Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind: Every Song Ranked From Worst To Best

14. Death Because Of Death

Ranking We Are Not Your Kind's interludes against full-length songs is tough. They exist to bridge gaps, not stand out on their own, and that almost necessitates their low positioning.

"Death Because of Death" works. It serves its purpose. It takes WANYK from the ugliness of "Birth of the Cruel" to the crushing, arena-sized "Nero Forte" seamlessly and while it doesn't stand out, it wasn't calibrated to.

Starting off sounding like a strangled 16-bit videogame soundtrack, it soon gives way to tribal drums and the haunting "death because of, death because of you" mantra. It maintains the album's overall tone in a way that may not have been possible had the tracks before and after fed into each other directly.

But it's still an interlude.