“Circle” by Slipknot

"Circle" turns up on Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), the third Slipknot album, which Roadrunner put out in 2004, the only one Rick Rubin produced for them. Greg Fidelman recorded and mixed it, the band arranged it, and the writing credit is split eight ways: Shawn Crahan, Chris Fehn, Paul Gray, Craig Jones, Joey Jordison, Jim Root, Corey Taylor and Mick Thomson.

Getting there was messy. After the 2002 tour, side projects like Murderdolls, To My Surprise and a revived Stone Sour set off talk about the band's future, and once they moved into The Mansion in 2003, not much happened at first, with Taylor drinking hard. They still came out with more songs than they needed, and a record that let melody, guitar solos and acoustic instruments into the Slipknot sound for the first time.

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