''Welcome to Our Neighborhood'' is the first

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by American heavy metal band Slipknot. It was released on November 9, 1999, by Roadrunner Records and later reissued in DVD format on November 18, 2003. Characterized as a band's home video, it features a mixture of live performances footage of the songs "Surfacing", "Wait and Bleed", and "Scissors", interviews, and music video of "Spit It Out". Additional concept imagery and interview footage is included on the film, while the DVD version features more bonus material. The video was well received by fans and entered number one on the ''Billboard'' Top Music Videos chart, and was certified platinum in February 2000.

Production and release

Following the band's highly successful breakthrough 1999 tour on

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, Slipknot decided to produce ''Welcome to Our Neighborhood'' with Doom Films Production. The video was directed by

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, and released on VHS through Roadrunner Records on November 9, 1999. It features the bands' earliest videos: live performances of "Surfacing" and "

Wait and Bleed "Wait and Bleed" is a song by American heavy metal band Slipknot. Released as the band's debut single off their 1999 self-titled debut album. After being remixed to replace the screamed vocals in the verses with more melodic singing, it was re ...

", and the "banned from MTV" video clip of " Spit It Out" — all tracks from the band's self-titled debut were released earlier that year. It also features additional concept imagery and interview footage with lead singer Corey Taylor, guitarist

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and percussionist

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, to a total of 20 minutes of video. The publisher, Roadrunner Records, promotes the video as "a study in the roots of Slipknot" as a response to fans wanting to see what made the band "tick". In the video, band members explain about the release that "basically t'snine people working out every poison that ever affected them in their life and putting it on tape." A DVD version was released on November 18, 2003, and features bonus material of the band performing "Scissors", behind-the-scenes material, and home footage filmed by the band in their hometown of

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. The seven minutes-long concert footage of the track "Scissors" was filmed during the band's appearance at Ozzfest 1999, but has the studio version dubbed over.

Reception

The video was well received by fans and entered number one on the ''Billboard'' Top Music Videos chart, where it remained in the charts for 54 weeks. In the ''Billboard'' Top VHS Sales chart, the video peaked at number four, and remained in for 45 weeks. The video was certified gold by RIAA on December 21, 1999, and platinum on February 16, 2000. In Canada, it sold over 50,000 units, and thus, it was certified gold on February 1, 2000. On allmovie.com, the video was described as "killer" and having a sound "as disturbing as the horrific masks they don to hide their true identities". The video remains unrated in the US, while in it received a mature audience-rating, and in the UK an over 15 one.

;Videography *" Surfacing" (live) *" Spit It Out" (music video) *"

" (live) *"Scissors" (DVD only, live) **Thomas Mignone directed all the live footage for the video, but did not direct the outside clips, where the band members are banging on barrels and starting fires, it is unknown whether these clips are from an unreleased music video or not. ;Other content *Conceptual images *Interview footage *Band's home video footage *Over 20 minutes of exclusive video footage (DVD only)

Personnel

Aside from their real names, members of the band are referred to by numbers zero through eight. *(#0)

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–

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*(#1) Joey Jordison – drums, mixing *(#2) Paul Gray – bass *(#3)

Chris Fehn Christopher Fehn (born February 24, 1973) is an American musician. He was a percussionist and backing vocalist for the heavy metal band Slipknot from 1998 to 2019, in which he was designated #3. He was also the bassist for Will Haven from 201 ...

– percussion, backing vocals *(#4)

Jim Root James Donald Root (born October 2, 1971) is an American guitarist. He is one of two guitarists for heavy metal band Slipknot, in which he is designated #4, as well as the former lead guitarist for rock band Stone Sour. Life and career R ...

– guitars *(#5) Craig Jones – samples,

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*(#6) Michael Shawn Crahan –

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, backing vocals, editing *(#7)

– guitars *(#8) Corey Taylor – vocals *

– director, camera, conceptual imagery * Darci Oltman – producer * L.E.G. Productions – interview footage * Stefan Seskis – camera, photography * Bobby Tongs – camera * Brendan Sherman – camera * Fred Salkind – DVD creative director * Marc Stecker – DVD producer, project manager * Stephanie Masarsky – DVD executive producer * Doug Banker – management * t42design – package design *

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– photography

Charts

Certifications

Release history

References

External links

Article published in ''Symbolic Interaction'' which discusses the content of the albumDetailed review from a fan
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