08/28/2025
Slipknot released their second studio album "IOWA" 24 yrs ago on August 28, 2001. Featuring singles; "Left Behind" and "My Plague". It reached no. 3 on the Billboard 200 album chart. RIAA-certified-Platinum
Recording Sessions at Sound City- Studio A
Jan 22 - March 14, 2001
Producers: Ross Robinson, Slipknot
Engineers: Mike Fraser, Mike Terry
"Recording Iowa was fu***ng hell," recalled Shawn Crahan. "I wanted to kill myself. There was drugs, bi***es, rock 'n' roll, all that s**t. People expected so much of us then. 'People = S**t' was our way of saying, 'F**k off and leave us alone.'" "There was nothing happy about Iowa," confirmed Taylor. "All of a sudden we were these metal stars and we weren't really planning for it… We'd all got caught up in the lifestyle and the problems that come with that.
A darkness set in at the beginning of Iowa that none of us quite recognised." Jordison, however, noted, "Iowa, even more than the first record, was the album we really wanted to make." (Kerrang 7/14/12)
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