.5: The Gray Chapter

Lyricist: Slipknot.Audio Mixer: Joe Barresi.Recording information: Jim Root's Garage; Sound Factory Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA; Sunset Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA; WEstlake Studios, Los Angeles, CA.Editor: Dan Monti.Photographer: Shawn Crahan.While even a cursory listen to Slipknot's back catalog makes it clear the band are no strangers to working out their inner turmoil and pain through their music, never has that idea been so abundantly clear as it is on their fifth outing, .5: The Gray Chapter. Their first studio album since 2008's All Hope Is Gone, the album finds the band still recovering from the loss of founding bassist Paul Gray, whose death in 2010 hit them pretty hard. Rather than allowing their pain and anger destroy them, they were able to harness that energy and focus it, allowing them to create one of their most visceral and dynamic albums to date. Combining the punishing, pummeling metal of the band's early work with the more melodic focus of their later years, The