Masked metal maniacs Slipknot may well be loved by their fans for their usually savage songs, but this semi-acoustic track from their critically acclaimed fourth full-length 'All Hope Is Gone' shows a refreshing diversity to their trademark sound. Clearly influenced by frontman Corey Taylor's grunge side-project Stone Sour, this is more introspective and brooding than the Iowan nine-piece have ever sounded. It's a new confidence and the development of their songwriting abilities that's allowed them to not only write such a song but to fill it with the same intensity, albeit a different shade, as their usual aggressive assaults. More melodic it may be but Taylor is on fine form, singing with honesty and angst and delivering such wounded lyrics as "My heart is just too dark to care/I can't destroy what isn't there" and "So break yourself against my stones/And spit your pity in my soul/You never needed any help/You sold me out to save yourself." Slipknot have discovered a new darkness. Ian Chaddock~ Copyright (c) Shazam Entertainment Limited 2010. All rights reserved

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