.5: The Gray Chapter

While I wasn't a fan of Slipknot's first two albums, I think they created a solid balance on their last two projects Vol. 3 and All Hope Is Gone. For me, Self-titled has the highest highs, but outside of a few amazing tracks, the album suffers from being really samey and repetitive. Iowa was an album I didn't like anything from pretty much, that whole album was just a miss for me. It wasn't mediocre, but more-so kinda annoying and lacking effort.

On their last two albums before this one, while they still had some misses, they were able to put their amazing potential to work to make a fully enjoyable album, with more bangers than duds, for the most part. On their first record, for example, they had incredible highlights, but that potential didn't translate into a full record for me.

As much as I didn't really LOVE any of their albums and didn't like the first two, I liked the band a lot anyway, just because I respected them a lot and I LOVED some certain songs.

Now, going into ".5: The Grey Chapter", Slipknot, unfortunately, takes the more commercial side of their last two albums and makes an unmemorable bland record. Tracks like Killpop or the intro track are perfect examples of that.

Not to mention, almost every song is at least 4 minutes long up to 6, which is a crazy length for so many mediocre songs.

Going back into the Slipknot album analogy, this record still has highlights, but just doesn't work as a full album package, due to the number of filler tracks compared to the good ones.

FAV TRACKS: The Devil In I, AOV, The One That Kills The Least, The Negative One
LEAST FAV TRACKS: Leach, Custer, Nomadic, Skeptic