahan, Chris Fehn (both percussion), Si

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(Illustration above by Ella Strickland de Souza)

When I first heard Slipknot, the internet was little more than an Angelfire website and the terms and conditions held inside an AOL CD-ROM. Music videos weren’t available to stream online, lyrics could only be found in liner notes, and – besides the few homes that had been blessed with MTV or a magazine subscription – it wasn’t always easy to know what the musicians in the band were like away from their instruments. You just connected with songs that seemed to mirror something within yourself.

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With their weird-ass masks, Slipknot dented culture with such force it caused the mainstream to gravitate towards them, rather than the reverse. They had the power to bear deep into the crevices of your soul and make your insides quake. For me, an awkward teenager from a small town whose mum still bought my clothes, a group of nameless men performing extreme metal in costumes tailored to look like the offspring of every fictional serial killer to date was just about the weirdest shit I’d ever seen.

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