r/Music • u/imatmydesknow Concertgoer • 9d 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/HadesWTF 9d ago

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

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u/misho8723 9d 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/tequilasauer 9d ago

There are extreme metal drummers who have said that album was the first time they heard blast beats. Not Pete Sandoval, not Derek Roddy, but Joey. Iowa was a massive influence on people getting into heavy music just because of how huge it sold and how into the mainstream Slipknot managed to get. Seeing Wait and Bleed and Heretic Anthem on late night television. Just mindblowing.

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u/Abombasnow 9d ago

It makes me happy that Joey got to be in a death metal band before he died. You can tell that probably made him so happy with how he played drums.