{"id":3711,"date":"2019-10-30T10:28:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T17:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2024-08-04T18:56:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T01:56:50","slug":"slipknot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/slipknot","title":{"rendered":"Episode 171: Slipknot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subhead\">&#8220;Unsainted&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SongExploder171-Slipknot-600x314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SongExploder171-Slipknot-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SongExploder171-Slipknot-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SongExploder171-Slipknot-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SongExploder171-Slipknot.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/play.prx.org\/e?uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed.songexploder.net%2FSongExploder&amp;ge=prx_93_c67b9f9b-9889-4b77-a453-90f3289572cc\" width=\"650\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"download-links\">LISTEN: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.com\/songexploder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APPLE PODCASTS<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/radiopublic.com\/SongExploder\">RADIOPUBLIC<\/a> \u00b7 <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/10lMwCjvzLCLwth2AW6cLG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SPOTIFY<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Slipknot is a Grammy-winning metal band from Des Moines, Iowa, who formed in 1995. They&#8217;ve sold over 30 million records. In this episode, guitarist Jim Root breaks down how Slipknot made the song \u201cUnsainted,\u201d from their 2019 album <em>We Are Not Your Kind<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/song.link\/i\/1463706040\">buy or stream &#8220;Unsainted&#8221; here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a transcript of this episode, <a href=\"http:\/\/songexploder.net\/transcripts\/slipknot-transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Illustration by <\/i><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lerms.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos Lerma<\/a><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"header\">footnotes<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_Fidelman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Fidelman &#8211; Producer<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unsainted&#8221; \ufeff\ufeff LISTEN: APPLE PODCASTS \u00b7 RADIOPUBLIC \u00b7 SPOTIFY Slipknot is a Grammy-winning metal band from Des Moines, Iowa, who formed in 1995. They&#8217;ve sold over 30 million records. In this episode, guitarist Jim Root breaks down how Slipknot made the song \u201cUnsainted,\u201d from their 2019 album We Are Not Your Kind. You can buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episode"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Song Exploder - 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