25 posts tagged “slipknot”

I should've added this song to my August 12th post on music.

Performing Snuff

I think everyone can safely say that music is, or has been a big influence on their life.  How it can define and clarify your current mood, bring back distant memories or define an entire generation.  I think everyone has a particular piece of music that hits them the hardest; something that digs down deep and evokes the most emotion.

There are quite a few artists (and songs) that really "do it" for me.  Most of these I'll listen to while training in the gym or just when I'm on the road since I don't listen to the radio anymore.  The links to the songs listed are from within my Vox music library of tracks I uploaded.  Just open a separate tab to listen to the track while you browse (or continue reading).
 

• Danzig - Cold Eternal & Come to Silver
  
• Korn - Alone I break, Did my time, Everything I've Known, Alive, Tearjerker, Throw me away & Hushabye
  
• System of a Down - Lonely Day
  
• Hatebreed - Empty promises, Afflicted past, Driven by Suffering, Healing to Suffer again, I will be heard, Perseverance, Proven, Unloved, A lesson lived is a lesson learned, Another Day Another Vendetta, Confide in no one, The most truth, Defeatist & Give wings to my triumph
  
• Heaven Shall Burn - Black Tears
  
• Slipknot - Danger Keep Away, Vermillion, Vermillion Pt. 2, Vermillion Pt. 2 (Bloodstone Mix), Dead Memories & 'Til we die
  
• Marilyn Manson - Great big white world & In the valley of the shadow of death
• Creedence Clearwater Revival - Someday never comes
  
• Cake - Never There, I will survive & Going the Distance
• Terry Reid - To be treated
• Nirvana - You know you're right, Oh Me & Where did you sleep last night?
• Linkin Park - Somewhere I belong
  
• 311 - Amber
• The Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden
• Johnny Cash - Hurt
  
• Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
• Staind - It's been awhile
  
• Verve Pipe - Colorful
  
• Metallica - Astronomy, Turn the page, Tuesday's Gone, Fade to Black, Nothing else matters, The Unforgiven, The Unforgiven II, The Unforgiven III, The Outlaw Torn, Mama Said, The Memory Remains, Low Man's Lyric, Frantic, The Unnamed Feeling, Suicide & Redemption
  
• Stone Sour - Cardiff & ZZyyzx Rd.
  

Those were just to name a few.  I guess what I find so powerful about it, is you can hear in it (and develop a connection to it through personal experience): pain, suffering, desperation borne of sadness; a bit of insanity, but through it all an unbreakable resolve not to give up, not to lay down and let the events of your life roll over you (check out some Hatebreed's lyrics and you'll get where I'm going with this), so I think this makes it (the music and connection) all the more powerful.
 
I'm used to listening to these various artists on either my iPod or my iPhone during long road trips (more to come this fall now that college football is in season) to Lincoln, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, or where ever else I wanted to go for a day or two.  I like how I can just sit there in my car and just let my emotions wash over me regardless of my current mood while my mind wanders.   

This fluid feels like pain
This stoic mood is all in vain
I reach into the dark
I tear the sun and me apart
How many years ago
How many deaths I can't let go
My flesh is temporary, my God extraordinary

You.. can't.. kill.. my... mind
A man delivered can never make his way in darkness
I know tonight will end
but I won't give this life away again

Sifting through the seen debris
Oh my father call to me
This smoke is in my blood
This home is just no good
Save me from my bitterness
Give me up I did my best
Chalk this system full of shit
Lock this fucker lost in it

You.. can't.. kill.. my... mind
A man delivered can never make his way in darkness
I know tonight will end
but I won't give this life away
I won't give this life away again

A man surrendered
can never find his own forgiveness
I know my life will end
but I won't give tonight away
I won't give tonight away again

Oh yeah!

This fluid feels like pain
This ruin feels like rain
I reach into the past
My future's fading fast

How many years ago?
How many I let go?
My flesh is all I have
My face is happenstance

This smoke is in my blood
This life is not enough
This life is not enough
This life is not enough

\m/  Cheers  \m/

Show us what band you'd like to be the lead singer for.

Slipknot

That's too easy....

One of my favorite Slipknot songs that they've produced. 

