Rappers React To Slipknot "The Heretic Anthem"!!!

[@backfate678]

Nice reaction dudes!!! As internet says: The line from the song's chorus, "If you're 555, then I'm 666" has nothing to do with Satanism. And it is characterized as: corrupt people - 555, people who sing not for the sake of money - 666

[@Red_Ring_Of_Death]

The song is a direct shot at the industry and the bullshit they pull behind the scenes. Another interpretation can be whoever you have strife with in your life as being, "You're 555? Fuck you, I'm 666." Corey has talked about those two interpretations many times.

[@isaacelgrande2.084]

@@Red_Ring_Of_Deaththis could also be taken as a religious outcry against Christianity, as Corey mentions infatuation, defamation with no confrontation, and deception from Christians as a whole. Simple answer, basically slipknot looking at Christian’s and yelling, “GOTCHYA BETCH”

[@Benobot99]

Being in the audience and chanting the "Six Six Six!" with everyone is such a cool feeling. That big breakdown is an out-of-body experience to witness live.

[@gr3mlin404]

This song is insane to hear live, especially during the chorus because you get the crowd chanting "If you're 555, then I'm 666" which just makes it more epic.

[@SpiralOut8.]

Yes! Seen them live 3 times now and it's always incredible 😁

[@A-AronX]

Yea

[@dreadnought2529]

Their performance of this song on Conan was awesome

[@invictx7137]

I went to knotfest in rogers Arkansas and MANNNN that shit was crazy! It’s funny cause I’m a Christian and I begged my god for forgiveness but I had such a great time😂🤘🏼

[@KenBober]

Wow I actually woke up in time for this.

[@jasonsanders6630]

Gotta tell ya, that subtle break in the chaos at 9:07-9:08 is absolutely amazing. Just a quick pause and back to the drop. Gets me every time

[@joeblume573]

They did this live on Conan talk show when they first started off. Worth a reaction video by itself.

[@darkguitarist3476]

the heaviest song played on Conan probably. hahhaha that was awesome.

[@holdencaulfield8429]

?!

[@zeckjason]

My favorite Slipknot performance.

[@collt091]

@@zeckjason same

[@imaware7551]

I remember watching this live and thinking this is insane they are performing this song on TV.

[@rylanhupalo1401]

The Heretic Anthem was written as a "fuck you" to the music industry for asking them to "tone the anger down" from their first album, there's more to it but that's the just of it

[@punksterdude8290]

What he said ^^^^^^^

[@robertcutting4007]

66 years old, love Slipkont! They are nuts and I just love them. Peace

[@zeustruth7127]

I am a Knot Junkie. And listening to you guys react makes is all better. I am a recent subscriber and I keep up as much as I can. Thank you guys for doing this. Keep up the good work guys. Much love

[@Hollywood6IX]

Welcome to The Family

[@YodaRules]

And what an amazing family it is. My 4 yr old daughter wakes up every Saturdayorning and asks me if there is another "whapper wheact" (she has troubles with R's sometimes) but I don't correct her as it is adorable!

[@BigHomieSteveTheMetalHead]

It's about time lol, I'm glad you finally get to this banger of a song! Joey's drumming on this song is relentless, I highly recommend you guys check out "Gently" from this album if you haven't already. It's different from every other song on Iowa. Corey's screams on "Gently" are the most brutal screams he's ever done, he sounds like a literal monster lol. "Gently" is a very underrated song in Slipknot's discography, it's in my top 5 Slipknot songs! Great reaction guys, have a great weekend! 🤘🤘🤙🤙

[@merlinevseichik9479]

Gently is amazing, definitely super under-rated song.

[@billbill3915]

The live version on 2002's Disasterpieces is fuckin' dope.

[@felipegiraldo8100]

the most brutal scream he did was that one on Metabolic my bro..

[@punksterdude8290]

Joey's drumcam for this song on the Disasterpieces dvd is well worth a watch. He's a machine.

[@Hollywood6IX]

Dang we're gonna have to check this out.

[@wkynes]

Its insane!

