Song · Slipknot
“Nero Forte” by Slipknot
From the album We Are Not Your Kind (2019)
“Nero Forte” by Slipknot appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2019 and 2020. It was first released in 2019 on the album We Are Not Your Kind. Its best result is #1 on the KILO's Top 30 Kountdown of 2020. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #15 hard rock song of 2020 and #55 of the '20s.
Slipknot put "Nero Forte" on We Are Not Your Kind, their sixth studio album, in August 2019, and it went out as the record's fourth single that December, four months after "Birth of the Cruel". The title pairs the Italian words for black and strong, and forte can also mean the thing you do best. The song is about the darkness Corey Taylor sank into, a depression that loomed like a presence he couldn't find the strength to fight.
Jim Root called it a Clown song, heavy on percussion, a kind of next step from "Psychosocial". Taylor sings with Shawn Crahan on backing vocals, Root and Mick Thomson play guitar, Alessandro Venturella bass, Jay Weinberg drums, Craig Jones keyboards and Sid Wilson turntables. Greg Fidelman produced with the band, and Joe Barresi mixed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 30 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2019 | 30 |
| 2020 | 1 | 94.3 KILO Colorado Springs-Pueblo, CO | KILO's Top 30 Kountdown of 2020 | 30 |
| 2020 | 23 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2020 | 98 |
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