“Don’t make it weird…”

“They all wear jumpsuits, they’re kinda like KISS because you don’t know what they look like, but they kinda look like serial killers because they all have masks on, and you kinda get Purge vibes when you look at it (the album cover), and then you LISTEN to it…”

SLIPKNOT as a band is extremely off-putting, exhausting, and quite frankly, disturbing, and their self-titled debut album conveys these qualities in the darkest way possible. The album cover alone is the stuff of horror movies and nightmares, featuring all nine members clothed in red prison jumpsuits with their faces covered in grotesquely disfigured masks: nameless and faceless, with only a number and a barcode to identify them. 

Find out more about the latest government study regarding “the medical benefits of bat vagina” and remember that “you’ve never seen Al Gore and Paul Stanley in the same place”.

Discover who knows “how to use the phone”, put on your “Salad Face”, and be sure to “liberate bananas” when you JOIN US as we dive into the angry, uncomfortable darkness that is SLIPKNOT.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “This is how you know you’re getting old…”/ #oldmancoughs / “I’m gonna go black this time…”/ “The medical benefits of bat vagina…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #asianstyleASMR / “Does everybody know that?” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST IN DIGITAL DOLBY SURROUND SOUND!!!*** / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode / #markthetime / #TerrapinBrewery #EspressoMartiniImperialWhiteStout #ninepercentABV / “That’s a chug…”/ #JitteryJoes / ***IF YOU WANNA SKIP THE NONSENSE, GO TO #THEDOCKET *** / “It tastes like a coffee stout mixed with a light beer…”/ “It’s got a corporate coffee carpet flavor…”/ #thatsnotamilkshake / “Where else do you get sugar?” / “WHOA!” / “I’m not gonna give you a recordable here…”/ Proteins and carbs/ “Hand me the horn, I’m feeling stressed…”/ “Meat is not what is fucking up your cholesterol…”/ #carbsaretheenemy / “Does Santa Claus come up from the septic tank now?” / #everythingisalie / #markallthetimes 

(12:50): “But first…”/ PATREON SHOUT OUT (courtesy of Russell) / ***JOIN US on the #Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast *** / “Just give me yeahs and oohs…let’s see if Matt can NOT say a word while you do it…”/ “Speaking of emails…”/ ***You can email us at [email protected] *** / #KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard / “That’s totally a great impression of me…”/ #eclectic / #whatsitcalled / “You’ve never seen Al Gore and Paul Stanley in the same place…”/ “It’s a Patreon comment…”/ WE’LL PLAY YOUR SHIT-TAH!!! / #GodBelow / “If I was gonna dye my beard…”/ #saladface #wizardcamouflage / (***From “Painted Images With The Blood Of…”***) / STILL NOT QUITE SUICIDE / “There’s no play button…”/ #thickandfull / “I like the harmonies…” / “And we have a voicemail…”/ ***IF YOU WANNA GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL YOU CAN DO SO AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #anonymouscaller / “That sounds like #PissingPost on a blackout bender…”/ “Would it be weird…?” / NOTE:  I believe Russell is wildly incorrect in his assertion…/ “You can identify however you want on this show…we want to know who you are…”/ #dontmakeitweird

(31:27): “What’s on #TheDocket?” / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: SLIPKNOT!!! / #Slipknot #RussellsReflectionsSlipknotEdition / “Real tall…like basketball players…”/ “There’s 9 or 10…”/ “That band is the epitome of our warning…their album cover looks like the stuff of nightmares…”/ Released on June 29, 1999 / Hailing from Des Moines, Iowa / 742617000027 / (SIC) / “If you let someone borrow a book and you never see it again…you’ve passed on knowledge…”/ #CoreyTaylor #SevenDeadlySins #Author / “When do y’all think you got on the #Slipknot boat?” / #funkmetal / “That’s one of y’all’s songs, wasn’t it? Wait, did you sing on that one?” / EYELESS / “It’s like #Slayer #KoRn and #Pantera all mixed into one…” / “Well, not really…but it’s good.”

(49:10): “When we walked through the gates at Lakewood, this is what they were playing…”/ WAIT AND BLEED / “Dude, are you an octopus?” / “Yeah, this…they did this a LONG time…”/ SURFACING (“You always like the build, don’t you?”) / “The best chorus in metal…”/ “They’re coming this summer…so no excuses…”/ “I like the purple…”/ #GrapeNerds / SPIT IT OUT / “Tattered and torn…shaven and shorn?” / TATTERED & TORN / “It’s off putting…”/ “It’s gotta GO somewhere…”/ Art is subjective / “No, it’s Me Inside…”/ #reissue / ME INSIDE / “The next one is called ‘Liberate Bananas’…”/ LIBERATE / #liberatebananas / “It’s bananas!” 

(1:03:44): PROSTHETICS / “It’s gotta go somewhere…it’s GOT to, mister…”/ “That’s somebody’s favorite song…” / NO LIFE / “You’re butchering it…you were sticking your finger up the butthole of the song…”/ #hailyeah / DILUTED / “What the hell did I do to deserve all of this!?” / ONLY ONE / “Name that song…name it…that’s a band not a song…”/ “I didn’t realize they did that much rap stuff…”/ “That little breath there was perfect…”/ SCISSORS / #rightthere / “Don’t scissor with that!”/ #skipahead / EEYORE / “This makes me want to break everything!” / “Get some of THAT!”/ “That is the soundtrack to #America right there!” / “If you start strong, it’s only gonna get better…”/ ***We do also have a Slipknot #ITM episode and the #Knotfest concert review*** / #dilated #untilthenext / ***THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!!*** / #outroreel