SLIPKNOT Frontman Talks 'Iowa' 10th-Anniversary Reissue In New Video Clip

September 30, 2011

It's been 10 years since SLIPKNOT unleashed its second album, "Iowa", on the world. SLIPKNOT had impacted the music scene in revolutionary, unpredictable ways and established themselves as a way of life for their fans with their self-titled 1999 debut. But "Iowa" was the album that further proved the band had fully arrived and had no intentions of leaving. It was the band's statement that that they would continue to make music their way, according to their rules and always for their fans, with their middle fingers pointed firmly at the rest of the world.

To celebrate the album's decade of existence, the band is releasing a special, tenth-anniversary edition of this landmark release, which will drop on November 1.

The anniversary edition will include plenty of extras for the maggots and beyond to feast upon. Disc One will comprise the original "Iowa" album along with a remix of "My Plague" as an added bonus track. Disc Two will include the full live audio from the legendary "Disasterpieces" DVD, where the band's 2002 show at the London Arena was captured by 30 cameras and released as a concert film. The DVD will include "Goat", a new film directed by M. Shawn Crahan featuring never-before-seen interviews and footage showing the madness that surrounded the "Iowa" era, plus four music videos.

The official track listings are as follows:

Disc 1:

"Iowa"

01. (515)
02. People = Shit
03. Disasterpiece
04. My Plague
05. Everything Ends
06. The Heretic Anthem
07. Gently
08. Left Behind
09. The Shape
10. I Am Hated
11. Skin Ticket
12. New Abortion
13. Metabolic
14. Iowa
15. My Plague (New Abuse Mix)

Disc 2:

Disasterpieces - Live In London 2002

01. (515)
02. People = Shit
03. Liberate
04. Left Behind
05. Eeyore
06. Disasterpiece
07. Purity
08. Gently
09. Eyeless
10. Drum Solo
11. My Plague
12. New Abortion
13. The Heretic Anthem
14. Spit It Out
15. Wait And Bleed
16. 742617000027
17. (sic)
18. Surfacing

Disc 3:

* Goat (hour-long film capturing the insanity of Iowa, directed by M. Shawn Crahan.

Music Videos:

* My Plague
* Left Behind
* The Heretic Anthem (Live)
* People = Shit (Live)

Video footage of SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor giving a little background on what went into making "Iowa" and offering some of his feelings on the record can be seen below.

In other SLIPKNOT news, the band is bringing four tracks spanning their career to the Rock Band video game. Fans can download and play along to "Wait And Bleed", "Left Behind", "Pulse Of The Maggots" and "Snuff" in Rock Band 3, available on September 27.

The special-edition CD/DVD reissue of SLIPKNOT's self-titled debut album which came out in September 2009 sold around 4,600 copies in the United States in its first, shortened week of release (the set came out on Wednesday, September 9 whereas new albums usually go on sale on Tuesdays in the U.S.). The album has shifted more than two million units domestically, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

SLIPKNOT completed a European festival run earlier this summer, which marked the band's first live gigs since bassist Paul Gray's passing.

SLIPKNOT's last record, "All Hope Is Gone", was released in 2008.

Corey Taylor talking about "Iowa":

Trailer for 10th-anniversary edition of "Iowa":

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