Slipknot - Iowa

It’s still amazing nearly 25 years on how brutal, yet multilayered, it all sounds. Everything is detuned to 11 – the guitars, the lyrics, the carnage! It sounds like a band making an album as if their lives depend on it – which they probably did in many ways. Lead single ‘Left Behind”s chorus-verse structure and hummable riff certainly endeared them to a much wider audience than ever before. Tracks like ‘People = Shit’ and ‘The Heretic Anthem’ are perfect examples of the chaos that ensued here. (un)officially the heaviest album ever to top the UK charts.