“Dead Memories” by Slipknot

"Dead Memories" was the third single off All Hope Is Gone, Slipknot's fourth album, and Roadrunner sent it out in 2008. Dave Fortman produced it with the band, Matt Hyde and Jeremy Parker engineered and Colin Richardson mixed, and it's alternative metal with the armor loosened. Corey Taylor has said he'd just come through an ugly divorce, and he used the song to shed the regret and cynicism it left behind; he found the whole thing cathartic.

P. R. Brown directed the video from a treatment dreamed up by percussionist Shawn Crahan, who called it a short film and admitted it cost plenty. A 15-second teaser put Taylor in what looked like a grave under pounding rain, and the full clip premiered in October 2008 on Headbangers Ball, part of the show's 20th anniversary programming.

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