Slipknot Video:

		List Price: $24.98		Label: Roadrunner Records Salesrank: 18058 Released: November 26, 2002
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		MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Media: DVD

Slipknot - Disasterpieces Reviews:
Confirms what I thought all along
2007-05-04 - Namely: Joey=genius, the rest of them=not, Cory=needs to be shot through the lungs. Not because I have a particular deathwish against the guy, but merely because that (or a similarly drastic action) is about the only thing that can save him from sounding as aweful as he does on this DVD. The opening first frames of the concert are of him screaming his throat out, and it doesn't get any better from there to the end. Even when he stops the screaming to sing the occasional line or two, it's mumbled, dispirited, as unmelodic as possible, and probably horribly off-key before a postproduction ProTools pitch shifter. (I have no way of proving this, I'm just saying.) Rather than be ashamed, like any self-respecting musician would be, he seems to wear this suck vacuum on his sleve; peppered throughout the DVD are totally unnecessary commands to the audience such as "JUMP!" (pronounced, like the jews, 'yump') or "SCREAM FOR ME LONDON!" or "Get your f*cking hands in the air!" (At least half a dozen times, that one, sometimes with a modifier: "Pump those fists! Make some noise!") or "Could I have my DJ back now please, is that alright?" or "Do you want something heavier motherf*ckers!" or "F*ck you! F*ck you! F*ck you! F*ck you!" or "Sing from the bottom of your heart to the top of your f*cking lungs!" (So that's... three inches?) or the rather terrifying "We are about to DESTROY this f*cking arena, my friends!" (At which point I have no doubt every security guard for half a mile started talking frantically up his sleve--I'm pretty sure this shot is not included on the DVD, but IMHO it would make the product ten times better just to include one half-second pan over the venue security simultaneously straightening their jackets and squaring their shoulders and looking very unhappy) or, my personal favorit: "C'mon dudes, this is gonna be crrruuushing!" If my eyes could roll any harder they would fall out of their sockets and plop onto the floor--the kind of thing that would apparently be right at home at a Slipknot concert. Furthermore--I dont' care what any Slipknot fan says--the lyrics are all but completely indecipherable. I know that right now half a million pimply-faced youths (TM) are swarming over their keyboards to correct me on this but before you do that all I ask is that you really listen to the middle of Liberate on this DVD. I'm sure you know what part i'm talking about--between the second verse and chorus where it sounds like the cookie monster saying the alphabet backwards and then spitting out a brussel sprout. I defy you to tell me that's English. It's not. IT can't be. The best you can hope for is to convince me that it's some sort of incantation to bring about a musical appocalypse--but then I remember that i'm reviewing a Slipknot DVD, not a Manson DVD, and that that would actually be cool, which Cory Taylor is clearly not.

That said: my disgust for Cori is equaled only by my admiration for "Joey" Jordison. The guy has only two speeds: fast and turbofast. While this is a bad thing in that he is almost always the reason why the slower songs like Wait and Bleed become medium-fast songs (he could learn a thing or two from Ginger Phish, he could), Slipknot doesn't have too many of those. (or didn't until subliminal verses Vol. III, but that wasn't released until after the DVD so none of those songs are on this.) Joey's not like traditional speed/death-metal drummers like Dave Lombardo or *insert your favorit Deathmetal favorit here*--rather than do blast beats all the way through and just mash on the doublebass as fast as humanly possible, Joey actualy uses all of his kit to the fullest. He never slows down, never gets tired, playing at 200BPM or faster pretty much the entire show--and the guy's practically a dwarf. Higher-profile drummers like Dannie Carey and Neil Piert don't play nearly as fast for as long as he does and their bodytypes are built for speed and endurance. Some have called Joey an "athlete, not a musician"; to them I say "You're missing the point. Your "musicians" can't do what Joey does. NO ONE can do what Joey does."

As for the rest of the performers: both the leed and rhythm guitars play their parts well, although James cocks up a solo or two; no big deal, that's what happens when you're visiting London for the first time in front of thousands of fans with cameras in your faces recording everything. Talk about stress. As previously stated this is before Subliminal Verses though, so most of the guitar parts that are played aren't too terribly difficult. Cid the DJ does a great job, although I'd be hard-pressed to explain exactly what it means to be a DJ and do a bad job. Moving right along, ahem. The bass, keyboards, and backup percussionists probably do a good job; unfortunately you can barely hear them at all which leads me right along to...

