10 Most Underrated Slipknot Songs
2. Circle
The power ballad has been something that has hung like an albatross over every metal band's neck. For as many heavy bands have come to the forefront like Pantera or Metallica, there was always a "This Love" or "Fade to Black" to smooths things over with the crowd. Though Slipknot are no exception to the unspoken ballad rule, they always took the slower material on their own terms.
While a song like "Snuff" typically gets labelled as the ideal ballad from the band's catalog, there's a lot more depth to be found one record prior. With just a guitar and Corey's voice, "Circle" is the real tortured Slipknot ballad, as we hear the crippling tale of Taylor meeting his father for the first time.
Given the amount of lip service his father has gotten in previous songs like "Metabolic," the more frail and bare bones instrumentation paint a more vivid picture of the pain that comes without knowing an important figure in your life.
Though the song has beautiful instrumentation and some of the most melodic passages in the band's catalog, this was one of the few potential singles from Vol. III that remained an album track.
Even if it never got the recognition it deserved, "Circle" remains a little diamond interspersed amid the delightfully horrific cuts that the 9 have put out.