Lyrics:
Maze...psychopathic daze...I create this waste
Back away from tangents, on the verge of drastic
ways...can't escape this place...I deny your face
Sweat gets in my eyes, I think I'm slowly dying

Put me in a homemade cellar
Put me in a hole for shelter
Someone hear me please, all I see is hate
I can hardly breathe, and I can hardly take it

HANDS ON MY FACE OVERBEARING I CAN'T GET OUT
HANDS ON MY FACE OVERBEARING I CAN'T...

Lost...run at my own cost...fearing laughter, scoffed
Running from the rush, detached from such and such
Bleak...all around me, weak...listening, incomplete
I am not a dog, but I'm the one your dogging

I am in a buried kennel
I have never felt so final
Someone find me please, losing all reserve
I am fucking gone, I think I'm fucking dying

HANDS ON MY FACE OVERBEARING I CAN'T GET OUT
HANDS ON MY FACE OVERBEARING I CAN'T...

You all stare, but you'll never see
There's something inside me(x3)
You all stare, but you'll never see
There's something in you I despise

Cut me - show me - enter - I am
willing and able and never any danger to myself
Knowledge of my pain, knowledge of my pain
Or was my tolerance a phase?
Empathy, out of my way
I can't die(x4)

You all stare, but you'll never see
there's something inside me(x3)
You all stare, but you'll never see
there's something in you I despise

Despise... despise...

Purity(x8)

Have you ever seen God? (x4) (live version)

Share the last song you listened to.

Slipknot - 'Til We Die (Full Song)

'Til We Die (Bonus Track) From the album All Hope Is Gone 2008

Lyrics:

My friends are all hurting from moments and regrets and charity laced with a lie
And still we keep hoping, to fix all the defects and strengthen these seminal ties
We go on together for better or worse, our history is to real to hate
Now and forever we stay until morning, and promise to fight for our fate

'Til we die
'Til we die

The start of the journey is every bit worth it, I can't let you down anymore
The sky is still clearing, we're never afraid and the consequence opens the door
I've never stopped trying, I've never stopped feeling like family is much more than blood
Don't go on without me, the piece that I represent complements each and every one

'Til we die
'Til we die

We won't be forgotten, we'll never give in
This war we've acheived has allowed us to win

'Til we die
'Til we die

My last true confession will open your eyes, I've never know trust like the nine
Let it be spoken, let it be screamed, they'll never ever take us alive

'Til we die
'Til we die

We won't be forgotten, we'll never give in
This war we've acheived has allowed us to win

Carry on
Carry on

We'll never be broken, we won't be denied, our war is the pressure we need to deny
We'll never be broken, we won't be denied, our war is the pressure we need to deny

'Til we die
'Til we die

We won't be forgotten, we'll never give in
This war we've acheived has allowed us to win

Carry on
Carry on

We'll never be broken, we won't be denied, our war is the pressure we need to deny

'Til we die
'Til we die
'Til we die

We won't be forgotten, we'll never give in
This war we've acheived has allowed us to win
We'll never be broken, we won't be denied, our war is the pressure we need to deny

What is your theme song?
Submitted by Spanglish

Wow!  I think that there are far too many to choose from.  Hmmmm.  Well, I'll just post away rather than choose just one from my collection.  :)

I picked up Slipknot's latest album "All hope is gone" yesterday but just started playing it.  While this album is not nearly as aggressive (so far, just into "Sulfur") as their self titled album released in 1999.  It is a step above and beyond their last album "Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses".  One of my favorite tracks (the vid played a big part) is "Psychosocial".  So far, so good with this album.  I'm already looking forward to the U.S. tour.  I'll definitely be in the pit.

Back to the album.  The guitar riffs are slightly more aggressive than on Vol. 3, but nowhere near as heavy as those on IOWA which was the darkest album the band managed to release.  I'm listening to "Dead Memories", it doesn't quite fit the overall album and sounds like something that Stone Sour (Corey Taylor (vocalist) and James Root (guitarist)) would release on the side.  It doesn't sit well with me right now.  It doesn't sound like Slipknot.  But hell, you have to give some major points to the Knot for updating the masks this album cycle right? 

I'm going to keep listening to this album today and slap it on my iPod while I'm on my PC.  I recommend this album to any newbie getting started with the Knot.  It's a good album to break in any potential "maggot" and then I recommend purchasing the previous albums and build that library.