10 Greatest Closing Tracks In Metal

Speaking of nu metal, no other band combined the extreme side of the spectrum quite like Slipknot. Before you had even seen these guys in their horrifying stage masks, their brand of metal fury seemed to take every single extreme genre of rock and turn them up to the nth degree. Even though fans were well aware of this kind of extremity on the group's debut, not even the hardest metalheads could have prepared themselves for something like Iowa.

From front to back, this entire record is one big release of anger, with tracks that span thrash metal, death metal, and even black metal into its own twisted image. Whereas the rest of the album was filled with balls-to-the-wall slamfests, the darkness ended up getting painfully real on the final eponymous track, as Corey Taylor talks about stumbling across a corpse and... doing some very questionable things to it.

What's more is the actual torturous way the band actually recorded this tune, with the final take leaving Taylor nude in the middle of the studio floor after having cut himself up and vomited during the take. This might be the one instance where a song couldn't be done any more times because of the actual physical toll in took on the artist to actually record it. While it might be easy to just laugh off the more goofy sides of Slipknot, this type of pitch black demeanor is still more than most metalheads would be willing to stomach.