Left Behind (Slipknot song)

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“Left Behind”
“Left Behind” cover
Single by Slipknot
from the album Iowa
Released 2001
Format CD
Recorded 2001
Genre Heavy metal
Length 4:04
Label Roadrunner Records
Producer Ross Robinson
Slipknot singles chronology
"The Heretic Anthem"
(2000)
"Left Behind"
(2001)
"My Plague"
(2002)

"Left Behind" is the Grammy-nominated, second single by nu metal band Slipknot from their 2001 album, Iowa. The song ranked number 30 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. The song has a similar riff to that of the Smashing Pumpkins song Zero.

The music video for "Left Behind" focuses primarily on a young boy who is first seen cutting up goat in a market. He then goes to his dirty, rundown home where bullies throw stones through his windows. The boy uses filthy faucet water on his Froot Loops and watches Slipknot on an old television set.

Slipknot is shown performing the song in a dead forest (perhaps in Iowa) that, toward the end of the video, is heavily rained on as the song becomes even more intense. This video also marked the video debut of Slipknot's new costumes.

"Left Behind" is one of two singles to come from the Iowa album. The video is sometimes mistaken that the boy was a psychopath; although, he is not. This is one of the few pre-Subliminal Verses songs to feature little to no swearing. A radio version of the song removes the drum fill preceding the chorus as well as silences the background chorus vocals.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Left Behind" - 4:04
  2. "Liberate" (live) - 4:27
  3. "Surfacing" (live) - 5:10

Also contains Left Behind Video (Director's Cut)

[edit] Links

'Left Behind' video on Youtube[1]