Released in August 2019, is Slipknot’s sixth studio album and is widely regarded as one of the most ambitious and experimental records of their career. It marked a "return to form," blending the raw intensity of their seminal album Iowa with the melodic experimentation found in Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) . Musical Direction and Sound
The curveball. A jazzy, piano-driven, almost goth-rock track. Corey sings like a lounge lizard possessed. The 320kbps encoding gives the piano decay a natural resonance. It’s unsettling, brilliant, and unlike anything they’ve done. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind -2019- -320 KBPS-
The album opens with a cinematic, synth-wave adjacent instrumental. This track is a litmus test for your file quality. At 96 or 128 KBPS, the reverb tails on the piano sounds grainy and digital. At 320 KBPS, the atmosphere breathes. You hear the vinyl crackle effects clearly, setting the stage for the brutality that follows in "Unsainted." We Are Not Your Kind Released in August