A percussion interlude. In FLAC, you can isolate up to five distinct surfaces: a trash can lid, a 22” kick drum with no muffling, a metal pipe, Craig’s “torture rack” (hammered springs), and a distorted 808. The decay on the pipe hit rings for 4.2 seconds—a mastering decision that would have been gated on earlier albums.

Prog-metal leanings. The clean guitar arpeggios (left channel) versus distorted power chords (right) create a call-response. In FLAC, the stereo image is wide (>70% separation). Streaming’s joint stereo mode collapses this to ~50%.

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    • We Are Not Your Kind is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot, released on August 9, 2019, via Roadrunner Records. It is the band’s first album following the death of longtime percussionist Chris Fehn (who was replaced by Michael Pfaff, aka “Tortilla Man”) and the last to feature guitarist and founding member Paul Gray’s replacement, Jim Root, before his later departure (Root remained on this album). The album was produced by Greg Fidelman (known for his work with Metallica, Slipknot’s .5: The Gray Chapter).

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