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Antennas to Hell is the first greatest hits compilation album by American heavy metal band Slipknot.The album was released on July 23, 2012, in the United Kingdom and July 24, 2012, in the United States by Roadrunner Records.
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa.The band was founded in 1995 by vocalist Anders Colsefni, guitarists Donnie Steele and Josh Brainard, bassist Paul Gray, drummer Joey Jordison and percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan, who released the group's first demo Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. in 1996. [1]
The release topped the Music Video charts in the US and the UK. [15] [16] A compilation album, Antennas to Hell, followed in 2012. [17] After returning to touring in 2011 with former guitarist Donnie Steele on bass, [18] Slipknot also parted ways with Joey Jordison in 2013 in controversial circumstances. [19]
"Before I Forget" is widely regarded as one of the band's best songs. In 2020, Kerrang and Louder Sound ranked the song number seven and number six, respectively, on their lists of the greatest Slipknot songs. [5] [6] After being nominated six times, the band won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.
"Duality" is a song by American heavy metal band Slipknot. It was released on May 4, 2004, as the first single from the band's third album, Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses). A music video was made for the song, which was listed as Roadrunner's greatest video of all time. [4] [5]
"Skeptic" was also included at number 99 on Spin magazine's list of the 101 Best Songs of 2014. [6] Describing the song as "one of the year's most affecting love songs" that takes Slipknot "to surprisingly maudlin heights on the scream-along chorus", the magazine also noted it as "a rare unmasked moment for the enduring septet".
In 2008, the song was featured on the soundtrack to Marvel's Punisher: War Zone. [7] "Psychosocial", along with two other Slipknot songs, "Duality" and "Sulfur," was released as downloadable content for Rock Band and Rock Band 2 on December 8, 2009. [8] It is also featured as a playable track in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.
The song was also named the 36th greatest metal song of all time by VH1. [47] The release of the album and the touring which followed greatly increased the band's popularity. The album became the "biggest selling extreme metal album" at the time. [48] It was ranked by American SoundScan as the fastest-selling metal debut in SoundScan's history ...