Classical Composer reacts to SLIPKNOT: THE DEVIL IN I | The Daily Doug (Episode 676)

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🚨 NOTE: I reacted to the official video, but it has been blocked on YT. This episode now includes the song's audio only. The original reaction (with the official video includes) is available via my Patreon.
In this edition of #thedailydoug, I'm returning to the music of American Heavy Metal band Slipknot with their 2014 song The Devil in I. I'm finally starting to truly understand the marriage of intense music for intense feelings. These guys were processing the untimely death of one of their fellow band members, and this song was part of their healing process. It's intense, and some of the images are quite graphic. Come along for the journey!
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[@AdvocateofRuin]

Two things about the video. One is the gruesome things being done to them; most are their real fears. Shawn Crahan reveals the idea behind The Devil In I video is to become one with your past devils then to do away with them. Sid Wilson eats his own hands and fingers so he can no longer DJ, Chris Fehn (who has a genuine fear of birds) chose to be eaten alive by crows. The second is that the ones having things done to them are their old masks symbolizing that they have to move past what once was. Those versions of them are dead (literally in the case of the video) with Paul being gone and that they can't ever be the same again. They are accepting to be what they are now making new music by performing the song with their new masks which mirrors the point of the song; moving past the grief.

[@michaeltabor4176]

Great summary. One other neat fact is that the two being stabbed in the wheelchairs were the two new members essentially being "jumped" into the band.

[@doodsomething07]

damn

[@LongandWeirdName]

Fun fact: they were attacked by their main phobias most of the time. Birds, dogs, isolation, not being accepted as members of the band by the fans...

[@joshgruenbaum9379]

Watching you react to the video without being able to see it is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

[@everyonelovesmajima]

The video is the guys all facing their own fears which I dig as a concept. It really highlights Corey and Jim’s fear of explosions. Corey kills the previous version of himself, when he’s sitting at the table he’s wearing his old outfit.

[@liamwright4674]

Doug’s reaction to the video is my new favourite thing 😂

[@g54b95]

Back in the day, if I needed to get caught up on my production at my shop, I would put 'Slipknot' on my CD player at a pretty high volume. Worked every time. I can't imagine how insane it would be to see them live.

[@stevencarman8899]

Love that you take chances on band like Slipknot... Love your reviews... Also Slipknot for me is all the Therapy i need. :)

[@buddykaiser2380]

I've always taken the meaning of the video as the destruction of who they were to become who they are now.

[@gthomas302]

Why is watching him banging his head along to music so satisfying??.😅

[@marcello1395]

I loved your reactions to the video... very funny! Regarding music, I follow your channel and your reviews are always very interesting and informative. Cheers from Rio de Janeiro/Brazil

[@V.F.D.DaleSalvador]

Would love you see you do older Slipknot, the Iowa Album specifically. Joey Jordison was one of the best drummers of the modern day. R.I.P. Disasterpiece, and People = Sh!t would be great to get a Reaction to. Joey at his best. Truly a sound so brutal and percussive only he can do.

[@stephenb.1235]

I love Metal Mondays. You should do more ghost!!

[@richpeltier9519]

Joey was a very important drummer. He did what I'd dreamed of, but lacked the talent. He incorporated drum and bugle corps style line drumming, with it's incredible aggression and unbelievable perfection, into thrash metal. I was fortunate to play Everquest with Paul once. Spent the afternoon playing my Enchanter with his Wizard. What a team. 🤟🧙‍♂️🤟 Rich the Ancient Metal Beast

[@marshaltito7369]

Joey wasn't talented. He practiced a lot and was very creative with his parts. His parts always added and he also shined. Talent does not exist, only practice and creativity.

[@dudee499]

⁠@@marshaltito7369Bs. Most people can practice tens of thousands of hours, but not come up with anything creative or musical

[@FiveSerpentsTeeth]

"Joey wasn't talented" Hahahaha, yeah, ok.

[@marshaltito7369]

@@FiveSerpentsTeeth No, he wasn't. Like I said, he practiced a lot. No musician on this planet has gotten good without practicing.

