Slipknot ‘Snuff’ Video Premiere
20 December 2009
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by Marc Patterson
Clearly Slipknot has matured a bit from their early nu-metal antics of the late 90′s. They just debuted their full video for Snuff yesterday and I must say it’s pretty impressive. Snuff, the fifth single from All Hope is Gone is a creepy and highly stylized mind-bending video with Lynchian elements sure to please both fans of the band and horror. The video features horror icons Malcolm McDowell (most recently of Halloween fame) and Ashley Laurence, who you remember from the Hellraiser films.
Directed by M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan (of Slipknot) and the king of metal music video P.R. Brown, the video is a thing of haunting beauty that will have you watching it more than once. Check it out below in Hi-def.
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I was really excited to see this video as I am a long time fan and in my current state can completely relate to the tones of the lyrics and song. It was as if the song was written about my ex girlfriend who completely destroyed me, twice. Fool repeats his folly though right? BoD now…
Anyway my criticisms are that I do not like that he chose the shoe as something to remind him of her scent (which apparently by the visions at the end of the video he is smelling his own shoe…?). I would have picked up her shirt to smell and stayed a man.
I can’t understand why he wants to dress as her either, or become her. Other than he is trying to combine their identities so he can still hold on. The only sense that comes out of it is that there is no sense because he is haunted by her memory.
The blood in the film brings together the tortured mind and suffering body, helps drive home the punchline, I’ll never be me again.