Slipknot's music video for new single "Killpop" is relatively friendly fare for the Iowa band HAHA just kidding it features leather-clad women, abandoned buildings and goats...like many other clips from the masked group.
"Killpop" is the fourth single released off of Slipknot's most recent studio album, .5: The Gray Chapter. As has been the case with the recent records from the group, this song fills the role of the relative "ballad," featuring frontman Corey Taylor coming to grips with his demons, singing somewhat more queitly and the instrumentalists taking a backseat during the track. Listeners will be glad to consider a recent interview when Taylor declared the single to deal with his "love-hate relationship" with the music industry.
The performer uses a feminine pronoun to address the business in his song, pushing it to "die and f*cking love me."
The visuals? Not much friendly going on. The eye-catching element is a pair of women, dressed as femme fatales from the Spy vs. Spy universe, leather and black-and-white face paint as they dance. The band mostly wanders a similar building, abandoned brick and mortar. Only Shawn "Clown" Crahan gets to see any color, as he lays down in a purple grove outside. He also gets some interesting instruments to use, a beer keg to beat on that fans will recognize from Slipknot's recent "Welcome to Hell" tour (or for those who got out to Rock on The Range with Music Times). Oh, and fans will also enjoy the reappearance of the Iowa goat.
Don't find "Killpop" hardcore enough? You may want to go back and check out the second video from The Gray Chapter, which is perhaps the most brutal released from Slipknot yet. The clip features the institutionalized band members (including first looks at the new masks) as it plays the song...and eventually kills itself/gets killed in grotesque and morbid ways.
Makes "Killpop" look downright relaxing by comparison.
