Why Slipknot’s We Are Not Your Kind Is The Best Album Of 2019
This time last year, Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan was sat with Kerrang! in a truck on the driveway of his Des Moines home, cryptically alluding to Slipknot’s sixth album – the details of which were still very much under wraps. “Let me tell you, this one’s biblical,” he smirked in a typically brash and self-assured manner. “You have no idea what’s coming next…” Hyperbole has often followed Slipknot around – not least because it often comes from the mouth of Clown himself – but in this case, it would turn out to be justified. At the time, the band’s founding member was still working within We Are Not Your Kind’s intensive four-year creative process, finalising plans for The Nine’s elaborate release schedule, as well as their all-new masks and the actual contents of the album itself. In jus...
