On this day in Slipknot history, Slipknot left Des Moines, Iowa for Indigo Ranch Studios in Malibu, California, anxious to record an album after a long wait to be signed...
Setlist: (sic), Eyeless, Wait and Bleed, Liberate, Surfacing, Purity, Prosthetics, Spit It Out & Eeyore
...selling more than 500,000 copies.
Slipknot's first major headlining tour.
...We wrote the whole second album in about three-and-a-half weeks..." - Corey Taylor
Monte Conner: “Everyone thought they were gonna make the wimp-out record and become more mainstream...and they turned around and made a record that was substantially heavier. When I first heard it I loved it, but as a label guy I thought, ‘What are we gonna do with this?’” Clown: “When we did IOWA, we hated each other. We hated the world. The world hated us.” Jim: “It was so exciting as well as scary to be part of this huge process.” Corey: “The only way to describe this album is like a Zeitgeist’s hangover. Suddenly we were front page news and people were wearing our t-shirts on TV shows like Absolutely Fabulous. It was really, really weird. Looking back it’s hard for me to believe that I’m even the same physical being as I was during that time. I was someone who wasn’t even looking for hope because I’d become interwined with darkness. You only have to listen to the record to hear that.”
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9 cover special
RR UK interviewed the woman behind booking Slipknot for TFI Friday back in 2000...
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