Iowa

Fue el segundo álbum de Slipknot con Roadrunner Records, fue lanzado en el 2001. El título del álbum hace referencia a la ciudad en la que los integrantes del grupo viven casi anonimamente (Des Moines, Iowa). En el cover se puede ver la cabeza de una cabra, y también se ve una imagen de la banda en vivo y una imagen del video "Left Behind". La mayoría de las criticas fueron favorables.
Asi que de esta produccion veremos los videos "Left Behind" y "The Heretic Anthem"

Left Behind:

I've known faces that have disappeared in time
Find me wrapped in glass and slowly soaked in lime
All my friends have pictures made to make you cry
I've seen this and wondered what I've done to
Calcify...
(I ignore you)
As I close my eyes, I feel it all slipping away
(I come toward you)
We all got left behind, we let it all slip away
I can't stand to see your thalidomide robot face
Don't even try it! You had to be a liar just to
Infiltrate me - I'm still drowning
(I ignore you)
As I close my eyes, I feel it all slipping away
(I come toward you)
We all got left behind, we let it all slip away
Take...this...away...take...this...away...
I can feel it on my mouth
I can taste you on my fingers
I can hear you like the holy ghost
And kill you if you get too close!

Aunque las máscaras, signos extraños y gritos puedan hacer pensar que hay componentes satánicos, los miembros del grupo afirman que no son ni fueron satánicos; a pesar de la canción The Heretic Anthem, cuyo coro dice: "If you're 555 then I'm 666" (si tú eres 555 yo soy 666), refiriéndose el 555 al hombre, y 666 a Satán.

The Heretic Anthem:


I'm a pop star threat and I'm not dead yet
Got a super dred bet with an angel drug head
Like a dead beat winner, I wanna be a sinner
An idolized bang for the industry killer
A hideous man that you don't understand
Throw a suicide party and I'm guaranteed to fucking snap
It's evilsonic, it's pornoholic
Breakdowns, obsceneties, it's all I wanna be

If you're 555, then I'm 666
If you're 555, I'm 666
(What's it like to be a heretic?)

Everybody's so infatuated
Everybody's so completely sure of what we are
Everybody defamates from miles away
But face to face, they haven't got a thing to say
I bleed for this and I bleed for you
Still you look in my face like I'm somebody new
TOY - Nobody wants anything I've got
Which is fine because you're made of
Everything - I'm - NOT

If you're 555, then I'm 666
If you're 555, I'm 666
(What's it like to be a heretic?)

30 seconds, 16, 8, 4 lemme tell you why
I haven't the slightest, I'm teaching your brightest
They're listening - clamoring
All the money in the world can't buy me
GO AHEAD, LIE TO ME
Tell me again how you're tortured
I wanna know how you followed your orders so well
You're full of SHIT
You had a dream, but this ain't it