We Are Not Your Kind Songs Ranked

We Are Not Your Kind is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot. Recorded at EastWest Studios in Hollywood, California with co-producer Greg Fidelman (who previously produced the band’s 2014 album .5: The Gray Chapter), it was released on August 9, 2019 by Roadrunner Records. The title is taken from a lyric in the song “All Out Life”, which was released as a standalone single in 2018 and features as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of the album. We Are Not Your Kind is the first Slipknot album to be recorded as an eight-member band, as their former percussionist Chris Fehn was fired from the band in March 2019 after suing the group for alleged unpaid royalties. We Are Not Your Kind received critical acclaim; numerous commentators hailed the album as one of the best releases of Slipknot’s career, praising the level of experimentation displayed on several key songs. Others highlighted it as a modern landmark release in the heavy metal genre. “Unsainted” reached number 10 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, while “Solway Firth” also reached the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart top ten. We Are Not Your Kind debuted at number 1 on both the US Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart, becoming the band’s third consecutive album to do so on both charts, as well as several other charts around the world. Here are all of We Are Not Your Kind songs ranked.

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14. Insert Coin

“Honestly that was my favorite for someone who prefer when singer aren’t screaming to death. I’m not saying the others track are bad but for real, this album was for me uselessly to hard. This is song has an interesting and short progression that I didn’t forget”

13. What’s Next

“What’s Next is another instrumental interlude with a nice little solo, and the number we’re having is starting to border on rap album territory here. Fortunately it leads straight into the next song, so it can be seen as an introduction of sorts to separate the next track from Red Flag more effectively. It soon becomes apparent as to why that’s required.”

12. Death Because of Death

“Death Because of Death is another filler track, a looping overdriven line is met with samples and tom drums as a choir chants the title of the track like an almost corny mantra, ending in a whispering feminine-sounding voice that seems out of place. The necessary evil for averaging 14 tracks per album unfortunately.”

11. My Pain

“My Pain begins with ambiance like many other songs have, with a hint of some rhythm emerging from the depths before a keyboard or perhaps a heavily altered bass joins proceedings. There’s whispering that’s heavily processed, and I can’t help but think of the extended version of Danger-Keep Away. The soundscape is joined with a piano and swells into a drum machine and keyboard that reminds me of Dead Can Dance of all things.”

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10. Not Long for This World

“Not Long for This World follows the unsettling unraveling of the previous soundscape with more deep rumbling bass and subdued toms keeping pace with it. Now we have post-punk guitar. What the hell is going on? This is straight out of Joy Division/New Order, what’s it doing on a Slipknot record?”

9. Spiders

“Spiders. Yes, that’s a piano riff with chunky bass underpinning the drumming. It’s a Marilyn Manson song in both style and atmosphere and also a radical departure from previous territory that will divide fans. A chugging riff emerges only to be accompanied by hand claps and that same piano quivering in the backing in an unsettling horror movie fashion as the titular spiders are sung about.”

8. Red Flag

“Red Flag is the antithesis to the previous track, immediately starting with a riff and kick before picking up the pace and basically aping Iowa, to the point where they even use the same effects on the backing vocals. “You used to be something special, now you’re nothing new,” Corey laments over a charging beat. The ending is as visceral as it comes. Most heavy bands have that one track where they really stretch themselves, and you’d think this would be the one. You’d be wrong.”

7. Critical Darling

“Critical Darling starts with yet another sample, followed by a heavily processed guitar that anchors the rhythm that explodes into the fray, with Corey going even faster than before, as if daring himself to match the heights of his earlier 90s efforts. This all subsides into a chorus worthy of a Stone Sour track that feels slightly out of place after the previous violence, a softer counterpoint that’s utterly intentional. It breaks down predictably mid-way through with typical beckoning and fragile lyrics from Taylor, the structure feels too well-worn at this point.”

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6. Liar’s Funeral

“A Liar’s Funeral starts out like every Slipknot ballad ever, much more familiar territory in the vein of Bother/Vermillion/Snuff, joined by marching drums in the background. Only for the entire proceeding to be shattered by the roaring of ‘liar’. Yet the instrumentation follows it accordingly, and it doesn’t feel out of place. Instead we descend into a chugging slowdown and Corey matches it with every bar.”

5. Orphan

“Orphan is the palette cleanser from all the difference, as a background sample gives way to heavily delayed atmospherics and a clean guitar riff that fades into feedback. Like a gunshot, the slow toms and emerging bass line are met with a shout from one of the members. They mean business with this one, and launch into The Heretic Anthem Pt.2 complete with double kicks. This is pure Iowa homage, and hats must come off to Jay Weinberg, who has been sitting in former drummer Joey Jordinson’s long shadow for a long time.”

4. Birth of the Cruel

“Birth of the Cruel follows, and aside from the slicker production values this is a complete throwback to the earlier days of the band. Samples galore surround the slightly echoing clean vocal lines, record scratches and riffs bordering on self-plagiarism, it’s a slower-paced heavy affair that you’d find on their first two albums, as if to say ‘look guys, we’re still Slipknot’.”

3. Nero Forte

“Nero Forte leaps into action with riffage for Corey to truly begin spitting venom over again. “I haven’t felt like this in years,” he howls, before the verse gives way to catchy and uncharacteristically high vocals that are close to hugging either side of the stereo image as he proceeds to spit bars through the middle like Chuck-D if he went Nu-Metal. It’s easily the highlight of the album so far, breaking mid-way into drumming reminiscent of Vol.3’s The Blister Exists. Clearly a band doing what it does best, one listen will tell you that.”

2. Unsainted

“Unsainted is the opening single, with a radio friendly rock chorus and all the trademark bits and pieces that Slipknot have become known for since their mid-2000s transition into alternative metal darlings. Corey’s voice is in fine form, possibly due to his quitting smoking between records. This could sit happily on any of their more modern albums and is very much par for the course.”

1. Solway Firth

“Solway Firth is the single that closes us out after yet another sample ends the previous track. It isn’t Scissors and it isn’t Iowa, but it’s more concise than either, with an absolutely furious performance from Taylor. “You want the real smile? Or the one I used to practice not to feel like a failure?””