slipknot album art covers download SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR On 'Gray Chapter' Artwork: 'The Minute I Saw That Image, I Knew That It Was The Cover' SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor says that when he first saw the image that became the cover artwork for the band's long-awaited fifth album, ".5: The Gray Chapter" , he was "so blown away" that he immediately knew SLIPKNOT had found what it was looking for. The ".5: The Gray Chapter" was designed by M. Shawn Crahan , better known as Clown , who is the percussionist and founding member of SLIPKNOT . Crahan is also the art director for SLIPKNOT and directed their DVDs, "Disasterpieces" , "Voliminal: Inside The Nine" , "Of The (sic)" , and "(sic)nesses: Live at Download" . He has been the creative vision behind the band since their inception. "The minute I saw that image, I knew that it was the cover," Taylor told Mistress Carrie of the Worcester/Boston, Massachusetts radio station WAAF , "because the great thing about Clown is that… He does all the artwork for us, he comes up with so much of the concepts, and he's really never gotten the amount of credit that I think he deserves. So when he came in, he had some of this fantastic artwork, I was so blown away. But that one image was so striking, and I think it told so many different stories just in that one image. Because it's black and white, but if you look at it, there's so much gray in it without the color gray even being there. I just knew that was our moment, that was our image, that's what we were gonna put up and hold up to the world and say, 'This is our album.' I just knew that was it." Taylor said in a new interview with Metal Hammer that firing SLIPKNOT 's founding drummer Joey Jordison in 2013 after 18 years was "one of the hardest decisions" the group ever made, adding that Jordison is "in a place in his life" which is "not where we are." Taylor said he could not get into specifics for legal reasons, but admitted, "It's when a relationship hits that T-section and one person's going one way and you're going the other. And try as you might to either get them to go your way or try and go their way, at some point you've got to go in the direction that works for you. This is me speaking in the broadest terms, with respect to Joey . I guess to sum it up, it was one of the hardest decisions we ever made." Taylor said that the band is "happy right now and we hope that he is… he's just in a place in his life, right now, that's not where we are." The singer would not answer whether drug use played a role in Jordison 's dismissal, and confessed that he had not been in touch with his former bandmate. Taylor said, "I haven't talked to Joey in a while, to be honest. That's how different we are. It's not because I don't love him and I don't miss him. And it is painful; we talk about him all the time, but at the same time, do we miss him or do we miss the old him? That's what it really comes down to." ".5: The Gray Chapter" will be released on October 21 via Roadrunner . It's the band's first without Jordison and late bassist Paul Gray . The identities of the band's new bassist and drummer have not yet been revealed, but both appeared — disguised in the same newly designed mask — in the video for "The Devil In I" , the first single from the new album. Nonetheless, it is widely believed that the new bassist is Alessandro "Vman" Venturella , who sports the exact same tattoo on his hand that was spotted on the hand of the new bassist in the video. SLIPKNOT 's new drummer is thought to be Jay Weinberg , son of longtime Bruce Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg . SLAYER: 'Repentless' Cover Artwork Unveiled. The cover artwork for SLAYER 's eleventh studio album, "Repentless" , can be seen below. The CD will be released on September 11 via Nuclear Blast . The artwork was created by Brazilian artist Marcelo Vasco in collaboration with the band's Tom Araya and Kerry King . "We had a number of submitted ideas for the cover artwork," said Araya , "and we felt Marcelo 's was the best. We made some suggestions and the result is an awesome album cover." The "Repentless" title track will be available digitally virtually everywhere around the globe this Friday, June 19. " 'Repentless' is my Jeff [ Hanneman ] tribute," said King . "I call it the 'HannemAnthem.' It's my perspective of Jeff 's perspective, it's what I think. If Jeff wrote a song for himself, 'Repentless' would be it." The full lyrics for the "Repentless" title track can be found below. The Metal Eagle Edition of "Repentless" , is made of aluminum alloy, measuring 15" x 17" x 3" and weighing in at a hefty 7.8 pounds (yes, the final version is heavier than previously announced), the Metal Eagle Edition will house a deluxe digipak of the "Repentless" CD plus bonus material detailed below. The limited (only 3,000 copies worldwide) and numbered Metal Eagle Edition will be a direct-to-consumer item and available exclusively via the Nuclear Blast mailorder online store. The Metal Eagle will include the following exclusive items: * Deluxe digipak (folds out into "inverted cross") * Bonus Blu-Ray and DVD including "Slayer Live At Wacken 2014" and "Making Of Repentless Documentary" * Bonus live CD "Slayer Live At Wacken 2014" * Fold-out poster * Album sticker * Numbered certificate. The highly anticipated "Repentless" is SLAYER 's eleventh studio album, the first since 2009's critically acclaimed, Grammy -nominated "World Painted Blood" and the first with producer Terry Date ( PANTERA , SLIPKNOT , SOUNDGARDEN ). The band — Tom Araya (bass, vocals), Kerry King (guitar), Paul Bostaph (drums), and Gary Holt (guitar), who recorded lead guitar parts for about a half-dozen of the album's new tracks — started recording "Repentless" in March 2014, and made the track "Implode" available as a free download in April of that year. The band and Date continued to record between September 2014 and mid-January 2015 at Henson Studios in Los Angeles. For the album, "Implode" was completely re-recorded from the ground up, and "When The Stillness Comes" , used as an instrumental track in a Scion commercial, got a revamped intro and all new vocals. "Repentless" also includes "Piano Wire" , an unfinished song from the "World Painted Blood" sessions written by Hanneman. About the track, Rolling Stone wrote that it "begins with an eerie guitar line before evolving into a full-on-doom (and classic SLAYER ) riff onslaught." King put it this way: "When I hear it, I think ' Jeff .' It sounds like a Jeff Hanneman song." The 12-track "Repentless" is, according to those who have heard it, a sonic assault of brutal, ominous, lightening-fast and heavy-as-hell music with lyrics that unmask what SLAYER knows best — the terror, the corruption and the societal turmoil that dominates our world. "The new album sounds like SLAYER ," said Araya . "In the past, our fans have always known what to expect, this time they don't. But we really like it, and I don't think the fans are going to be disappointed." As is expected from SLAYER , the band will support the release of "Repentless" with extensive touring across the globe, beginning this summer when the band headlines the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival . That tour kicks off June 26 at Sleep Train Amphitheater in San Diego, California. Iowa (album) Iowa is the second album by American heavy metal band Slipknot. Released by Roadrunner Records on August 28, 2001, it was produced by Ross Robinson and Slipknot. The title derives from the band's home state, Iowa, which members have stated is one of their biggest sources of inspiration. With much anticipation for the band's second album following on the success of their 1999 self-titled debut, pressures on the band were high. Their relationships with each other suffered and was later described as the darkest time of their career. It was also the first time that guitarist Jim Root had been significantly involved in a Slipknot album due to his joining very late in recording of their debut album, as Root was only featured on two songs from that release. Despite troubles within the band and with Iowa's development, Slipknot promoted it for almost a year. Iowa was a major success, it premiered in the top ten album sales charts in nine countries. Generally positively received, it includes some of their notable songs, such as "Disasterpiece", "The Heretic Anthem", "People = Shit" and the two Grammy-nominated songs "Left Behind" and the remix of "My Plague." Critic John Mulvey proclaimed the album, as the "absolute triumph of nu metal." While more technical than their debut album, Iowa is considered to be the band's heaviest. It has been certified platinum in the United States and Canada. platinum in the United States and Canada. Contents. Production. Iowa was recorded and produced at Sound City and Sound Image studios in Los Angeles, California with producer Ross Robinson, who had produced their debut album. Drummer Joey Jordison and bassist Paul Gray began working on new music together in October 2000 and together they wrote material for most of the tracks on the album.