[@oler00]

Just watch the whole DVD!!! Well worth checking it out!

[@GodOfThunder6789]

It’s more directed to the music industry. The opening line, “I’m a pop star threat and I’m not dead yet” Awesome reaction guys.

[@TheRuffiankid]

The music industry said they should play more radio friendly songs and this was their response. Epic!

[@travisryanseager9627]

Love your guys reactions! I’ve been a metalhead for 21 years and it’s just so cool to get fresh perspectives and the joy and passion you two bring! Fan from South Africa! Peace!

[@lindacoy7165]

There’s a video of a kid on his dad’s shoulders in the pit. I sent it to your Twitter account over a month ago (I thought you guys already did this song). It’s so awesome because a bunch of Maggots are surrounding the dad to protect the kid, and the kid looks like he’s having the best time. Happy Slipknot Saturday!

[@acrevelations8457]

You guys need to react to The Heretic Anthem live on Conan O'Brian. This is when they were at their prime.

[@hodgezthehellcat1666]

It's about time!!!.... trash talkers your in for a real treat!!.......SLIPKNOT SATURDAY!!!!

[@levibarns7576]

You guys are reacting to one of my 7 (yes 7) favorite slipknot songs. Thank you :)

[@vierdo]

So darn awesome.. Cant wait till you guys actually go to see an Slipknot concert and do a Vlog report of it. \../

[@Duskwalker68]

This one is really fun to see live, the crowd always gets really into the chorus!

[@LAFC.]

This song is a Slipknot classic and they play it at all their concerts.

[@Madd2510]

More SILVERCHAIR, songs suggestions u should write down to react to: Faultline, Shade, Israel son, Tomorrow, Nobody came, Slave, Abuse me, the lever, One way mule, after all these years, the greatest view

[@melanielawrence4422]

This song is an attention getter for sure. Joey’s drumming is relentless and perfect. Easily one of my favorites off the Iowa album. Speaking of, please react to Iowa the song soon. It’s definitely an interesting one. There’s a live performance of it from 2016 that is really good as well. Thanks for the reaction. Stay awesome!!

[@YodaRules]

Another great reaction guys! I have been waiting for this one, the song is such a banger 🤟🤟🤟

[@metalguru85]

This song is the most intense and crazy song at any Slipknot gig. With the exception of perhaps Spit It Out when the crowd gets down 🤘

[@MeanT241985]

Well damn, it's about time! Can't call yourself a maggot until hear the anthem 🤘🤘

[@Hollywood6IX]

so are officially maggots now

[@neab1320]

Finally!! Love you guys you’re the best reaction channel ever y’all got me into slipknot and now they’re my favourite band! Love from Australia! What are y’all’s favourite slipknot song?

[@GrinnSkull]

Seen these guys play this song on a late night show on tv when the album dropped I was very impressed

[@fast_mattw8059]

Best slipknot song ever hands down. Ill never forget seeing this live on the Day Offest in Portland Maine. It was a killer lineup but Slipknot stole the show. This is THE HERETIC ANTHEM!!!!!!

[@kristaspecht]

Morning!! Happy slipknot sat! Was awesome to see your reactions to this song! Some serious headbangin goin on! Love it!🤓❤️

[@waynephillips6779]

Yes yes yessss I knew you’d love it guys Made my day thank you 🤟🤟

[@p-slipknotfreak]

Happy Saturday my dudes. Been wanting for you to do this one. October is when I get to see SK so I'm counting down the Saturdays!

[@alfonsoreyes8121]

Long overdue. Should’ve been one of the first songs reacted to. Finally!!!! Slip Fucking Knot

[@jacobmcculloch8197]

they played this song live on conan in 2001 and it was great . their current drummer jay weinberg was at that show and it was his first experience of slipknot and he loved them so much

[@microgirl3789]

Love the reaction guys! So happy you finally got to it. The best Anthem out there! ❤️🤘

[@bobblair4046]

Very well done reaction. Every time I hear one I gain more knowledge!

