Eagle Rock Entertainment have officially announced and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of Slipknot: {sic}nesses - Live at Download. The release will be available for purchase online and in shops across the United States on July 31.
Filmed in high-definition and newly remixed in DTS-HD Master Audio and LPCM Stereo, Slipknot's 18-song 159-minute performance at Download Festival is the kind of event that only Blu-ray can come close to capturing. The date was June 13, 2009, and Slipknot headlined Download, a three-day event held annually in Donington Park, England, in front of 80,000+. The band have since played bigger stages and to bigger crowds, but Download '09 stands unquestionably as a career highlight for the Iowa band, and their excitement on stage is palpable.
Included is a 45-minute documentary directed by the band's M. Shawn Crahan aka Clown, Audible Visions Of {sic}nesses, as well as music videos for the songs "Psychosocial," "Dead Memories," "Sulfur," the short film "Snuff" (directed by M. Shawn Crahan and Paul Brown), plus "The Making of Snuff."
PERSONNEL: Sid Wilson (#0) – turntables; Joey Jordison (#1) – drums; Paul Gray (#2) – bass; Chris Fehn (#3) – custom percussion; Jim Root (#4) – guitars; Craig "133" Jones (#5) – sampling; Shawn "Clown" Crahan (#6) – custom percussion; Mick Thomson (#7) – guitars; Corey Taylor (#8) – lead vocals.
Tracklising:
1) 742617000027
2) (sic)
3) Eyeless
4) Wait And Bleed
5) Get This
6) Before I Forget
7) Sulfur
8) The Blister Exists
9) Dead Memories
10) Left Behind
11) Disasterpiece
12) Vermilion
13) Everything Ends
14) Psychosocial
15) Duality
16) People = Shit
17) Surfacing
18) Spit It Out
As a guitar player, I always have to laugh a little bit when I hear a kat like Mick Thompson talk about "tone"
In a band with like 37 members all beating the crap out of their instruments, could you non guitarplayers actually hear the difference when Mick switched from EMG to Seymour Duncan Blackout pickups??
Just curious, because if you read or see his product interviews, he talks like his sound is night and day from a year ago.
@Lucy, from guitarist to guitarist. if he's talkin about tone, he's more than likely talkin to the guitarist and not the non guitarplayers that wouldnt give a hoot if he were playin a gibson or bc rich as long as the songs rock.. i hear a distinct difference between the tones in Iowa and All Hope Is Gone
This is really annoying. I picked up the DVD last year, and now they are releasing the blu-ray? I love this band's music, but they release material in ways to get as much money out of their hardcore fans as they can (see the re-releases of recent CDs).
to each their own. all successful bands have been through their fair share. and where these guys are, they deserve to be there. they worked for it. you get what you put into it. slipknot songs do what they do and i like em. but i can admit he should take some lessons, the solos aren't fitting. but the riffs and guitar tones are good
I feel you both. I haven't heard a ton of slipknot's albums, but I have heard alot live and I think alot of "tone" gets lost in the mix with the other members.
I'm not knocking the guy at all, in fact I can really appreciate that a group of kats who just dig eachother got together and made it work for so long.
I guess what I'm getting at is that CLEARLY...seymour duncan offered him a bunch of cash and he switched over. When you are talking about active pickups, there isn't a huge different in attack and feel, but if you listen to him talk about them, he did all this finite tweaking of these tiny parameters and made the already "ultimate" EMG replacement even more ultimate. I just thought it was funny. And hey..if he can cut through in the mix with 97 other dudes on stage then more power to him. (no pun intended)
EDIT: Also...the two albums J mentioned were recorded with EMG pickups. He didn't switch to Seymour Duncan Blackouts until about a year or two ago.
And...I don't think the dude needs lessons at all for what he is doing. They mostly do dissonant discorded noisy music and I think he achieves that. Kerry King as stated in many interviews that he has no idea how to play solos but what he does works for Slayer, so he is perceived as an awesome lead player. Whatever works man. That's what Jimi would say.
The bottom line is you compare homeboy to say Kerry King of Slayer and you see that he does definately need lessons, cause he just doesn't cut it for a hardcore lead guitarist. They remind me of KISS, all image, not much substance. But give them credit, they are making the most of it.
And Lucy, Kerry plays many many solos, and if your comparing the two that is a joke. Kerry is one of the greatest and fastest guitar players ever.
Blackouts have a more tighter low end than emgs. the highs cut through a mix more distinctly. if yo're playing with less gain, i'd go with the blackouts. tbh, kerry king and thompson aren't that good at lead. technique wise they got it, but melody and overall in the context of the songs, i can't stand it. masters at rhythm though, you can't argue that
This sh,.. I mean this stuff,.. Yes? :/ Go figure. 
. but somehow Jimi and SRV got it right everytime 
