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'Iowa' is a fantastic metal record, ferocious and inventive, but their rage is that of psychotic adolescents rather than reasoning adults. You'll love it!
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Q MagazineSlipknot make one hell of a racket, an abrasive amalgam of death metal blastbeats and bestial grunting. [Oct 2001, p.130]
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Every genre needs its defining record, its high watermark, and this 66-minute tantrum is nu-metal's gift to history. A classic, terrifyingly.
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Iowa is not just the first great record of the nu-metal era - it's better than that.
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Iowa boldly follows up, notching maximum body blows in its unyielding production, while maintaining an odd grandeur in its professed pain and anguish, its struggle for individualism.
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Alternative PressThings reach such a fever pitch on this album that you can't help but laugh at times. [Sep 2001, p.75]
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After too many calls for the end of humanity and playing the Satan card a few times, all the yelling becomes little more than a humorless joke.
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It's an almost unrelentingly brutal disc that, like so much of the nü metal, often seems like a parody of itself.
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Those who've moved beyond efforts to scare mom and dad will do well to steer clear, though they've probably made that choice already.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 245 out of 275
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Mixed: 7 out of 275
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Negative: 23 out of 275
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Aug 3, 2011
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TonyWSep 10, 2009