[@BloodandSoilNS]

Shit is better live. Disasterpieces DVD. Love Slipknot Saturday's! Love the reactions!...... Keep em coming.

[@Marc28031984]

I heard that 555 stands for the phone number in Hollywood.

[@maneatingpie2338]

I always thought 555 was represented as being fake, like movies and everyone's phone number starting with 555 and 666 being the real deal... as the number of the beast... the beast being man

[@BloodandSoilNS]

This song was a fuck you to the music industry. They meant heretic as nobody wanted them, and then they blew up and every label wanted them. Less to do with heretic in a religious sense and more to do with being a heretic in a societal sense.

[@MikeKroth]

When I saw Slipknot live he says this is a song against the record industry.

[@cannibalcorpse123]

This song and the rest of the album is just gold 👌the nu metal genre has so much emotion and aggression in it. Love it

[@mikefelty2625]

I would love to see you guys react to some Chimaira. Everything You Love, Stigmurder, Year of the Snake, Power Trip, Disappearing Sun, and Down Again would all be good choices. They are an underrated metal band from the late 90s to the 2010s

[@gregorysiegel1178]

This was the first metal song my 4yr ever sang, it drives his mom nuts.

[@yvancluet8146]

I discovered this song by chance when I was I think 8. It blew my mind and made me a metalhead, and later on a music lover in general. If I hadn't heard one of my brother's friend mention it and looked for it on limewire I wouldn't be the person I am today. Hadn't listened to it in a few years, and goddamn. It still grooves like mad and kicks some major ass

[@yaranen2797]

Bro I wish ever rapper/hip hop head would react to slipknot, metal in general, like the 2 of you did lol I can’t tell you how happy this made me 😭

[@bgGameClips]

Boys, you need some Alexisonfire in your ears. They have a brand new album called "Otherness". First singles are "Sweet Dreams of Otherness" and "Sans Soleil". From all the stuff I watch you guys listen to and love, this will slide right in there.

[@heatherodonnell7655]

I grew up with slipknot and get to see them finally in may! I can NOT wait! My 36 year old body will be aching but it’ll be worth it

[@punksterdude8290]

About bloody time. Absolute banger. One of my favourites.

[@dubravkogamingyt3526]

That background music "happy life" gave me so many memories

[@joshhale9355]

Oh boy, this is my favorite track from my favorite Slipknot album. I just started the video but I’m very excited to see this Edit: fantastic job, also let’s go for the fucking Acid Bath shirt!

[@tnightwolf]

By far one of their greatest songs imo!

[@daraider1977]

Just a heads up Fellas New Slipknot dropped yesterday The Dying Song ( Time to Sing) it’s pretty Bad Ass . Screams Slipknot Saturday 🤘🏽🔥🔥🔥

[@justinshook5332]

It ain't Slipknot, but Stone Sour has done some great covers. "Outshined", 'Unchained", "Bombtrack", "Gimme Shelter", "Creeping Death" and "Seasons In The Abyss" deserve particular attention.

[@p-slipknotfreak]

Have you seen Corey do I Ran I love that one

[@SuperClarky666]

Theres a live version on conan o brien that is insane would have loved to see you react to that.

[@samhainmoon1848]

I love that Smokey rocks that acid bath shirt alot I've known those guy a long time. I wonder if he's has ever heard dax's solo stuff.

[@jasonsanders6630]

We finally made it to Heretic Anthem!!! I think you’re ready to react to Iowa next. Buckle up 👍

[@eriktaylor6272]

I remember catching them perform this song on Late Night with Conan O'Brien waaaaay back in the day. This was before DVRs back when you couldn't get the episodes on the internet, so it was completely by accident. By far the best late show performances I've ever seen to this very day. That was Slipknot in their prime. And of course this was way before Jay Weinberg joined the band... but his dad Max and the "Max Weinberg 7" were Conan's studio band at the time.

[@BlackWolflord]

RIP Paul and Joey.

