"XIX" is a promotional single by American
heavy metal band
Slipknot and the opening track for their fifth major label studio album ''
.5: The Gray Chapter''.
The song was first released as a digital single on October 14, 2014 on the same day as its subsequent track "
Sarcastrophe
"Sarcastrophe" is a promotional single by American heavy metal band Slipknot from their fifth major label studio album '' .5: The Gray Chapter''. The song was first released as a promo/digital single on October 14, 2014, the same day as the album ...
". It was the second promo released from the album. The official
music video
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was uploaded to their official
YouTube
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channel privately on October 5, 2015 and made available to subscribers to Outside the Nine updates early.
Background
The song was uploaded to their official YouTube channel with a few days leading up to the release of ''
.5: The Gray Chapter''. The song was released along with "Sarcastrophe". Both featured original cover art. The song charted at number 36 on the US Rock Digital Songs chart.
An official music video was released for the song on October 5, 2015.
Critical reception
Greg Kennelty described the song by saying "The song builds and builds, edging toward total paranoia, and finally arrives at… nothing." Metal Injection described the song as "Slipknot's most
emo
Emo is a rock music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of and hardcore punk from the Washington D.C. hardcore punk scene, where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore and pioneered b ...
track off ''.5: The Gray Chapter.''"
Charts
References
Slipknot (band) songs
2014 songs
Songs written by Corey Taylor
Songs written by Jim Root
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Emo songs