10 Best Metal Albums Of The 2000s - Ranked
2. Slipknot – Iowa
Slipknot’s most technical outing by far, Iowa takes everything that was good about the original album and turns it up to eleven. For starters, this record is way heavier than anything the band released before or after, and its technicality was unseen in nu metal.
The band are all on fire with their instrumental performances, but Corey Taylor’s intense vocals and Joey Jordison’s machine gun-drumming standing head and shoulders above the rest once again. While this can be misconstrued as “over-the-top”, it is this creative direction that is crucial to the band’s vision, and it is exhilarating.
Iowa has so many memorable tracks, People = Sh*t, Disasterpiece, The Heretic Anthem, and Left Behind to name just a few, and has not only provided fans with years of entertainment but provided Slipknot with several live staples for their set-list.
This album is nu metal personified, and is sheer heavy perfection, taking the genre to levels that many of it’s artists have seldom been...