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After the much-awaited and much-discussed 'Iowa', Slipknot gifts their fans "Disasterpieces" (Note: the DVD is titled "Disasterpieces" and the song is "Disasterpiece") recorded at the London Arena, England, on February 14, 2002. A classic musical DVD, but one that engages thoroughly with nine genuine stage animals.
A production meticulously crafted, perfect images and sound, but above all a breathtaking direction, certainly one of the DVD's cornerstones. The idea to assign each band member a personal camera to show us "through the eyes" of each of the nine is also brilliant, and we can better appreciate this "treat" in the second DVD. Here, Slipknot unleashes all their "swagger" (forgive the term), flaunting their new suits complete with a Nazi-style armband featuring the tribal "S" and two massive 666s flanking the stage, echoing the provocative Satanism of the Iowa cover and the song "Heretic Anthem" (provocative because the chorus goes "If you're 555, then I'm 666", to show that metal doesn't equate to Satanism as many believe; a debate could be opened about the chorus and the commercial nature of these provocative gestures, but this is not the place for it).
The first DVD contains the concert that opens with the fans arriving at the London Arena and the intense preparation of the nine 'Knot, with growing tension and fans chanting for their idols. The stage can't be seen as it's covered by a large white curtain. The intro "515" (Iowa state prefix) starts, and it's a frenzy, the anticipation grows exponentially. After some endless moments, Joey's cymbals start to sound, simultaneously with the curtain drop a devastating "People = Shit" kicks off, performed to perfection, contrary to other performances by the band; immediately following without a moment's pause is "Liberate" with its intro held a bit longer, with Corey making the entire arena jump (I believe this is one of the best-executed songs of the entire DVD). Then space for one of the singles with "Left Behind," which perhaps feels a bit off due to its commerciality, quickly forgotten with the ferocity of "Eeyore" and "Disasterpiece". The "truce" moment arrives with the duo "Purity"/"Gently" with truly chilling scenographies and atmosphere, including fake falling snow. In "Purity", Corey shows he can not only scream but also sing, engaging with a song perhaps among the lesser-known in their repertoire. However, the devastation resumes with "Eyeless", the other single "My Plague" and "New Abortion" which deserves a special mention as it's certainly not one of the more famous songs but is executed spectacularly here.
The backdrop changes, revealing a pentacle behind the stage with a goat visible within, obviously leading to "Heretic Anthem" with the entire audience chanting the chorus. In "Spit It Out", Corey proves to be a frontman like few others, as getting an entire arena to sit down and then jump up immediately after is no small feat. Following it is the classic of classics "Wait And Bleed" with fans singing at the top of their lungs. The "Slipknot" logo reigns again on stage, and after a brief pause, the 'Knot return to wrap up the concert with "(sic)" and "Surfacing". Throughout the concert are inserted various segments including preparation, interviews, meeting with fans, stage setup, pre-concert rehearsals, and a "sample-scratch" session by Sid guaranteed to give goosebumps for those familiar with DJing.
But above all, the now-infamous Joey drum solo with the drums spinning in the air, incredible. All the songs were performed to perfection, managing to engage the audience from the first to the last minute, thanks in part to Taylor's great skills as a frontman, but generally to everyone (except Craig, who is practically never seen), the members who prove to be more than comfortable on stage, thrashing about like madmen every moment of the show.
The second DVD contains all the videos produced by the band up to that moment, including the animated version of "Wait And Bleed", then through three songs captured from the concert, we can choose each of the nine members and experience the entire song through their personal camera.
Overall, it is an excellent product, a must-have for fans, but definitely worth watching for any type of audience, as in my opinion, it is one of the best musical DVDs produced so far. Whether one likes them or not, Slipknot live are in their natural habitat and they prove it here, both with perhaps commercial scenic ideas, but above all with an onstage presence unique to only a few other bands around.
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Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 People = Shit (03:35)
Come on!
I wanna see every fucking hand in the fuckin air.
I... uhhh..
Here we go again, motherfucker!
Yeah!
Come on down, and see the idiot right here
Too fucked to beg and not afraid to care
What's the matter with calamity anyway?
Right? Get the fuck outta my face
Understand that I can't feel anything
It isn't like I wanna sift through the decay
I feel like a wound, like I got a fucking
Gun against my head, you live when I'm dead
One more time, motherfucker!
Everybody hates me now, so fuck it
Blood's on my face and my hands, and I don't know why
I'm not afraid to cry, but thats none of your business
Whose life is it? Get it, see it, feel it, eat it
Spin it around so I can spit in its face
I wanna leave without a trace
'Cause I dont wanna die in this place
People equals Shit
People equals Shit
People equals Shit
People equals Shit
People equals Shit (Whatcha gunna do?)
