We Are Not Your Kind by Slipknot

We Are Not Your Kind, Slipknot's sixth album, hit on August 9, 2019, via Roadrunner, and it catches the Des Moines crew at their most ambitious and most unhinged. Jim Root and Shawn "Clown" Crahan started writing in early 2017; by Crahan's count the band piled up 22 songs and 26 interludes, and for a while the plan was a double album. They cut it at EastWest Studios in Hollywood starting in November 2018, with Greg Fidelman back as co-producer after .5: The Gray Chapter, and it is the only Slipknot record made as an eight-piece. The title comes from a line in "All Out Life".

The payoff is a heavy metal album that keeps swerving off the road: "Unsainted" charges like a stampede, while the slower, stranger corners wander places the band had never gone. Critics called it some of their best work, and it debuted at number one in America, their third album in a row to do it.

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