On August 9, 2019, SLIPKNOT unleashed their sixth studio album, "We Are Not Your Kind," and proved the masked nonet from Des Moines still had teeth. Their first full-length in five years, it stormed to number one on the Billboard 200 — SLIPKNOT's first chart-topping album in over a decade — while pushing further into unsettling, atmospheric territory than any record since their debut. Singles like "Unsainted" and "Solway Firth" balanced industrial aggression with genuinely massive hooks, choir-like backing vocals, and moments of eerie restraint that made the album's violent peaks hit even harder. New masks, a rebuilt lineup, and nearly twenty years since "Iowa" hadn't dulled the band's instinct for chaos. "We Are Not Your Kind" became a defining late-career statement, proving nu-metal's most theatrical survivors could still headline festivals worldwide and introduce an entirely new generation to the Nine.
