Is Slipknot's second album, the perfection in hardness? Of course not! Anyone who has ever heard a rational Grindcore, Death Metal and Black Metal album that matter, knows that there are indeed harder music that still remains varied. Nevertheless remains Slipknot "Iowa" an album that's not for the faint of heart. Joey Jordison bludgeons like crazy and indeed in the finest death metal style. Only sometimes feel you have the have to do that is less in contrast to its predecessor suffer the percussionists including. For the guitar playing has become much more diversified. Here one is not limited as in the debut on the root but sometimes even changes from verse to verse the reef (best example: Disasterpiece, New Abortion). Corey Taylor roars neatly through the area, but also often shows that he is a very good singer. In addition to absolute power numbers like "People = Shit" and "The Heretic Anthem" is also Slipknottypische, quiet, unsettling songs like "Gently", "Skin Ticket" and the 15-minute "Iowa" (formerly "Killers are Quiet") the one pulls through the hypnotic rhythm in the spell. Worth mentioning would be the nine-Psychos from Des Moines have given up on this record a kind of "Satanist" image, but what regarded as purely rebellious and should not be taken too seriously.
Subtitles Rating: (515) (- / -) People = Shit (5/5) Disasterpiece (5/5) My Plague (5/5) Everything Ends (5/5) The Heretic Anthem (5/5) Gently (5/5) Left Behind (4/5) The Shape (4/5) I Am Hated (5/5) Skin Ticket (3/5) New Abortion (5/5) Metabolic (4/5) Iowa (5/5)
Conclusion: Overall, "Iowa" as for Slipknot typically a lot more varied crash. It's probably the hardest thing you will find in the area of Nu Metal. At least Slipknot have proven that even in the hated Nu Metal Metal trace infected. In any case, it is their (so far) hardest plate. For me it would be their best, but in some places I lack the Psycho Illustrative what I liked on the debut so. Nevertheless 5 star for a class album.
