r/Music • u/imatmydesknow Concertgoer • 6d ago

music Slipknot enters Spotify's 1 Billion streams club with "Duality"

https://lambgoat.com/news/49390/slipknot-enters-spotifys-1-billion-streams-club-with-duality/
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u/tequilasauer 6d ago

People can say what they want, but it's amazing what they've done in terms of popularity considering their earlier music and imagery. Iowa being a Platinum selling album is just crazy.

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u/HadesWTF 6d ago

Especially crazy given that Iowa is a relatively pretty heavy album.

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u/misho8723 6d ago

Relatively ? Really?

That album has death+black metal and grindcore elements and sections and blast beats

Is it pure death, black metal or grindcore? Of course not but it's fucking brutal and nihilistic as fuck

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u/space_guy95 6d ago

Yeah, anyone saying that album isn't heavy as shit is far too deep in whatever obscure subgenre of extreme metal they like to have an objective opinion.

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u/sup3rdr01d Spotify Metal 6d ago

I'm a big fan of all types of metal, extreme metal, modern metal, etc

But something about those early/mid 2000s metal guitar tones is just brutal in a way newer bands aren't.

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u/Freshness518 last.fm 5d ago

It really was such a good time for the genre. I was in middle school when their first album came out. I was just starting to get into Nu Metal with Linkin Park and Limp Bizket stuff. But then when the Resident Evil movie came out and I saw/heard the music video for My Plague I was like oh fuck, this is like nothing I've heard before. Picked up their first 2 albums, played that shit on repeat throughout high school, loved em enough to go see them in concert when they were on tour for their 3rd album my senior year with Killswitch and Slayer and Soulfly.

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u/tequilasauer 6d ago

Same boat. A lot of it was Ross Robinson's production. Iowa seems SO aggressive to me, even now where I'm listening to stuff like Ulcerate or Origin or whomever. Old Slipknot still hits hard as shit.

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u/R_V_Z 5d ago

Steven Wilson talked about this better than I can, but it has to do with how guitars are produced. Modern metal guitar recording is about stacking a ton of tracks, which can create too much of a wall of sound. Wilson essentially said it turns the guitars into a synth pad. When the production is a bit more stripped down the guitar's distortion has more granularity to it.

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u/sup3rdr01d Spotify Metal 5d ago

Yep. I record metal guitars and this is true.

The biggest reason I've seen besides multi tracking guitars (they've always been double tracked, for decades) is actually using real micd amps/cabs vs using amp sim plugins. The plugins don't sound as good unless you tune the instrument REALLY low, in which case the plugin actually handles the super low tuning better than a physical amp would.

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u/R_V_Z 5d ago

Yeah, double tracking is one thing, but some of these people are upwards of six (which I guess is sex tracking).

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u/whichwitch9 5d ago

Early 2000s was amazing for rock in general, even on the less heavy and alternative side.

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u/drinfernodds 5d ago

Queens of the Stone Age dropped a masterpiece with Songs for the Deaf.

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u/Everestkid 6d ago

I got Iowa as a Christmas gift from my brother, who listened to even heavier stuff as a teenager.

Even he said something like "I don't know why you wanna listen to this, but alright, here you go."

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u/mr_glide 5d ago

Yes, and I suppose your opinion is immensely objective