This track starts with a massive, slow doom-metal riff. The 320 kbps encoding allows the listener to feel the separation between the bass drum (sub-60 Hz) and the bass guitar (60-100 Hz). Often in metal, these frequencies clash. Fidelman’s mix ensures they are separate, but you need the bandwidth to perceive it.
To understand the weight of We Are Not Your Kind , one must understand the turmoil that preceded it. Following the release of 2014’s .5: The Gray Chapter —a sombre, grieving record written in the shadow of founding bassist Paul Gray’s death and the departure of drummer Joey Jordison—the future of Slipknot was uncertain. The band had survived tragedy, but questions lingered about their ability to recapture the visceral, dangerous energy of their early years without key members. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind -2019- -320 KBPS-