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Slipknot's 'We Are Not Your Kind' storms to number one in eight countries

They're dominating charts across the globe

Slipknot's Mick Thomson
Author: Scott ColothanPublished 20th Aug 2019

Slipknot’s ‘We Are Not Your Kind’ has stormed to number one in eight countries around the globe since its release earlier this month.

The Iowan masked metallers topped the Official UK Album Chart last Friday, ending the four-week reign of Ed Sheeran in the process, and over the weekend it was announced they had hit number one on the US Billboard Chart with impressive sales of 118,000 equivalent album units.

Slipknot's ‘We Are Not Your Kind’ has also reached the chart summit in Ireland, Australian, Japan, Canada, Belgium and Finland.

On top of this, ‘We Are Not Your Kind’ is also a Top 5 album in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

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Slipknot in 2000

Slipknot wearing trademark white boiler suits and their horrorshow masks in 2000.

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Slipknot on the sleeve of their fearsome, self-titled debut album in June 1999.

Speaking to Kerrang! Radio’s Loz Guest about the widespread success of their sixth album, Corey Taylor said it was a “shot in the arm for the mainstream.”

Asked whether their chart conquering is a boost for heavy metal music, Corey replied: “I think it’s a shot in the arm for the mainstream, for the zeitgeist. We all know metal has been exciting a lot longer than it’s had the share of the attention.

“Our day in the sun kinda comes and goes – every 10 years it peaks and then we split again, like people turn against us, they’ll push us back into the underground, which is fine as it’s good for our sensibilities. And then it comes. It sort of ebbs and flows; it comes in waves.”

He continued: “I love the reaction of people getting metal, like finding metal for the first time and thinking ‘woah, where has this been my whole life?!’ And knowing that there’s a whole history of metal, not just us but newer bands like Knocked Loose and Code Orange, older bands like Judas Priest and (Black) Sabbath, and everything in-between that made us love (metal) like Metallica and Iron Maiden and Slayer. There’s so much.

“Once you become a metal fan there’s so much to explore that it feels really good to be a cog in that machine. If that’s what we’re doing, which is giving people a peek inside a gigantic world that really is inclusive, but at the same time exclusive, then yeah, let’s do this man!”

Slipknot will tour the UK in 2020 taking in shows in Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Sheffield, Nottingham, Cardiff, Birmingham and London. The exact venues and dates will be released imminently.

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