[@ryancoke777]

I remember when Slipknot absolutely laid waste to the Conan O'Brien show every day for an entire week and the heretic anthem was my fave 😀🤘

[@ngillette80]

It is speculated this song is about the industry and 555 is something they use in the movies for phone numbers as the area code a way to have a phone number in a movie without it being a real phone number you can see it in everything TV shows movies to this day

[@mikethemotormouth]

Number prefix, not area code

[@JakeK27]

You guys are fucking awesome for appreciating the Masters of metal thank you so much you know I'm subscribing now

[@davidriddick82]

DO THIS LIVE in London 2002 YOU ARE NOT READY FOR IT LIVE 🔥🤘🏻😈 IF YOUR 555 then I’m 666 This song is called… The Heretic Anthem!! (Corey introducing it gets me every time)

[@Carnifex20]

Man this gave me back some happy teenage memories. First Slipknot song I ever heard.

[@Brotha_Teresa]

Hollywood - “Oh, No!” Corey - “Yeeeeeeah!”

[@kyleyoung6298]

Bro fr that shit had me dead 🤣

[@jamesjohnston1935]

Have you guys done "Pulse of the Maggots" ? If not, you need to. Especially the live version.

[@scer17]

I love watching you guys. You're amazing. 💙

[@crystalspears465]

So this song kinda has a double meaning. It is going with the against religion thing but it was also a kind of slap back to the naysayers in the music industry at the time that Slipknot were having to deal with. Cause even after their first album was successful, they still had people saying they were a flash in the pan with no long lasting potential. This was them basically saying "you know what, we are everything you're not and what ever it is you think we are, you're wrong" I've also read that it was somewhat directed toward the president of Sony records, who they were originally going to sign with, until the president or CEO or whatever saw their audition and sent a memo out that basically said "do not sign this band and if this is the future of music, I don't want to be alive anymore" and apparently when Slipknot went platinum, they sent him a bouquet of either black roses or dead roses (can't remember which) and basically said well we're the future of music!🤣🤣🤣

[@Yuunkers]

You need to react to The Heretic Anthem live on Conan O'Brian!!! they are brutal!!!

[@MetalMonkey]

Listen to this again and switch the word Heretic with "Hairy Chick", that's what i thought it was for years!! That's the problem with listening to "new music" on ipod/mp3 shuffle mode 🤣

[@XxSupermodder22xX]

Moto mtx played instrumental of this on there game back in like 2005. Still shook the damn tv speakers

[@yeet130]

Hey guys! This is an amazing song and I'm so glad that you guys reacted to this but can you guys react to Downer, Serve the Servants, Floyd the Barber, Sliver, Sifting, Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle, Verse Chorus Verse, Mr. Moustache, And Dive which is all songs by Nirvana? (Saying this until you guys respond Day 3)

[@Minuslife1]

I'm really digging those shirts

[@JakeK27]

At the end when you asked what's happening now you have to listen to the CD or the full album because every song connects to the last it's fucking insane

[@coldinlifesthroes]

Smokey, your Acid Bath shirt!!! One of my favorite bands of aaaalllll time. Taste ❤️‍🔥

[@ahahafloppsboo4063]

ACID BATH SHIRT SPOTTED

[@adambirnstihl9390]

The live version from London is insane to watch

[@gregoryjames174]

555 is the number for Angels, often referred as The Neighbor of the Beast which is 666. That's not what Corey is talking about but that's what it really means.

[@ethanpretre1113]

Love the Acid Bath shirt man. Need to find mine! To be honest I lost it in a move and I may need to buy another.

[@jasonmarquis3027]

What you gotta react to next is GWAR. Craziest show of the 80s. GWAR GWAR GWAR

[@MAXLevel-russianbarrier]

i can’t believe ur jus reacting to this iconic slipknot song

[@mistymichelle9957]

😁🎧🎶🎧😁 Saturday mornings rule thanks to y'all! As "the black sheep" of my family the entire Iowa album has meaning for me. I've bucked the rules since I was a toddler, so... I'm 100% the heretic...which was really just a fancy label the clergy attached to people that refused to conform. P.L.U.R.R. from ATX!!

