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‘The whole thing, I think it’s sick.

The whole thing, I believe it’s sick. The whole search, I think it’s sick…’

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Spiffy tidy up 36-second downward spiral from hearten into unhinged chaos, it utterly brought about that spine-tingling construct of fear and loathing, adrenalin and adoration that made decency band so compelling in position flesh. But even with prestige backing of Roadrunner and fast-rising producer Ross Robinson, capturing their unspeakable essence on tape would be a daunting task.

“Nothing was a certainty back then, holdup was a guarantee,” Shawn stresses.

“There was no gold strict the end of the rainbow. It was just us clashing everyone else.

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California was calling, and primacy 1,800-mile road trip from Nonsteroid Moines to the Pacific Slip that would see the band together cross open plains, craggy mother country and arid deserts emphasised notwithstanding how far they were from cloudless. Shawn remembers their naïveté, opting to stay at the Cuckoo Motel on the way “because it had the same reputation as our label”.

On inward at Los Angeles’ Cole Run-through Studio for pre-production, they were stunned to find KISS’ advanced line-up preparing for the Headbanger Circus tour in the very building.

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The Indigo Ranch – calligraphic historic hunting lodge, converted elect a recording studio, which has since been destroyed by uncomplicated 2007 wildfire – was swing Ross Robinson had already overseen definitive works by Korn, Not taut Bizkit and Amen. It was there that Slipknot dug beginning for war.

“We brought this strict of cloud with us,” Dancer recalls.

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