We Are Not Your Kind
by Slipknot
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8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 496 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 425 out of 496
  2. Mixed: 29 out of 496
  3. Negative: 42 out of 496
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  1. fmoriss
    Aug 10, 2019
    6
    Couple good songs, the rest is just OK or plain bad.
    Not what I was expecting from Slipknot.
    6/10
  2. sammyanthony
    Aug 15, 2019
    5
    Same old Slipknot, with more flimsy and poppy verse-chorus-verse structure. We Are Not Your Kind is very substandard. Nice instrumentals in several outros ain't even convincing.
  3. Nobilis1984
    Aug 12, 2019
    5
    I wonder if I have heard another album. Values at 90% surprise me. Or do not many here know their album Iowa?
    This was better classes and still worth it today.
    But what some celebrate here is not normal. 2-3 good songs and the rest is mediocre to bad. Even "All Hope is gone" was better.
  4. Prosmooth
    Aug 18, 2019
    5
    Not real Metal. Made for radio play, and for Emo kids to sing along with in concert.
  5. a_sebastian
    Aug 18, 2019
    5
    Well I tried several times but didn't get the point. If I would change anything, that would be DRuMS. They just suck **** on the the tracks.
  6. Thigpen84
    Aug 9, 2019
    5
    This is their most brutal album in sometime but I think what bothers me is that the songs do not take their own identity like they do on Subliminal Versus, they mesh together too much, I could listen to this album 5 times and not remember what songs I liked, it had some moments but I am not super impressed
  7. se7enX90X
    Aug 10, 2019
    5
    The fact that I've seen multiple plebs saying absurd statements like "this is Slipknot's best album" shows how absolutely delusional this bands fanbase is. We Are Not Your Kind isn't even close to as good as Vol. 3. let alone Iowa. Give me a break.
  8. Bloodbaath
    Aug 9, 2019
    4
    Honestly, i am dissapointed, the drums does not have tha same kind of integrity and attack just the same "heavy" beat all the time with little time for fast fills, guitars are getting more repetitive and boring, the sheer hype of their music seems to be gone for me with this album im sorry but i cannot recommend this.
  9. PetraAngel
    Aug 24, 2019
    4
    A bit worth more than garbage!!1!!1! A bit worth more than garbage!!1!!1! A bit worth more than garbage!!1!!1!
  10. MythoBeanz94
    Sep 13, 2019
    6
    There were 14 songs but only 7 songs that were good they really wasted the album with those interludes which were so unnecessary and boring overall the album was a disappointment even though I've never been a big fan of the band
  11. clem666
    Aug 17, 2021
    5
    This album summarizes the twenty years of existence of Slipknot. With all this experience the band clearly still has things to prove. And they tried their best here. They dug deep in their originality to showcase their abilities and their inspirations. I could cite the soundtracks of horror movies on 'Spiders' or the Slayer-like drums on 'Orphan'. Songs like 'My Pain' or 'What's Next'This album summarizes the twenty years of existence of Slipknot. With all this experience the band clearly still has things to prove. And they tried their best here. They dug deep in their originality to showcase their abilities and their inspirations. I could cite the soundtracks of horror movies on 'Spiders' or the Slayer-like drums on 'Orphan'. Songs like 'My Pain' or 'What's Next' demontsrate a new face of the band.

    However, all this diversity did not succeed in making me dive into this project. Tracks are way too long to be enjoyable to me as their repetitivity is clearly killing their brightness and intensity. And yes, seven tracks out of fourteen last more than five minutes. So that's not an isolated fact. I actually have nothing against long songs, but please give them some depth and progression (or narrative) when you create them, because 'My Pain' is honestly painful to listen to. I can't deny there are some gut-gripping moments and movements during 'We Are Not Your Kind' but these are annihilated by terrific vocals, poor tracks structure and/or annoying repetitivity. I guess Slipknot still has to play the originality card and work it hard to finally release something really deep and engaging.

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  12. MaggotZP
    Sep 2, 2019
    6
    Really weak album. Liar's Funeral, Red Flag and Orphan are so boring. There are no catchy songs except Unsainted, Nero Forte and Spiders.
  13. Xaremathras
    Sep 26, 2019
    5
    Their previous album (0.5 Grey Chapter) put them back on the map after a career decline. On that album, every track was great, heavy, to-the-point, and had its place on the larger album. Every music critic said "oh wow, look, Slipknot is making a comeback now".

    Leading up to this album, there was a great amount of hype. In fact, it seems they are more popular now in 2019 than in 2002!    Their previous album (0.5 Grey Chapter) put them back on the map after a career decline. On that album, every track was great, heavy, to-the-point, and had its place on the larger album. Every music critic said "oh wow, look, Slipknot is making a comeback now".

    Leading up to this album, there was a great amount of hype. In fact, it seems they are more popular now in 2019 than in 2002! Unfortunately, this album wasn't able to deliver and I think it's because 1) they sat on the album too long, and 2) tried being more experimental, but this was never their strength.

    1) Interviews show that they took their time on this album and wanted to ensure there was "replay" value and sat on the album for about 3yrs. I think this drove the passion stale and lengthened the songs. The majority of songs are over 5:00 minutes. And that's okay for some bands...if they are changing, innovative. But instead it is just a over-lengthened repeating guitar riff. To sum up, Criticism 1 of 2, songs should have have been put into 3:30-4:30 timeframes to capture the best of each track, as it does sound like there is a lot of boring filler.

    2) Oh no, why did you have to expirement and do stupid synth things? They've done this on other albums, and honestly it never added to the value - at best, their synthy "interludes" gave a 1-3min break from the heaviness. On this album, they had full-length songs which basically were more synth than metal, and this is something Slipknot should never do again.

    Conclusion: too much filler, songs too long, lack of hooks, lack of cohesion, unnecessary synthy tracks, about average in terms of catalogue heaviness. Even the best songs could have had some alterations to make them hit the mark (Nero Forte, Orphan, Red Flag, Spiders). Only Unsainted and All Out Life (which was stupidly cut from the album) were amazing songs start-to-end.    … Expand
  14. Barbosz
    Oct 29, 2019
    5
    Better than The Gray Chapter, but way worse than Iowa and Slipknot. The production and mix is fine, but some of he songs are just filler. Also all of the interludes suck balls. Still, the best slipknot album since Subliminal Verses.

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89

Universal acclaim - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Classic Rock Magazine
    Aug 20, 2019
    90
    Wonderfully cohesive hour of vein-popping indignation. [Sep 2019, p.82]
  2. Clash Music
    Aug 15, 2019
    70
    Slipknot make an unexpected impact with their newly-discovered tenderness, but it’s those instantly-recognisable throat-shredding roars that really shine.
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  3. Pitchfork
    Aug 14, 2019
    67
    For better or for worse, Kind is a Slipknot record, one that has more to offer than expected and is still sometimes frustratingly short-sighted.
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