People equals Shit ('Cause I am not afraid of you)
People equals Shit (I'm everything you'll never be)
People equals Shit (Yeah)
Make some fuckin noise Chicago!
Yeah
Come on!
It never stops - You can't be everything to everyone
Contagion - I'm sitting at the side of Satan
What do you want from me?
They never told me the failure I was meant to be
Now, over do it - Don't tell me you blew it
Stop your bitching and fight your way through it
I'm - Not - Like - You - I - Just - Fuck - Up
C'mon motherfucker everybody has to die
C'mon motherfucker everybody has to die
Get your fuckin' hands up!
People equals Shit
People equals Shit
Cmon Cmon
People equals Shit
Cmon Cmon
People equals Shit
Cmon Cmon
People equals Shit (Yeah)
People equals Shit (Yeah)
People equals Shit (Yeah)
People equals Shit (Yeah)
People equals Shit (Aaargh)
People equals Shit
People equals Shit
People equals Shit
People equals Shit
People equals Shit (Whatcha gonna do?)
People equals Shit ('Cause I'm not afraid of you)
People equals Shit (I'm everything you'll never be)
People equals Shit (Yeah)
Goddamn Light!
03 Liberate (03:47)
Liberate...My madness!
(One of me, all of you)
Liberate...My madness!
I just want to
Liberate...My madness!
(One of me, all of you)
Liberate...My madness!
Section off myself
Put a wall up, what the hell have I done?
Keep the dog at bay, survive by saving me!
Values in the game
Not a fuck-up, not a part of your lie
I am one, I am all - I'm above and beyond!
Stand off of the shit
Back off or I'll spit
So soft, you forget
(Your garbage in is garbage out)
You just don't give a shit
I won't benefit
Get off, get on this
(Your garbage in is garbage out)
Liberate my madness
Liberate...My madness!
(One of me, all of you)
Liberate...My madness!
I just want to
Liberate...My madness!
(One of me, all of you)
Liberate...My madness!
I am not ashamed
What is vital, isn't always humane
You can't break in vain
But you can't break away!
Even in my face
Lotta bullshit, not alotta the truth
I can't see from here
But I can smell your fear!
Back off of the shit
Stand off or I'll spit
So soft, you forget
(Your garbage in is garbage out)
You just don't give a shit
I won't benefit
Get off, get on this
(Your garbage in is garbage out)
Saved - You're such a slave - I don't expect a name
You don't care - I wasn't witness
I can't be a part of a system such as this
Hard eyes - Glow right - In my - Darkness - Again
With the sickness, renegade sisters, blisters
Salivate, litigate, liberate, madness, sadness
Fuck this - How long have I had this?
I don't need this - Outta my business!
Insert, engage, betrayed, my God!
Fraud!
Fraud!
Fraud!
Liberate...My madness!
Liberate...My madness!
I just want to
Liberate...My madness!
Liberate...My madness!
04 Left Behind (03:29)
I've known faces that have disappeared in time
Find me wrapped in glass and slowly soaked in lime
All my friends have pictures meant to make you cry
I've seen this and wondered what I've done to
Calcify!
(I ignore you)
As I close my eyes, I feel it all slipping away
(I come towards you)
We all got left behind, we let it all slip away
(I ignore you)
As I close my eyes, I feel it all slipping away
(I come toward you)
We all got left behind, we let it all slip away
I can't stand to see your thalidomide robot face
I don't even try it
You had to be a liar just to
Infiltrate me - I'm still drowning
(I ignore you)
As I close my eyes, I feel it all slipping away
(I come toward you)
We all got left behind, we let it all slip away
(I ignore you)
As I close my eyes, I feel it all slipping away
(I come toward you)
We all got left behind, we let it all slip away
Take this all away
Take this all away
I can feel it on my mouth
I can taste you on my fingers
I can hear you like the holy ghost
And kill you if you get too close
(I ignore you)
As I close my eyes, I feel it all slipping away
(I come toward you)
We all got left behind, we let it all slip away
(I ignore you)
As I close my eyes, I feel it all slipping away
(I come toward you)
We all got left behind, we let it all slip away
We let it all slip away
We let it all slip away
We let it all slip away
We let it all slip away
07 Disasterpiece (05:09)
I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound
I wanna push my face in and feel the swoon
I wanna dig inside, find a little bit of me
Cause the line gets crossed when you don't come clean
My wormwood meets your pesticide
You'll never get out, cause you were never alive
I am infinite, I am the infant finite
Come a little closer and I'll show you why
(NO ONE IS - SAFE)
Noises, Noises, people make Noises
People make Noises when they're sick
Nothing to do except hold on to NOTHING
How does it feel to be locked inside another dream
That never had a chance of being realized?
