June 6, 2024 5:46 pm
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Every video posted by Slipknot In its increasingly nearly thirty years of history, it offers a particular perspective of the reality that the masked men have shaped over the years, creating a very characteristic and personal world that has now undergone the analysis of a psychotherapist, who He surprises with the conclusions he draws after watching all the Iowans’ video clips.
Taylor Palmby is the psychotherapist who, after publishing in the HeartSupport YouTube channel separate analysis of each of the band’s videos Corey Taylor and company, wanted to make one last video in which they reach a final conclusion, signed especially after viewing “The Devil in I”, one of the songs on the album ‘.5: The Gray Chapter’. “Instead of masking our pain, Slipknot invites us to wear it,” Palmby begins to explain. “And if I know anything about therapy it’s that nothing happens, nothing changes, you can’t heal until we bring the darkness to the surface.”
Overcoming the vaguer opinions of those who for years have criticized the prominence that Slipknot gives to the image, many going so far as to ignore their music, Taylor Palmby assures that “the band not only sings about pain, they wear it.”
During the video in which he explains this conclusion, images of Shawn Crahan talking about the dark mask he wore in the stage of ‘All Hope Is Gone’, in which The Clown He explained that it was a representation of some personal problems that he had gone through during the previous stage of the band and he did not want to speak or be seen, leading to that black mask closed with a zipper in the mouth. Regarding this explanation, the psychotherapist indicates that “their masks tell their stories”pointing out that Crahan “carries his own scars.”
The analysis also got to how Slipknot fans connect with the band and each other, sharing their love for Slipknot and their mutual pain: “The Maggots are brave. They really lean into the spirit of this band.”
Finally, Taylor sets out to create her own Slipknot mask following the steps she has learned through what was exposed in the band’s videos, representing the pain that the band encourages to bring to the surface in order to crush it.
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