Slipknot released their sixth studio album, "We Are Not Your Kind", on August 9th of this year. It was longly awaited as the band released two tracks off the album, being 'Unsainted' and 'Solway Firth', beforehand, which definitely hyped fans up for the album's release.

I gotta say I was definitely looking forward to the 9th, as I planned on locking myself away in my room and playing the album on repeat. Everyone was talking about how it was going to be just like "Iowa" and "The Gray Chapter" combined, but to be honest, it wasn't really what I expected.

'Solway Firth' and 'Unsainted' were two very good songs, in my opinion, and I thought were going to serve as an indicator of how the album was going to be.

On that Friday, I read some of the other reviews and saw that, for the most part, they were all positive and praising Slipknot for the new album.

Songs off the album like 'Nero Forte' and 'Orphan' do provide that signature, hard, Slipknot sound, but to be totally honest, it sounds pretty generic to what they've done in the past already. I'm not saying everyone who thought the album was good was wrong, I personally didn't enjoy the softer sounding-ness of the rest of the album. I thought the song placement within the album was jumbled and out of order. The songs didn't really compliment each other when listening through. This album really sounded like the band was trying to be more experimental than actually provide a genuinely rooted album that brought them back to the past. Apart from the tracks they pre-released, the band sounds like they've gone more along the lines of "commercial hard rock" than what we've been used to. I don't discredit the band at all, as they are extremely talented musicians. All I'm saying is it wasn't what I expected.