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"Solway Firth" is a song by American heavy metal band Slipknot. Produced by Greg Fidelman, it was released as the second single from the band's sixth studio album We Are Not Your Kind on July 22, 2019. The song's music video was directed by the band's percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan and features footage from the Amazon Prime Video series The Boys. The track peaked at number eight on the US Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart and number 14 on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart.

"Solway Firth"
Single by Slipknot
from the album We Are Not Your Kind
Released	July 22, 2019 (2019-07-22)
Genre	Thrash metal[1] melodic death metal[2][3] stoner metal[4]
Length	5:56
Label	Roadrunner
Songwriter(s)	Shawn Crahan Jim Root Corey Taylor
Producer(s)	Greg Fidelman Slipknot
Slipknot singles chronology
"Unsainted" (2019) "Solway Firth" (2019) "Birth of the Cruel" (2019)
Music video
"Solway Firth" on YouTube

Background

"Solway Firth" was released on July 22, 2019 as the second single from the band's sixth studio album We Are Not Your Kind, following "Unsainted" two months previously.[5] The song's title refers to Solway Firth, a section of sea which forms part of the border between Scotland and England,[6] but may also be alluding to the Solway Firth Spaceman, a popular subject of ufology; the recurring lyric "Here's an unexplainable one" is a likely allusion to this.[7]

Reception

Media response to "Solway Firth" was generally positive. Reviewing the song for Metal Hammer, Adam Rees claimed that it was "an altogether different assault" from "All Out Life" and "Unsainted", describing the track as "dramatic, a little troubling and downright heavy".[6] Similarly, Kerrang! magazine called it "a six-minute masterpiece".[8] Loudwire's Lauryn Schaffner praised the performances of vocalist Corey Taylor and drummer Jay Weinberg on the track, outlining that "Corey Taylor's vocals [shine] through with brutal intensity [... and] Jay Weinberg's drumming also stands out as a high point, crushing extended double kick patterns throughout the cut."[9] Several commentators have recognized "Solway Firth" as one of the "heavy" and "experimental" tracks promised by the band on We Are Not Your Kind – Nick Reilly of the NME claimed that the song "borders on Iowa levels of heavy", referring to a description made by Taylor,[10] while Kerrang! also quoted Taylor when claiming that the single "boast[s] the 'experimental' side of the band's sound".[8]

Music video

The music video features footage from Slipknot's summer 2019 European shows (including Download Festival) interspersed with clips from the Amazon Prime Video series The Boys.[10] It was co-produced by Uproxx and Prime Video, with the band's percussionist and frequent director Shawn "Clown" Crahan directing.[11] Ryan Reed of Rolling Stone outlined that the "gruesome" video "alternates head-banging live performance footage with violent clips from" the series, highlighting "Bloody scenes [including] a man holding two severed arms and one character bashing someone's head into a bathroom sink."[12]

As of July 2022, the song has 70 million views on YouTube.

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References

На других языках

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- [en] Solway Firth (song)

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[es] Solway Firth (canción)

«Solway Firth» es una canción de la banda estadounidense de heavy metal Slipknot. Se lanzó como el segundo sencillo y canción que cierra su álbum de estudio We Are Not Your Kind el 22 de julio de 2019.

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[ru] Solway Firth

«Solway Firth» — песня американской метал-группы Slipknot. В сопровождении видеоклипа[2], песня была выпущена в качестве второго сингла с шестого студийного альбома We Are Not Your Kind 22 июля 2019 года. Название песни отсылает к фотографии, известной как «Солуэй-Фертский космонавт», на которой запечатлена улыбающаяся маленькая девочка, и «космонавт», стоящий позади неё. При этом, фотограф, сделавший снимок, утверждает, что за девочкой в тот момент никого не было. Идея же песни заключается в том, что очень просто сфабриковать или исказить реальные факты, выдав их за действительность.

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