Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind: Every Song Ranked From Worst To Best
8. Spiders
Shawn Crahan's influence on Slipknot's songwriting comes to the forefront on "Spiders": an eerie, experimental stomp that opens the album's expansive third act.
The song sounds nothing and everything like Slipknot at once in that the tones and timbres stretch far beyond the band's usual lexicon, though the grimy, unsettling atmosphere remains. This is exactly what Taylor was talking about when he promised experimentation without sacrificing Slipknot's identity. It's a bold achievement.
"Spiders" begins with stabbing piano notes over a hefty. hammering bassline. This build to one of WANYK's most memorable choruses as Taylor sings "the spiders come in side by side, two by two and night by night, who is food and who is thrown away?". Two minutes in and a hellish lead guitar line takes over before a cyborg-like vocal chants the title like a mantra, leading to the most Crahan moment of all: a falsetto choral line that resembles something straight from To My Surprise, Clown's short-lived side project.
This is true experimentation. Slipknot have evolved; "Spiders" is proof.