Slipknot - 5: The Gray Chapter (Explicit Content) (2 Lp's) Holiday While the inevitability of aging

While the inevitability of aging has been the downfall of many of his contemporaries

Ren (vocals)

and simultaneously more hard-hitting and more hook-oriented than the songs on CATCH A FIRE

especially when heard in the context of his high-profile outbursts preceding its release

Ira Elliot

Slipknot - 5: The Gray Chapter (Explicit Content) (2 Lp's) Holiday While the inevitability of agingWhile even a cursory listen to Slipknot's back catalog makes it clear the band are no strangers to working out their inner turmoil and pain through their music, never has that idea been so abundantly clear as it is on their fifth outing, . 5: The Gray Chapter. Their first studio album since 2008's All Hope Is Gone, the album finds the band still recovering from the loss of founding bassist Paul Gray, whose death in 2010 hit them pretty hard. Rather