When Slipknot first arrived on the scene in 1999, their entire reason for being appeared to be chaos, destruction, violence and hatred. It wasn’t the kind of thing that you’d expect to trouble the mainstream music charts. But the band had an ace up their sleeve: they didn’t soften their attack, but, by adding just a touch of melody to one of their songs, The Nine managed to rule the charts, invade mainstream television and go platinum. This is how Wait And Bleed did it.
