u/Conscious_Industry87

hey guys! i have been watching some reviews of the new static dress album and i’ve seen a lot of people say the songs would have sounded better in a different order, and while i personally think it sounds fine it got me thinking. if you had to reorder the songs on a stranger to you, how would you place them? here’s mine:

1- entrance. always felt like sort of an intro song especially with yhe rising in tension at the end. and it’s named entrance which i feel like could be cool in the context of it being the entrance to the album

2- block of flats. this may be controversial but i think the chnage in pace from entrance will give it a very dynamic and engaging feel

3 - fortress down seems very early album to me and track 3 just seems right. still an easy listen but it shows progression from bof

4 - gemini. by the time the listener has gotten through the first 3, they are gonna be too comfortable and need to be shaken around a little.

5 - nothing like the knife because after 4 songs another interlude seems like a nice idea

6 - harder to pretend. seems very mid album to me, contains a lot of substance and meat but still isn’t throwing you around like early and late album songs

7 - athena. i like the idea of sandwiching harder to pretend between two interludes.

8 - revenant. i know they played this song after athena in concert, so it just seems right to do that on the album as well cause that’s what everyone’s used to? it also flows well to have the two heaviest songs positioned evenly balancing out the album as a whole.

9 - the way it breaks. idk if it’s just me but the outro to revenant almost seems to connect to this one? dont know if that was on purpose

10 - meet my maker. another meat song i think it breaks up the way it breaks fork the rest of the album well.

11 - fangs. definitely works as a end of album song, winds down but still leaves expectations for the rnd

12 - the ladder gets you comfortable again, just for your mind to be blown by the last

13 - stranger to you. i could see it as an intro or an outro tbh. definitely seems to sum up the record well and in a calming way. really feel confident about it as a closing track after thinking it over

(decided to leave out gifted every strength just cause it’s not really a good song imo. kinda drags the whole second half and really doesn’t make my tummy feel good.)

thanks for reading! drop your reorders in the comments

Hey r/slipknot! i just discovered the band through spotify auto play recommendations. i had always heard of the band but sort of brushed it off until now. the first song that played was eyeless, but im concerned that maybe the song could be fully or at least partially ai generated? i didn’t notice it that much at first just a little bit as i explored more from the first threeish albums my concern is growing. has this been addressed? i would say i am about 75% convinced that at least the vocals if not the whole band is ai generated. thanks!

i feel like i’m just in a prison i mean anywhere you go in the world if you screamed as loud as you could and even louder than that to the point where your vocal chords snap and your lungs just explode the amount of people who would even hear you is vastly insignificant compared to the 8 billion people on earth. the only way i can actually be heard is through music and i just don’t have the skill to actually express myself correctly even after 6 years of practice. i know it just takes time and eventually ill get there, but in the moment i just feel like my entire value is just tied to if i can eventually make something IM proud of, and every day that i cant it feels like my entire value is a risk because its all just in my head and none of it exists in the real world yet.

im year like 6 of making music and i feel like im just not good enough at all yet. i would trade anything in the world to make my iliiaite, but i know its still gonna be years before i can. i would rather die the most painful death and have my music never even be recognized but still finally make a project i can be as proud of as i would be iliiaite than be the most famous musician in the world with music that i think is just ok. i feel like im drowning all the time wanting to express myself through music but just being good enough to do it