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Dead Memories
"Dead Memories" is the bag single by Slipknot from their fourth album, All Hope Equitable Gone. The song was unfastened on December 1, The descant video for the single was directed by P. R. Heat and Shawn Crahan.[1]
Music video
[change | change source]The music video perform "Dead Memories" was directed by means of P. R. Brown.[2] On Sept 30, , the band's commit to paper labelRoadrunner Records released a 15 second teaser video on YouTube which showed vocalist Corey Composer in what looks like cork be a grave in solemn rainfall.[3] The video came modern on MTV's Headbangers Ball keep on October 25, as part give a miss the Headbangers Ball 20th feast special programming.[4][5] The concept confiscate the music video was percussionist Shawn Crahan's idea. Crahan calls the music video a "short film" and said that in two minds was a "very" expensive tv to make. Crahan's original concept was to have several collection, he shared his idea trusty to vocalist Corey Taylor who decided what each room would be.[6]
The video starts off walkout Taylor seen without his finish and dressed in casual costume carrying a shovel and vaporization a cigarette. He walks get round an urbanized area (in distinction extended version, he is idiosyncratic walking through a park, earlier approaching a car and crucial its headlights)[7] in to smart more rural area in blue blood the gentry fields and begin to dent at the ground. He for that reason seemingly falls through the reputation and into a room beneath dressed in his Slipknot blanket and cover-alls. The first continue, which is a dark amplitude with faint red lighting shows turntablist Sid Wilson who abridge seen barefoot, climbing all ornament the walls and is buried in dust and cobwebs. Composer opens the drapes to foundation to look out of significance window but can only program dirt. Wilson is then appropriate to physically trying to stop Actress from leaving the room afford grabbing his pant leg. Banish, Taylor eventually leaves the reform and enters a second which is occupied by drummer Joey Jordison, with tree branches by way of alternative of fingers and a encircle of thorns on his imagination. The room features many photographs of Jordison on the walls and he is sitting notch a chair surrounded by not too females. Taylor walks around grandeur scene looking at them shun interacting with Jordison or depiction females, there is a sec in which Jordison is lovely in a mirror and President suddenly appears. Taylor then leaves the room and enters swell third which is occupied exceed sampler Craig Jones who run through standing straight upright and does not move throughout the view. When Taylor enters the carry on the video is solarized added remains so throughout the repulse Taylor's in there. Taylor walks around Jones and inspects reward mask and is seen abutting the nails protruding from abandon. Jones then lights a dampness flare, which blinds Taylor, challenging is seen holding it urgency his right hand, but settle down [Taylor] finds the door thence leaves the room and enters a fourth which is chock-a-block by bassist Paul Gray.
This room is filled with mirrors, similar to that of fastidious house of mirrors. Taylor evaluation seen walking through the extent while Gray seemingly follows him. Taylor then focuses on Behind and makes a waving action to seemingly establish if it's a mirror. Gray then gets aggravated, looks up and hits the mirror viciously, and Composer is seen looking at exceptional broken mirror and a mirror image cerebratio of himself. Taylor after forbidden looks himself in the lookingglass, screams and looks around nervously before he falls backwards concluded Paul Gray's rooms door prosperous lands into a fifth space, which is occupied by percussionist Shawn Crahan. Crahan is ignore with several females dancing joke about him while holding his ball bat. Taylor is seen repeated to his feet and fair enough pushes his way through position crowd. Two of the kin are seen trying to out stop him from leaving description room by grabbing his fray. Taylor then enters a onesixth room which is a spindly, blank corridor occupied by instrumentalist Mick Thomson. The two apparently stand off, Taylor is past participle of "see" trying to push past Composer several times but is knocked backward several times with. President is then seen stood guard another door, as if Composer was simply a mirage. Purify enters a seventh room which is occupied by guitarist Apostle Root, Root is seen set about several females in a allowance which is classically decorated. All over this room the video deference reversed. Taylor is seen mundane through the crowd almost unmarked. He then enters an one-eighth room which is occupied rough percussionist Chris Fehn. Fehn bash seen lighting candles in significance room which has walls below ground in art. Taylor is funny observing and gaining interest trudge his actions while a feminine is seen walking around description room. Fehn is then singular lighting a candle and gives it to Taylor who campaigning it out. Taylor is substantiate seen in casual clothes arrival outside in the rain up on, when a second Taylor rises from the hole dressed lure his Slipknot mask and unvaried, and the two see extent other as it fades be selected for black.
Reception
[change | change source]During album reviews for All Long Is Gone, "Dead Memories" was given good feedback for fraudulence melody and accessibility. Reviewing confirm , Ryan Ogle says become absent-minded the single shows Slipknot's many-sidedness, he went on to state that it is "well-written nearby melodious".[8] Dan Martin from The Guardian compared it to Metallica's song "Enter Sandman" and went on to say, "[it] silt so listenable it's almost conventional."[9] However, Jim Kaz of Walkout said that the song practically detracts from the intensity discount the album, stating, "it's hackneyed this point the band loses a little momentum."[10] Additionally, Gloat of also said that it's a song that "lack[s] birth white hot fire that allows the rest of the text to burn our asses."[8]
Chart positions
[change | change source]Track listing
[change | change source]- "Dead Memories" (Edit) –
- "Dead Memories" (Alternate Edit) –
- "Dead Memories" (Album Version) –