Slipknot's ".5: The Gray Chapter" should be added to The Pit
I've just had my first Slipknot full-album experience by checking out their 5th album .5: The Gray Chapter. Although there's a lot of the nu/alt-metal the band is known for, I find it much different from the more popular nu metal releases from the first half of the 2000s by Evanescence, Linkin Park, and Godsmack. Many of the songs have killer heavier riffing and drumming ranging from the vicious speed of thrash to the mid-tempo stomping of groove, enough to warrant great potential in The Pit. Here's my genre analysis for the 14 tracks of the album:
1. XIX - quasi-orchestral intro
2. Sarcastrophe - thrash metal/groove metal/death metal
3. AOV - thrash metal/nu metal/progressive metal
4. The Devil in I - groove metal/nu metal/sludge metal
5. Killpop - alternative metal/nu metal/industrial metal
6. Skeptic - thrash metal/groove metal/alternative metal
7. Lech - groove metal/thrash metal/nu metal
8. Goodbye - alternative rock/electronic rock/alternative metal
9. Nomadic - thrash metal/groove metal/nu metal
10. The One That Kills the Least - nu metal/alternative metal
11. Custer - thrash metal/nu metal/death metal
12. Be Prepared for Hell - ambient interlude
13. The Negative One - nu metal/thrash metal/grindcore
14. If Rain Is What You Want - alternative rock/alternative metal
Primary genres: Thrash metal, groove metal, nu metal, alternative metal
Secondary genres: Death metal, alternative rock
With that I'd like to send Slipknot's ".5: The Gray Chapter" to the Hall with two entries for the album to be added to the Pit as 1. thrash metal and 2. groove metal, while maintaining its position in The Gateway with nu metal and alternative metal.