[@mattboselli1099]

Well, here we gooo. Slipknot sat. Always look forward to this day. Your 555, then I'm 666 .

[@davidmassey6332]

In addition to the biblical meaning, in all hollywood movies, the phone number always starts with ‘555’. So he is also saying, you can be hollywood, we’ll be us

[@tnightwolf]

10:49 for me it has always somehow (and oddly) always connected to the track Iowa itself.

[@salemtrials7432]

I effin love Slipknot Saturdays. Great reaction. No one writes so eloquently and angry. Keep it up guys! And as always please react to Volbeat, Shotgun Blues. I’m telling you that song is one of the best metal songs to come out in a few years. Lots of Metallica influence.

[@GingerKidCustoms]

Brooooo, you guys HAVE to watch some live videos of this song. The crowds go ape shit!!! It is truly an anthem for all maggots i feel

[@riyintocco]

This is a divisive track. It’s about the band being approached to write more “mainstream/radio friendly” tracks by labels in the music industry and how they refuse that mediocrity. Now their a huge mainstream band… disclaimer: I still love Slipknot, but it’s hard to jam some of their “fuck the system” songs when I can buy a Corey Taylor action figure and No. 9 whiskey 🤦🏻

[@theCrownofSympathy]

I can get behind them selling merch and masks, I can even let the toy figures slide. When they started selling their own brand of whiskey, that rubbed me the wrong way. These guys not only struggled with their own addictions, but also they lost people in their lives to substance abuse. Then they turned around and started selling the shit to fans. That to me reeks of hypocrisy. It's obvious it's all about money at this point. I will always enjoy Slipknot's older music, but I have a hard time getting behind this band these days.

[@riyintocco]

@@theCrownofSympathy exactly. We all have faults/opportunities, but like, they could maybe put the money into rehabilitation and helping the community in that way instead of just marketing alcohol and consumable figurines. I completely support growing a brand but it contradicts the first two albums entirely. Fantastically talent musicians who seem to always mean well with their intentions as a collective, it’s just an odd choice to me.

[@mB-bz8ik]

Please react to "The Burden"!! This is definitely one of their most underrated songs and it will be a completely different style you've heard from them. Picture the refined artists they are today making a song for the Iowa album 🤘🤘🤘

[@melturgeon1]

When i went to their concert on may when they ask" if your 555" then im the crowd anwered 666 and went crazy after people=shit this is my fav song live btw im french Canadian sorry for my english

[@Mavi0809]

Think Smokie is on the right track right, just a version of “we are not your kind”, “if you are 555 then I’m 666”

[@mattmoore383]

Hell ya this song is very clear what it means an also kills it at the same time!

[@casper4202]

This one is amazing live!!! 🤘🖤

[@luigidabber4573]

Y'all should check out Slipknot's new song, "The Dying Song"! PLEASE!!!

[@jasonsanders6630]

Sup fellas. I came back to say that if y’all are planning on reacting to the song Iowa anytime soon, do some research on it first. It had a crazy back story. Not only what the song is about, but what corey was going through when he recorded it. He was cutting himself with glass, making himself puke and all kinds of shit during the recording of it. It’s a wild ride and takes your head to a fucked up place. They only performed this song once I believe at knot fest and it took a toll on Corey. You can tell afterwards. Can’t wait for y’all’s reaction to it 👍

[@charleslyon2569]

If an album with over 250m sales with this as the main single with 140m downloads (known of Spotify only) in the middle of the height of limewire and Napster can’t be considered a masterpiece I don’t know what can be. Who knows how many millions of downloads this song actually had this is what blew slipknot up but their first album was fire too.

[@leonidasneves7972]

LMAO I CANT BELIEVE U GUYS HAVENT SEEN THIS LOL XD

[@MrAbarer]

Finally Now listen to lamb of god the song terror and hubris in the house of frank pollard. This song is brutal as fuck and badass.

[@heathcornbeef]

How many mice doe's it take to screw in a lightbulb? Well at least two but how the hell did they get in there?

[@jc2004x]

555 is a reference to being generic. 666 is a reference to being something other than expected.