SLIPKNOT: Slipknot Vinyl 2LP (25th Anniversary Ed. Indie Exclusive Jade)

Twenty-five years ago, nine kids from Des Moines showed up wearing boiler suits and Halloween masks and proceeded to absolutely destroy the concept of what a metal record could be. The self-titled debut, produced by Ross Robinson in the sweltering summer of 1999, remains one of the most visceral and genuinely frightening albums ever committed to tape. It still sounds like a car crash in a haunted house.

This 25th anniversary pressing comes on indie exclusive jade vinyl across two LPs, which is the kind of thing you buy because you actually love the record, not because you watched a YouTube video about record collecting. The self-titled is the one, the origin point, the album that launched a thousand borrowed masks and gave an entire generation permission to be loud and strange and angry. Wait and Bleed, Spit It Out, Eyeless, Surfacing, the whole ugly, beautiful mess of it. Nu metal gets a bad rap in revisionist circles but this record earned its place.

Format: Vinyl 2LP. Colour: Indie exclusive jade. Genre: Nu metal, alternative metal. Origin: USA. Original release: 1999.

Fans of: Korn, Sepultura, Deftones, Coal Chamber, Static-X

Format: Vinyl LP.