The UK edition of Metal Hammer have put together a list of what they consider to be the ‘100 Greatest Albums Of The 21st Century’. The magazine assembled a panel of critics, bands and reader votes to determine the list with Slipknot‘s 2001 album, “Iowa” coming in at #1. Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor reflected on the album:
“Everyone and their mom was trying to get us to write 10 more Wait And Bleed‘s, but fuck you, we’ve already done that. Why would we want to do it again?
For us, it was really about being rabid, being wasted, and still being young enough to back it up. Our whole goal was to go in and make this dense, destructive album. We had no idea how destructive it was going to be.”
“You can hear the bile in it, you can hear the frenetic passion for what we were trying to do. I think we overshot it… I think we bypassed what we were trying to do and achieved something completely different, which was to create the heaviest album that would be picked up by a popular audience who didn’t really know what they were getting themselves into.”
You can find the entire list in the latest issue of Metal Hammer and take in a quick blast of some of the other albums to make the cut in the below gif:
We celebrate the 100 Greatest Albums Of The 21st Century in the new issue of Metal Hammer. IN STORES NOW! #Hammer100 pic.twitter.com/d5zc4uzoob
— Metal Hammer (@MetalHammer) July 20, 2016
