Snuff (song)

"Snuff" is a song by American heavy metal band Slipknot.[1] Released as the fifth and final single from their fourth album All Hope Is Gone on September 28, 2009,[2] the song charted at number two on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, their highest-charted single to date, surpassing "Dead Memories".[3]

For the Slayer song of the same name, see World Painted Blood.
"Snuff"
Single by Slipknot
from the album All Hope Is Gone
A-side"Snuff" (radio edit)
B-side"Snuff" (album version)
ReleasedSeptember 28, 2009
FormatCD
Recorded2008
StudioSound Farm Studio, Jamaica, Iowa
Genre
Length
  • 4:36 (album version)
  • 4:12 (radio edit)
LabelRoadrunner
Songwriter(s)Corey Taylor
Producer(s)
Slipknot singles chronology
"Sulfur"
(2009)		 "Snuff"
(2009)		 "The Negative One"
(2014)

Roadrunner Records placed "Snuff" at number six for its greatest music videos of all time.[4] The song was also nominated for Best Single at the Kerrang! Awards 2010,[5] but lost to "Liquid Confidence" by You Me at Six.[6]

It is the final single released from the band with their full original lineup before the death of bassist Paul Gray who died eight months later after its release, and also the final single released before drummer Joey Jordison who was fired from the band four years later. During recent solo acoustic shows, Corey Taylor has performed an acoustic version of "Snuff" as a tribute to Paul Gray.

"Snuff", "Psychosocial", "Dead Memories", "Wait and Bleed", "Sulfur", "Left Behind" and "Pulse of the Maggots" were released as downloadable songs in the Rock Band series.

Background

"This is the slow one. It's another personal one. Again, not naming names, it's about someone who helped me through a lot and I thought she felt the same way that I did and then she really let me down. At the same time, it was good that she did, because it was that final push to me figuring out myself. The lyrics are pretty self-explanatory." – Corey Taylor[7]

"Corey doesn't really write music for Slipknot – but, when he came over to hear the songs Paul [Gray, bassist] and I were working on for All Hope Is Gone, he showed me this… I had him lay a scratch track down in the studio. Then I went in late at night, without telling him, and laid down some drums… When he heard it the next day, he started crying. It's Corey's masterpiece." – Joey Jordison[8]

Music video

It was announced on October 14, 2009 by Roadrunner Records that a music video fit within enough production quality to be considered a short film was to be released for "Snuff",[9] which premiered on December 18, 2009 at 11:09 PM CST.[10] It was co-directed by Shawn "Clown" Crahan and P. R. Brown, and features Malcolm McDowell and Ashley Laurence of Hellraiser fame.[11] Corey Taylor is seen for the third time in a Slipknot video without his mask (the other two times being: "Dead Memories" and "Before I Forget") and is cross-dressed at the end of the short film.[12]

The video's meaning is hotly contested. Whether or not he is a killer is still debated today.

As of June 2020, the song has 110 million views on YouTube.

Chart positions
Chart (2009–10)[3] Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles 10
U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs 12
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks 2
U.S. Billboard Rock Songs 6

Track listing
Promo single
  1. "Snuff" (radio edit) – 4:12
  2. "Snuff" (album version) – 4:36

Personnel

Aside from their real names, members of the band are referred to by numbers zero through eight.[13]

References
  1. "Maggot Brains". Spin. 24 (9): 118. September 2008. ISSN 0886-3032.
  2. Slipknot -Snuff Archived 2009-09-25 at the Wayback Machine. FMQB. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
  3. "Snuff-Slipknot". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
  4. Guyre, Jen (2010-04-30). "The Ten Greatest Music Videos in Roadrunner History". Roadrunner. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
  5. "Relentless Energy Drink Kerrang! Awards 2010". Kerrang!. June 23, 2010. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
  6. "And the winners are..." Dan. 2010-06-29. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
  7. "Snuff" by Slipknot. Songfacts. Retrieved 2010-01-31
  8. Bryant, Tom (14 July 2012). "Hell unleashed". Kerrang #1423. p. 25.
  9. "New Music: Slipknot, Megadeth, Killswitch Engage". Roadrunner. 2009-10-14. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
  10. B. Crawford, Allyson (2009-12-18). "Slipknot, 'Snuff' -- Short Film Premiere". Noisecreep. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
  11. Snuff short film featuring Ashley Laurence. Dailyradar. Horrorblips. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
  12. See Slipknot's Short Film Snuff Starring Some Familiar Faces
  13. "Biography". Slipknot. AllMusic. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
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