[@Xeroforte]

​​@@marshaltito7369 Well he worked hard enough at it that he became talented. He didn't have a talent, learned it, then had a talent, you pedantic scrub. What do you think talent means? That it comes out of nowhere? You think jugglers were born throwing balls around or something?

[@deed5811]

I gotta admit, I love seeing you really get into metal songs these days. You've come so far with metal Doug, compared to where you started. Often the more brutal the images, the more serious the message behind the song. This is still one of my favorite Slipknot songs. Also since you mentioned not liking that harsh vocals, it took me several years to learn to like harsh vocals. I loved the music so I kept listening. Now I love the harsh vocal styles as well as cleans. One day it just clicked. Look at harsh vocals as another instrument, not singing, and it will make more sense.

[@durden8122]

Can I just throw out there Sepultura... or maybe Nine Inch Nails?

[@brendontompa-clinch2306]

Hes not ready for sepultura 😂

[@fabiofarina9579]

Waiting very much for Vermillion pt.1 & 2

[@ryanberghuis25]

The chorus kicks ass

[@yusardipradana4808]

No need the video. Your expression explained it all 😂

[@wabajaba2557]

Had a freind introduce me to this song as my intro too slipknot and its still my fav of theirs after listeing too alot of their catalog

[@ricardosaenz569]

I was so happy to see you reacted to this song. It may be my favorite song my them but because of the nature of the video there are not a lot of reactions

[@deathrider7]

Phenomenal track.

[@simonrobinson10]

Others have told the story very well below of the video and song Its in Drop A tuning, incredibly difficult to keep a guitar in tune that low even with thick (almost bass!) strings!

[@arno3221]

We need more slipknot🔥🔥🔥

[@richpeltier9519]

When life gives you demons... make Demonade. 🤟🧙‍♂️🤟

[@marcuspatten558]

Thanks for explaining Slipknot to me once again. I'm happy to listen to them, but i've never figured them out.

[@muttbull]

Re-listened to their discography last week 🤘

[@blackskull4482]

i cried laughing when he started to headbang 😂😂

[@parrydox.gaming]

I’ve always listened to all types of metal and enjoy it all but I will always prefer songs which utilize clean and harsh vocals. It symbolizes the dichotomy of the struggle in which the song dictates.

[@Eirath]

Their video is still up for me on YT. I'm in Europe though, so might be regional.

[@Ravenwish1990]

Doug was often looking like that cat watching a horror movie 😂

[@HeavyMetalHeadMaster]

A Lair's Funeral next

[@antongoatlord6860]

Fun song to jam on me 7 string as well.

[@NumberOneIdle]

Would love to see more Slipknot on the channel!

[@OfficialCrazyLittleBug]

Hey Doug. I've noticed that you haven't really been getting many new bands on metal mondays, and I was hoping I could provide some suggestions for you to really get deeper into what metal has to offer. I'm gonna stick to some more proggy bands because that's what you seem to enjoy the most Vektor - A progressive thrash metal band, I would reccommend anything off of the album "Terminal Redux" Wilderun - Kind of like Opeth except more symphonic and more folky elements, I would reccomend anything off the albums "Veil of Imagination" or "Epigone," and they're more of a band where it'll be better to listen to the whole album Atheist - Pretty much the birthplace of technical death metal. Lots of time signature changes and jazzy harmonies coupled with good old death metal. I would reccomend anything off the album "unquestionable presence" Death - Widely considered to be the first death metal band. Their later albums have lots of prog elements. I would reccomend anything off the album "symbolic," or "voice of the soul" if you want a beautiful instrumental Hope you decide to look at some of thse bands or just explore more metal in general.

[@underwoodvoice9077]

Thanks for the Wilderun recommendation. I definitely hear the Opeth connection. I'll check out your other recs on the strength of this one...

[@alexbell-d8p]

It amuses me that Doug thinks he's heard extreme metal. I so want to see a review of Viking by Slaughter to Prevail. "We're gonna need a bigger chair!"

