Vinyl Record

Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind on 2LP vinyl. A 2019 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

2LP · 2019

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2019 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

We Are Not Your Kind is Slipknot in 2019 sounding less like a nostalgia machine than a band that had found a colder, stranger way forward. It arrived five years after .5: The Gray Chapter, with the group now operating in the modern era rather than simply recovering from loss. Insert Coin, Unsainted, Birth Of The Cruel, Nero Forte, Critical Darling, Spiders, Orphan and Solway Firth show how wide the album's field is: choir-led release, blast pressure, industrial unease, gothic detours, distorted electronics and some of Corey Taylor's most exposed recent writing. The title comes from the band's own outsider language, but the record is not merely slogan-driven. Its strength is arrangement. It lets interludes and damaged textures behave like connective tissue, so the heavy songs feel surrounded by threat rather than stacked as isolated attacks. In 2019, heavy music was scattered across streaming scenes, festivals and genre hybrids; Slipknot answered with a full-album statement that still felt like an event. It proved the post-Gray band could be ambitious, not just functional.

We Are Not Your Kind matters because it is one of Slipknot's strongest later-period arguments. The album turns the band's familiar anger into a more cinematic, textured and adult form of hostility, showing that their 2010s identity could be inventive rather than merely commemorative.

For collectors, We Are Not Your Kind is the key Slipknot LP of the late 2010s. It sits after .5 as proof that the rebuilt band had moved beyond transition, and it belongs with Vol. 3 for listeners who value Slipknot when the experimentation is as important as the impact.

Cinematic modern Slipknot with choir hooks, industrial electronics, blast-force riffs, eerie interludes, melodic catharsis, percussion density and a bleak late-2010s polish.

Recommended for: Slipknot collectors looking for the strongest post-Gray studio statement; Listeners who want modern metal with atmosphere, structure and scale; Fans of Unsainted, Nero Forte, Solway Firth and Birth Of The Cruel.

When was We Are Not Your Kind released? We Are Not Your Kind was released in 2019 as Slipknot's sixth studio album. Which songs define We Are Not Your Kind? Unsainted, Nero Forte, Birth Of The Cruel, Spiders and Solway Firth give a strong picture of the album's range and intensity. How does We Are Not Your Kind fit Slipknot's later catalogue? It follows the transitional weight of .5: The Gray Chapter and shows the rebuilt band working with confidence, atmosphere and full-album ambition.