Ear listening to song exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece

to the story of how they were made.

My name is Tabwin.

This episode contains explicit language.

Slipknot is a Grammy winning metal band from Des Moines, Iowa, who first formed in 1995.

They've sold over 30 million records.

In this episode, guitarist Jim Root breaks down how Slipknot made the song unsan'ted.

From their 2019 album, we are not your kind.

My name is James Root and I play guitar in a band called Slipknot.

This song is an amalgamation of some stuff that I had written at home, some riffs, and

then some jams that I do with our drummer.

You know, ideas that we'd come up with while we were touring.

That melody line is what burved that tune.

I always have melodies rolling through my head and I don't really know where they come

from.

In order to kind of reel it all in, I would go out to Los Angeles and work with our producer

Greg Fiddleman, who's a very influential and helping me sort all the things in my brain

out and make sense of them.

Sometimes I end up forgetting them, but you know, this is the benefit of having a Greg Fiddleman

in time to work in a studio because you can just sit there and you can get all these

melody lines out and eventually they evolve into a song like unsanitary.

I've purposely made her to point not to become a schooled guitar player because I feel like

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