[@ebohn92]

One of their music videos has bugs, and I was so confused why that video bugged me more this this movie, and I realized it's because I know all this is fake but the bugs are real, lol.

[@PiousMoltar]

It's kinda fucked honestly how they pay so much respect to Paul (okay that sounds wrong lol, that's not what I mean, hear me out), who died of an overdose, and then they kicked Joey out of the band for still having drug problems, and now he's dead too. Like, shouldn't they have shown him some support too? But it seems instead, they saw his drug use as disrespectful to Paul. Which makes sense. Kinda. I guess they never liked Joey as much as Paul... that's probably what it comes down to in the end.

[@jospehbloseph7172]

I hear you here. However, as a recovering heroin addict, I was absolutely unreliable, totally untrustworthy, irresponsible, self centered, selfish, etc. I can’t imagine someone trying to work with me, write with me, tour with me, I’m sure they tried everything before saying “we just can’t do it dude.” I’ve read interviews and articles and stuff about how the parting went down and I think there was a lot of shitty, unreliable behavior before that parting. Sad, all of it really

[@corssecurity]

Slipknot has put out several albums since and two in the last three years. Plenty of material to review.

[@leoangelo1234]

Hey Doug! I love your channel, I learn a lot from your videos. You do BEAUTIFUL work for all of us musicians. Thanks for all your effort and for bringing such wonderful, entertaining and educational material for us. I come here with a suggestion for a metal monday song: Computer Eyes, from Ayreon. I'd be so happy to see it featured here. All the best to you.

[@ericreitzel2155]

Have you done any Stone Sour? Would like that. Jim Root is fantastic. And great reaction to this, I like this Slipnot song for sure-maybe my favortite.

[@nocturne9257]

I'd really love to see your reaction to Deathspell Omega - Abscission. It's avant-garde black metal and there is a lot to talk about on the music theory side of things.

[@johntheisen6791]

Hey Doug love your show. Great choice for the Metal Monday. I have a suggestion for Metal Monday can you dive in to some Black Sabbath of the Born Again album. Song is Disturbing the Priest. Not a lot of reactions from this great album from Sabbath. Rock on Y’all 🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@rsimmons732003]

I would like to see your reaction to one of El Estepario Siberiano videos. He does a lot of covers but some of them one handed just as a challenge

[@Juan_Sanchez-Vililobos_Ramirez]

Doug so scarred!

[@patrick95d]

Loving this band! I saw them live with Sleep Token and Nothing More as the support acts. Also 2 bands that I would highly recommend to check out! Especially the song called The Summoning by Sleep Token Another band I would love to see a reaction from is Bad Omens

[@Gojira135]

For Sleep Token i would really recommand Ascensionism and the title track of their last album, Take me back to Eden, two incredible songs and maybe also Higher for an older track

[@ireallyreallyhategoogle]

Love your analysis of the music.

[@jason.r9273]

live version is beyond

[@stegwise]

if you're interested in Slipknot you should check out the mashup video done with them and the Spice Girls. it's very revealing about the nature of Slipknot's music and what's really going on there.

[@scifiordie]

Hello Doug. Please consider doing a reaction to Vektor in the future. The band has an incredibly unique sound that really pushes the envelope in metal music. I feel like there can be drawn parallels between their magnum opses, Charging the Void and Recharging the Void and Rush's Cygnus Book I & II due to the lyrics, at least.

[@HiImMach]

Would love to see you do one on an older Fear Factory song like Resurrection

[@rickgiles3633]

You are one of the few who get it.

[@ivanstrydom8417]

''Not happy.'' XD hahaha nope, not happy haha

[@datboi4216]

Hey Doug, for the next metal Monday you should listen to Trust by Megadeth. I like it a lot and would like to hear some of the terminology behind the stuff being done!

[@symphonyofshred]

Doug, you have to check out Lorna Shore’s pain dancing like flames.❤

[@courtneywallace871]

Great metal song. On a side note, I notice Us by Peter Gabriel in the background. Have you reacted to any of that?