Sound quality. It's not great, and it's not terrible. Cori's vocals are way out in front--which I'd qualify as huge mistake #1 but I've already said everything I need to about that--then comes the guitars, then Joey. Considering how all-out Joey's drumming is I wish they would have been able to get him louder--the crash cymbals, in particular, are seriously wimpy--but Slipknot is hardly the only band to suffer from this problem. The bass guitar you can hear pretty much only durring Purity and... er, that one with the ludicrously long bass intro. This aint Dream Theater by a longshot; Slipknot is yet another in a long, long, LONG series of bands who have their bass way too low in the mix. Same with the backup percussionists; they don't play much, but when they do, it's barely noticeable over Joey's drumming; it just sounds like an odd sheet's been put over the tom or something. I mean if you're going to bother taking these guys and their instruments on tour you might as well let them be heard the five or six times they actually do something. Sheesh. As for the keyboard, if I was Greg, I would be filing lawsuits; if you just listen to the DVD you would have no idea that Slipknot even has a keyboardist. Bleh. The portions showing the concert preparation are naet; my only gripe is that they're inserted in the middle of the concert. Not at the beginning, or the end, or as a separate title, but spread out throughout the show, interrupting the flow of the concert to show people walking around and hauling amps on stage and whatnot. The soundcheck is also somewhat lacking; guitar check, then drum check (though it's rather amusing to see Joey doing straight deathmetal doublebassing over his soundcheck) and that's it. If yer gonna bother putting in a soundcheck, you might as well show more than two or three people out of 9. C'mon.

As it stands, Disasterpieces is the only live DVD Slipknot has. If you want to listen to the band sounding good, get one of their studio albums; all of my gripes about Cory's voice are completely moot on any of the studio albums, he sounds miles better there. If you want to hear the band live, I recommend getting 9.0 Live; the sound quality is a little better (namely Joey is turned up a lot and the bass is turned up a little and Cory's voice has reached the point where it's gotten used to the constant abuse so it doesn't sound like he's on the vurge of coughing up a lung) and since it's a 2-disc from 2005 you get a lot more songs. If you need, need, to *see* Slipknot live (Or just Joey--his drum solo is amazing and the second disc has a camera angle just under his ride symbol you can watch for the entirety of several songs), or if you--like me--disapprove of the Pearl JJ signature snare sound, then by all means, get this; like the footage or hate the footage, the footage that is captured is unarguably unique and special.

a reply to skymac...PWN3D
2007-04-18 - Slipknot decimates. (I could really leave it there, but I'll go on.) I am a huge slipknot fan, I saw them in concert, it was unforgettable. I am also a huge Disturbed and Stone Sour fan, in fact I listen to Iron Maiden too. Don't stereotpye the rest of us simply because you are too close minded to appreciate more than one narrow strip of a genre of music. By the way, if you like Stone Sour, you must like "Get Inside" and if you like "Get Inside" how can you not like sLipKnOT!!?? Oh, and one more thing, I sing along with all of the songs, I have no problem understanding the lyrics, maybe your mind is just too slow.

Slipknot = Awesome DVDs
2006-11-12 - Awesome DVD. I might even be the youngest Slipknot fan, being 10 and all. Amazing jump scene in Spit It Out, and exceptional drum solo from Joey(love the 2 story stage dive). I recommend this DVD to everyone that has never heard true speed metal before.

Talented Musicians Go Awry
2006-09-20 - Or another title could be: Hard Core Thrash Metal Fans Need Only Reply.

Stone Sour lead by Slipknot's singer Corey Taylor releases perhaps the best hard rock CD this year (2006). Stone Sour's 2006 disk is melodic hard rock, the singing is clear and there are songs on the disk that even my wife can listen to.

So I say to myself, maybe I need to give Slipknot another listen. Clearly I must have a mistaken impression of Slipknot if Corey Taylor and James Root's talent ring out so clear in Stone Sour. If Stone Sour is so good, can Slipknot really be that bad? YES!

If you're a more traditional Metal fan, Slipknot is unlistenable and Disasterpieces is unwatchable. Disasterpieces could not be more appropriately named.

Slipknot is a special breed of Metal, folks. If you're into the chaos that the likes of Unearth, Lamb of God and Cannibal Corpse put out then Slipknot and Disasterpieces are right up your alley.

If you like Iron Maiden, Disturbed or Stone Sour, Slipknot is nothing like them. Slipknot's music is all over the place. You can't understand the lyrics. It's total, absolute mayhem.

The DVD is just as chaotic as the music. You can't count to 2 before the shot changes. Strobe induced epileptics stay away!

There are guys in Slipknot that you wonder what they even do. One guy stands in front of and climbs on some giant kettle drums. But you never really hear them being played even when they show him playing them.

Joey Jordison's drumming was amazingly fast and precise. But it's wasted behind music that is incomprehensible.

Slipknot is a freakshow by design for fans looking for a hard-core spectacle...not someone looking for music.


My first live performance dvd.
2006-08-02 - When i bought this dvd i wondered if it would be any good because,i have never before bought a live performance dvd,but i must say this is a frekin good dvd . i mean with the live performances and music videos this is a must buy for anyone who likes the genre of music.