What the fuck are you looking at?
I'll tell you what you're looking at
Everyone you ever fucking laughed at
Look in my eyes for the answers - typical
I can feel it underneath like a miracle
Everybody in the world needs more than
Lies and consequences to power them
Once again, it's me and no one else
I can't remember if there was a someone else
It's not mine, it's not fair, it's outta my hands
And it's shaking - you'll never take me
(NO ONE IS - SAFE)
Noises, Noises, people make Noises
People make Noises when they're sick
Nothing to do except hold on to NOTHING
NOTHING!
(HATE) Hate ain't enough to describe me
(SCREAM) Somewhere between screaming and crying
I'm not supposed to be here
I'm not supposed to be
(WHY) When do I get to know why?
(BITTER) Bitter as the stink of when I try
I'm not supposed to be here
I'm not supposed to be
Pull your hands away
I'm gone - goodbye - it's so depressing
Withering away
Take a look - inside - my soul is missing
All I have is dead, so I'll take you with me
Feel like I'm erased - so kill me just in case
(COVET) Everything around me's mine
(STY) Can't see through the sties in my eyes
I'm not supposed to be here
I'm not supposed to be
(DOWN) Scratching and clawing all the way
(STAY) You won't let me fucking stay
I'm not supposed to be here
I'm not supposed to be
(LIVE) Is there another way to live?
(DIE) Cause it's the only way to die
I'm not supposed to be here
I'm not supposed to be
09 Purity (04:22)
Purity
Maze...psychopathic daze...I create this waste
Back away from tangents, on the verge of drastic
ways...can't escape this place...I deny your face
Sweat gets in my eyes, I think I'm slowly dying
Put me in a homemade cellar
Put me in a hole for shelter
Someone hear me please, all I see is hate
I can hardly breathe, and I can hardly take it
HANDS ON MY FACE OVER BEARING I CAN'T GET OUT
Lost...ran at my own cost...hearing laughter, scoffed
Learning from the rush, detached from such and such
Bleak...all around me, weak...listening, incomplete
I am not a dog, but I'm the one your dogging
I am in a buried kennel
I have never felt so final
Someone find me please, losing all reserve
I am fucking gone, I think I'm fucking dying
HANDS ON MY FACE OVER BEARING I CAN'T GET OUT!
You all stare, but you'll never see
There is something inside me
There is something in you I despise
Cut me - show me - enter - I am
willing and able and never any danger to myself
Knowledge in my pain, knowledge in my pain
Or was my tolerance a phase?
Empathy, out of my way
I can't die
You'll all stare, but you'll never see
There's something inside me
There's something in you i dispise
Purity
10 Gently (05:22)
Gently my mind escapes
Into the relaxing world of pleasure
A pleasure that will take my mind
Off the realities of my life
My past life
Life as I know it now
And whatever may come, it slowly disappears
To somewhere in the back of my mind
It will remain there
Until I wish to retrieve it
Yes, I will stay here for awhile
For I need the break
A break from the pressures of life
And everything that lays in the palm of life's hands
Life's hands
Yeah!
This mode is incredible
It's out of this world
Too bad I must always leave it now
That's life (That's life)
That's life (That's life)
That's life (That's life)
That's life (That's life)
Shift
Shift
Shift
Yeah Shift
12 Eyeless (04:01)
Yeah!
Insane - Am I the only muthafucker with a brain?
I'm hearing voices but all they do is complain
How many times have you wanted to kill?
Everything and everyone - Say you'll do it but never will
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
I am my Father's son
Cause he's a phantom, a mystery and that leaves me
Nothing!
How many times have you wanted to die?
It's too late for me, all you have to do is get rid of me!
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
It's all in your head
It's all in my head
It's all in your head
Yeah
I tried - You lied to me for so long
Everywhere I go, there's a sense of it
Freak on my antics and give me a choice
Doesn't matter if I give a shit
It's shit that you give me
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
It's all in your head
It's all in my head
It's all in your head
Yeah
Do you wanna feel pain?
Taking my name in vain
Caring never felt so lame inside
Anybody else got pride?
Do you wanna take my life?
Maybe I'll reverse my ride
Who the fuck are you? Fuck you!
Better suck it up cause you bled through
Better get away from me
Stay the fuck away from me!
I feel safe - Seems your saved
I feel safe safe - Seems your saved
Look me in my brand new eye
Look me in my brand new eye
Look me in my brand new eye
MuthaFucker
Look me in my brand new eye
Look me in my brand new eye
Look me in my brand new eye
Look me in my brand new.
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