Sulfur

"Sulfur" is the third single from the band's fourth album released on March 9, 2008 in Los Angeles. (A few days before the end of U.S. Tour) This video was co-led by percussion Shawn (The Clown ) Crahan and directed by PR Brown (MÖTLEY CRÜE, MARILYN MANSON, Chimaira, Avenged Sevenfold), which is the third time he has worked with Slipknot in a music video. On April 14, 2009 Slipknot released 30 seconds of video on MTV, and announced that the music video released next Headbangers Ball on April 18, 2009. The video shows the nine members of Slipknot playing in groups of three, as well as pictures of each member under water giving the impression that water is the Sulfur (Sulphur).

Shawn Crahan spoke on Sulfur:

This is the third video I've done with Paul Brown and with every video we learn more from each of us and the art of slipknot and build on that knowledge each new project. It is good to try with different people but sometimes it is better to stick with a winning team.

When I write I think "That has not made Slipknot? "That we can invent on the knowledge we have and an old ball?". We can fall into the routine so we need the band then look back and say. "God this was really new, cool and artistic"
This was based on an artistic piece called "Ascension" by Bill Viola, this arts center in Des Moines. You look and it is something solid, basically this man jumping over a body of water, it happens in a slow for 30 minutes and it is really scary
Then for this video wanted to give what more we could for our fans, tired though we live performances are always re-creating us.

This time we did not want to put the whole band together on stage but groups of three where the camera rotates so there are times when the camera lost my rhythm because this focus that makes joey. The first group was Corey, Mick and Craig, the second was joey, sid and paul and the third was Chris, Jim and me.

When I think of sulfide odor blind me, is something that people love or hate and if you hate it suffocates. We wanted to use something that you put down, in this case water we had this giant tank of water and sulfur yellow as the smoke, when all the jump in the first time I saw all so integrated with our art, the water was dirty and was a tank where paracia really small that you could hit your head with the glass or break your nose against it.

It was even more sick because we had a paramedic in case you drown to save you. I see the video as a testament to where you believe you have to do is dangerous, if least you did something wrong, dañaste yourself, use this piece which shows the fear that is felt between each member and no doubt we had a great time
raealmente is something comforting and shows how we see ourselves.

Dead Memories

"Dead Memories", is the second single from the album All Hope Is Gone and was released on September 30, 2008, the band's label Road Runner Records released 15 seconds of video on your Youtube channel which features vocalist Corey Taylor in what appears to be a tumbadurante heavy rain. The video premiered on MTV's Headbangers Ball on October 25, 2008 as part of the 20th anniversary of Headbangers Ball. The concept for the music video was developed by percussionist Shawn Crahan, Crahan music video called a "film" and admits that video is a "very" expensive. Crahan The initial idea was to have several rooms, introduced the idea that the vocalist Corey Taylor decided what each room would be.

Shawn Crahan talks about Dead Memories:

I've been doing the address of the concepts, writing and working with many of our videos from the beginning. I've always been the type. Not that I want to be a director or write scripts. It's just that I'm not interested in the ideas of others. I am not at this point in my career where I'm crazy Worrying about the artists who come to us with a mold for a sculpture and then follow his art. I've always been the kind of person who has had the strength in my opinion, and that's how you get to direct cooperation. This video, I am co-directing with Paul Brown, and decided, finally, the guy after 12 years to look into my eyes and say, "You're going to co-direct the video. You're going to run in, because you're great at that. "

And the concept is my idea. And it was a very serious moment for me, because I felt that Slipknot had to move in a different way than we have been doing. I only had good luck with "Dead Memories," and is a very personal song for Corey, so we met him and told him my idea of having all these doors in the video. I let him pick what each room would be, basically, Paul Brown mentored me and forced me to this.

For me, this is huge. I can almost smell and taste what I see of the little things, little edits make me mourn. Therefore, it is an honor to be able to co-direct a video of this kind and I do not think people have seen anything like this from us. It's out there, man. It's really there because it's time. Do not want to waste any more time in people's fundamental ideas about what they think of Slipknot. We have enough. We have given everyone a bit of what they have been necessary for us. We have done this because we want to make an impact worldwide.

And this is a very expensive video. It's actually a short film, and most people thought we were going to bite off too, and we did, but it is the way we like. And the sole purpose of this short film would be an experiment to help finalize the "Dead Memories" by Corey. What took so deep. He thought the ideas through other means, which was completed lyrics to a musical score. Well, guess what? I'm going to dig an entire backup and forcing in eight categories of this madness. And it is art, then who knows what it means? Who cares what it means? Just let it mean what it means to you.

Psychosocial

"Psychosocial" is the promotional video of the band's fourth album called "All Hope Is Gone" released on August 26, 2008. This video was directed by Paul Brown (Korn, Marilyn Manson) and the world premiere of the video was aired on MTV called "FNMTV." The Clown talked about the video and said he had been working recently on the concept of the video and think the fans appreciate the work the band has been in the clip.

"They are supposed to be called 'video treatments,' but it makes me more like threats," Clown said. "I send these real weird threats that make no sense, and people like Paul says, 'I'm sorry, but I'm going to implement things so that we get the money to do it." Basically, the video is a metaphor we are in our career. "

Without going too far, Crahan said the clip was filmed at the Sound Farm studios in Jamaica, Iowa, whose members recorded the album "All Hope Is Gone", which features scenes of execution dead near a pond in a lush field.

Also in the video you can see the burning of giant masks used during the wait the new album. Shawn talked about representing the burning of these masks and this was what he said:

"More or less, we have these giant masks that we wear, called 'purgatory masks." Which represents the ego, "he said. "So the video is based on leaving things as they are, and return to more or less what we do, that is to rock. With me, the idea was based around going to extremes. I wanted to get a phantom camera, which can take a shot at 1,000 frames per second, is psychotic. Then I wanted to get a handle of 35 mm, like Vietnam or something. We have two worlds - we have the most extreme on both ends, with nothing in between. That's what the video, and no one does. There is an art form behind it. The video features live scenes, with serious consideration of location, color and just art. It's pretty impressive. "