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Slipknot - 9.0: Live
Release: 2005Label: Roadrunner Records
By: Anders
Posted: Dec 19, 2005
A massive 2 CD live album recorded during Slipknot's "Vol: 3 (The Subliminal Verses)" world tour 2004 – 2005 has now been unleashed as a treat for the fans of the band and to celebrate the band's 10 year anniversary as well I guess. I can't help to draw references from this release to Slayer's live album from 1991 "Decade Of Aggression", a double live album recorded at different venues during a tour, by a band on the top of their career, which have had an amazing impact on the metal scene, is Slipknot the Slayer of this decade? We'll see that in time.
23 tracks and a drum solo delivered pretty energetic together with a noisy crowd which enjoys letting their voices be heard. The band seems on fire on the stage and the music works somewhat better in a live situation, than on their studio albums. Corey is over the stage-edge and has a good grip in the audience, as he screams and whines his way through the lyrics. The guitars are pumping heavy and frantically, and are only interrupted by the occasional scratch or sound-effect. The bass is heavy and rumbling and both the drumming and the percussion are effective, loud and all over the place. And Joey Jordison does show his skills during the many tracks, he is without a doubt a good drummer.
The recording and production of the material is good, the sound is very powerful and almost too clean at points, which makes it hard to believe it is a live recording, if it weren't for all Corey's talking between the numbers and the crowd-noises, it could have gone for a studio album, quite a shame, as the live feel and atmosphere is quite lost at times, only the feel of a "high ceiling" and the dynamic is what I recognize as the "real" live punch.
This is a sure buy for fans of Slipknot, strangely enough, perhaps also a good album, for people who are curious and want to check the band out, due to the high amount of tracks from all of their albums. A quite okay live album, even though I miss a more raw and "real" live sound. Now we only have to wait and see if time will make this album as legendary as "Decade Of Aggression".
23 tracks and a drum solo delivered pretty energetic together with a noisy crowd which enjoys letting their voices be heard. The band seems on fire on the stage and the music works somewhat better in a live situation, than on their studio albums. Corey is over the stage-edge and has a good grip in the audience, as he screams and whines his way through the lyrics. The guitars are pumping heavy and frantically, and are only interrupted by the occasional scratch or sound-effect. The bass is heavy and rumbling and both the drumming and the percussion are effective, loud and all over the place. And Joey Jordison does show his skills during the many tracks, he is without a doubt a good drummer.
The recording and production of the material is good, the sound is very powerful and almost too clean at points, which makes it hard to believe it is a live recording, if it weren't for all Corey's talking between the numbers and the crowd-noises, it could have gone for a studio album, quite a shame, as the live feel and atmosphere is quite lost at times, only the feel of a "high ceiling" and the dynamic is what I recognize as the "real" live punch.
This is a sure buy for fans of Slipknot, strangely enough, perhaps also a good album, for people who are curious and want to check the band out, due to the high amount of tracks from all of their albums. A quite okay live album, even though I miss a more raw and "real" live sound. Now we only have to wait and see if time will make this album as legendary as "Decade Of Aggression".
Rating: 7/10
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