Slipknot ‘The Devil In I’ – The Song of the Week for 9/22/2014

Released August 25, 2014 via Roadrunner Records, “The Devil In I” is the 2nd single off of .5:  The Gray Chapter, the 5th studio album by Slipknot

If you tuned in last week, you saw the rarity of a metal song being chosen as Song of the Week but here we are again with another one. I have quite a few alternative songs I want to feature here on the site as Song of the Week but the respective bands haven’t released videos for the songs yet. So I dove back in to my ‘Best New Music of 2014’ Spotify playlist that I continually update to figure out what other song I could feature. Oh yeah! These first two Slipknot songs to be released off their upcoming album are actually really good. So good in fact, I can honestly say that I haven’t been this impressed with the band since their fantastic debut album, 1999’s Slipknot. And while I personally think 1st single “The Negative One” (embedded below) is the better song, “The Devil In I” has an incredible video. This thing is a glorified 6-minute horror movie and a great way to reintroduce the band, their new masks, their new material after a 6 year album drought. What took so long? Well, the band has taken 3 years, 4 years, and 6 years between their last 3 albums, respectively, so it is nothing new. But these last few years have been a trying time for band, notably due to the death of one of the founding members, Paul Gray. Lead singer Corey Taylor also has a very successful side project with the band Stone Sour, a more straight-forward hard rock/alternative metal band, compared to Slipknot.

Want to preview more Slipknot material? Check out the 5 songs Music Trajectory deems as best in Slipknot’s discography in the Rdio player below.

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“Under the words of men
Something is tempting the father
Where is your will, my friend?
Insatiates never even bother
You and I, wrong or right
Traded a lie for the leverage
In between the lens in light
You’re not what you seem”