Slipknot celebrate 10th debut anniversary

10 years. That's a really long time for such an extreme band like Slipknot and therefore all the more encouraging for all the fans that the journey took far and is still no end in sight. On this occasion, 9 anarchists now an anniversary edition of their debut album from 1999, in addition to standard songs still 10 bonus tracks and a by none other than Mr. Shawn "Clown" Crahan publish personally created bonus DVD contains.

I probably do not need anything more to add to the album itself. Enough has been said and written to over the past 10 years, it was startling and new, interesting and multi-layered, just completely different than anything that had hitherto ever heard. These qualities have still not lost the first sprout of Iowa Neuner, he has everything accounted for Slipknot at this time and the myth of the masked Overall carrier created.

Now finally, the fans have the "complete package" with all bonus tracks and interesting insights behind the scenes available. No fewer than 10 songs have been additionally packed with the anniversary edition, including the long-lost "Purity", which had to be removed shortly after the first publication of the album for legal reasons to the regret of the fans again, and previously unreleased demos (Wait And Bleed, Snap ) and various remixes of known classics like Spit It Out, (sic) and Wait And Bleed.

As a very special treat of inclined fan receives also still a full bonus DVD of the hand that is an experience in itself. The band documentary "Of The (sic): Your Nightmares, Our Dreams" granted in about 50 well-filled minutes a deep insight into the chaotic world of standing still at the beginning of their tremendous career musician. It is evident that here Shawn Crahan was at work that creates it once more, around Slipknot from his very own distinctive vision to capture the world and reveals scenes where different camera would have long since switched off. For fans and everyone who wants to be there, very interesting and well worth seeing, you feel a lot closer to his idols.

The second part of the DVD consists of the complete live concert at the Dynamo Open Air 2000 in Holland, where the nine mask support an energetic, powerful setlist consisting of classics like (sic), Wait And Bleed, Eyeless and Spit It Out and some now rare played pieces like Purity, No Life Prosthetics or give the best. The sound is perhaps not so superlatively well as are used, some fans of the Disasterpieces DVD, but at this time Slipknot were just still in the starting blocks their steep musical career and did not have the technical possibilities it a few years later due to their large international could enjoy success. Despite everything, the appearance is absolutely worth seeing and offers a nice complement to the documentation where one was made in several sequences repeatedly with live excerpts hungry. Finally, the DVD offers even the music videos for the singles Spit It Out, Wait And Bleed (also in the animated version) and Surfacing. A nice extra that the DVD rounds out definitively.

Conclusion: If you do not already have as a fan of this exceptional band whose debut album, should access quickly here. The award is presented for this jam-packed digipack absolutely fine and also for fans who can call their own, the album already, an indispensable complement. From quite clear to me 5 *****!