Surfacing (song)
| Surfacing | |
|---|---|
| Slipknot | |
| publication | June 29, 1999 (album) |
| length | 3:38 |
| Genre (s) | Nu metal |
| Author (s) | Slipknot |
| album | Slipknot |
Surfacing is a song by American Metal - band Slipknot .
background
The song came about when the band members moved to Los Angeles to Mate on the upcoming demo album . Feed. Kill. Repeat. (1996) to work. At a party that was held there, the band clashed with other visitors. With this song the band wanted to show these people how "crazy" the Midwestern United States ( Iowa, to be precise ) is, where the band originally comes from.
Chris Fehn , one of two percussionists in the band, said in an interview about surfacing as follows:
“It basically encompasses everything. Kind of encompasses the attitude of the band and the attitude of how we feel about life: Don't judge me. Everything that you think that you know about the world, and about Slipknot, and about your own life, might not be the case. So I think it's just openmindedness and just be cool. "
“It basically includes everything. It encompasses the band's attitude and how we think about life: "Don't judge me." Everything you think you know about the world, Slipknot and your own life may not be the case at all. So I think it's just cosmopolitan and cool. "
Others
The song since the release of Slipknot played regularly for Slipknot concerts, making it one of the most played songs of the band ever and comes to more than 500 performances. Surfacing is usually listed as the last song on the set list, but was also found as a previously played song or even as an opener at early concerts and in phases of the tour for the fourth album All Hope Is Gone (2008). The VHS / DVD Welcome to Our Neighborhood includes a live recording of the piece. Likewise was Surfacing part of the performance at the London Arena on 15 February 2002, which in the same year under the name Disasterpieces was also released on VHS and DVD. The song was also played live on the video album (sic) nesses , which included the concert at the Download Festival 2009. On the live album 9.0: Live there is also a live recording in audio format of the song from the tour for Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) (2004).
Roadrunner United , a supergroup that includes a large number of members of the bands that are signed to Roadrunner Records , covered the song on the company's 25th anniversary at the group's only gig in New York. The cast included Robb Flynn ( machine head , vocals), Andreas Kisser ( Sepultura , guitar), Dino Cazares ( Fear Factory , guitar), Adam Duce (machine head, bass) and Roy Mayorga ( Stone Sour , drums) during the performance .
The song was not officially released as a single, so no associated music video was shot. Only in France was the composition distributed to radio stations and magazines as a promo single in 1999 .
The chorus of the song " Fuck it all, fuck this world, fuck everything that you stand for, don't belong, don't exist, don't give a shit, don't ever judge me " is also on a photo all band members have been printed on the back of the debut booklet.