[@eternalbliss3487]

8:40 😂😂

[@margaretc5679]

Oh boy... what sadist asked you to react to this video? We know you don't like gore! Brilliant song. One of my favorites. Absolutely horrific music video. I can't watch it past the first verse!

[@Doug.Helvering]

I appreciate your empathy!! But I also appreciated the full experience...in a way 🫠

[@margaretc5679]

@Doug.Helvering I appreciated it. Once. When it was first released. Official audio only for me since then. 🤣

[@srenjohansen1592]

I really hole you will react to more Rammstein. Du Hast, Sonne ect

[@junkjunkie001]

Love Rammstein, they've been my favorite band for yrs. I'm 66 & still they get my blood flowing lol. Ich Will is my fav. They've got so many good ones tho.

[@gematria696]

You should check Killpop from the same album!

[@saibankannoshi]

do Dream Theater - The best of times please

[@СергейШпагин-г3я]

це розйоб, сто відсотковий

[@stevebury6560]

I am going to make a request to see what you think of this band and song. The song is a metal song but the guitar on this song is very goog. The singing is excellent with multiple layers to her voice. ARCH ENEMY - Handshake With Hell (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

[@pigebear]

Was the video blocked ?

[@pigebear]

I see nevermind

[@pigebear]

Not an illusion.

[@damixr2888]

Merci !

[@Doug.Helvering]

Thank you for your support!

[@NPC-30]

3:35 Hertas. Not triplets.

[@dimitrisathanasakis5025]

next time you cover Slipknot you should listen to AOV

[@ulisesdanielcajal7919]

Dead Memories. Please

[@desireezachry8086]

No video? Ur sooooo missing out

[@t_DriftKing]

can you check out the band Bring me the horizon please id love to hear your feedback

[@bobabier5394]

5:02 no need to repeat the lyrics. we hear them.

[@joshuafowler5592]

KZbin is so full of "trained" musicians reacting to metal bands. It seems as though metalheads need validation that they're listening to good music. I don't get it. Does it sound good to you? Do you feel anything when you listen to the song? If so, why do you need an expert's opinion? I could start a KZbin channel and label myself an expert "jazz drummer", react to all the bands mentioned in the comments, and I would never say "this band sucks" because I'd lose followers. In fact, I've never come across a video where a trained musician says a band is terrible, even when reacting to death metal songs that many would label as "noise" in real life. I know many trained musicians, and I am a metal musician myself. But if you need these videos to feel validated about your music choices, good for you!

[@NarutoSSj6]

Never been into slipknot. There something that traps people to thr band, its just not alluring to me. Sounds flat and meaningless, as if things are playing just to be playing

[@Lleanlleawrg]

I like 'em live, because they do a great stage show and the music is very approachable and headbangable / moshable. Some of the songs are alright, but mostly it's just the live performances that interest me about them. There's something very clinical and corporate about them I don't enjoy. They present this image of brotherhood and community, but they're not above backstabbing one another either. They fired Joey and recently Jay for example. The members have talent but Slipknot is more brand than band, in my view.

[@psalm23v6]

🤢 band

[@karlschmitt6359]

One of the many groups, in my opinion, to stay away from! Weird!

[@Kree_]

Listen to Snuff, Circle, Goodbye, Vermillion Pt. 2 and think again about your opinion

[@karlschmitt6359]

@@Kree_ yep, I've thought about it, and it's still the same!

[@derochehope]

😒😒 They are really a great band. Some minds aren't intense enough I guess.

[@HermanOfTheLost]

If this seems like a lot to you, then you are very weak

[@JasonB666]

Quit fn around and do Disasterpiece

[@gNome_5]

Omfg, I'm dead-watching your reaction 'bout had me rolling on the floor laughing-knowing what you were viewing! 🤣 Kudos to you for keeping an open and empathetic mindset, though. 😉 Idk why, but seeing or viewing scary and/or gory images just doesn't bother me-maybe there's something deeply and profoundly disturbing in me. That being said, however, I do believe that being faced with some of these types of subject matter in real life undoubtedly would. 🫣