Song · Slipknot
“Killpop” by Slipknot
From the album .5: The Gray Chapter (2014)
“Killpop” by Slipknot appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2015. It was first released in 2014 on the album .5: The Gray Chapter. Its best result is #8 on the SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #8 hard rock song of 2015 and #254 of the '10s.
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"Killpop" is one of the singles Slipknot pulled from .5: The Gray Chapter, their fifth major-label studio album: the fifth promo track and the fourth single overall, officially out in October 2014 after it had already leaked a couple of weeks before. Like the promos ahead of it, it came wrapped in its own cover art, and it reached shops as a retail single in April 2015.
Fans spent those weeks guessing what it was about, and frontman Corey Taylor said they were all nowhere close. The woman in the song is music itself, and the music business with it, a love-hate relationship that comes right to the surface here. Joe Barresi mixed it, and the whole band shares the writing credit.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2015 | 30 |
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