America 250 Song #4: "Duality" by Slipknot

I've never featured a Slipknot song on Rocktober before, and now's as good a time as any, since I'm trying not to repeat bands/artists from the same state, and there aren't a ton of hard rock bands from Iowa.

Formed in 1995 in Des Moines -- which a lot of people don't realize is French for "the moines" -- Slipknot has like six dozen members, all of whom wear a unique creepy mask and jumpsuit.  They also play heavy metal music, and quite successfully at that.  Of the band's six studio albums, only their debut album didn't reach the Top 3 on the Billboard album chart, and three of their albums went to #1.

Released off of the band's third studio album, 2004's platinum-selling Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), "Duality" was one of the band's biggest hits, reaching #5 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #6 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, #15 on the UK pop chart, and the Top 40 on the pop charts in Germany and Sweden.

The song is mostly a pretty hard metal song, with Corey Taylor kind of speed-talking the verses before the choruses explode with "I push my fingers into my EEEYYYYYEEEESSSS."  But what I've always liked about the song is that behind the brutal riffs and general hardcore nature of the song, the chorus is pretty damn melodic and hooky.  A duality, if you will.

Perhaps the coolest thing about the song is the video.  It was filmed at a fan's house in West Des Moines.  Apparently, the house was soon going to be renovated.  The band plays inside the house, while dozens of fans descend upon the house in what looks like a scene from Cornheart.  (I assume Cornheart would be the name of a Braveheart-style movie set in Iowa.)  They basically destroy the house in the process, breaking windows, plowing through walls, bustin pipes, and the like.  Hopefully, the renovations went swimmingly.