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Antennas to Hell (2012)
Artist: Slipknot
Type: Compilation album
Released: July 23, 2012
Label: Roadrunner Records
Genre: Nu metal • Alternative metal • Groove metal
Length: 79:48
Producer: Ross Robinson, Slipknot, Dave Fortman, Colin Richardson
Antennas to Hell is a greatest hits compilation album by Slipknot, featuring fan favorites, singles, and a previously unreleased track. The album spans the band’s career from their 1999 debut to All Hope Is Gone (2008), highlighting both aggressive hits and melodic tracks.
📦 Cover Art & Design
🎨 Design Highlights
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🏴☠️ Dark, Apocalyptic Theme: The cover features a stylized human skull intertwined with metallic spikes and radio waves, symbolizing chaos and broadcasted aggression.
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🎭 Reflects Slipknot’s signature mask imagery and heavy metal aesthetic.
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🖌️ Color palette dominated by black, gray, and muted reds, emphasizing the band’s dark, chaotic themes.
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📀 Minimal text, keeping focus on symbolic and menacing artwork.
The design reinforces Slipknot’s identity and complements the compilation’s retrospective nature.
🎵 Tracklist
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(sic)
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Eyeless
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Wait and Bleed
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Surfacing
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Spit It Out
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Tattered & Torn
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The Heretic Anthem
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Disasterpiece
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People = Shit
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Left Behind
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My Plague
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Vermilion
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Before I Forget
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Duality
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Sulfur
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Psychosocial
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Dead Memories
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Snuff
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All Hope Is Gone
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Til We Die (Previously unreleased)
👥 Band Lineup (Compilation Era)
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Corey Taylor – Lead vocals
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Mick Thomson – Guitar
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Jim Root – Guitar
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Paul Gray – Bass
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Joey Jordison – Drums
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Shawn Crahan – Percussion, backing vocals
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Chris Fehn – Percussion, backing vocals
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Craig Jones – Samples, keyboards
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Sid Wilson – Turntables, samples
🎶 Top Tracks
⭐ Wait and Bleed
Debut-era single, remains a fan favorite.
⭐ Duality
One of Slipknot’s most recognizable and high-energy songs.
⭐ Psychosocial
Melodic yet heavy track from All Hope Is Gone, widely praised.
⭐ Til We Die
Previously unreleased; became a hit among longtime fans for its intensity.
📈 Commercial Performance & Grossing
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🥇 Peaked at #18 on the US Billboard 200
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💿 Certified Gold (U.S.)
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🌍 Worldwide sales: ~500,000 copies
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⚡ The compilation served as a gateway for new fans and a collector’s release for longtime supporters.
🏆 Recognition
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Featured in multiple “Best of Slipknot” fan polls
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Praised for including nearly every major hit alongside the exclusive new track
🎤 Fun Facts & Trivia
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🎵 Til We Die was previously unreleased and exclusive to this compilation.
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🎭 The album celebrates the band’s first 13 years of career output and their evolution of sound and imagery.
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📀 Released with both standard and deluxe editions, including enhanced booklet artwork and liner notes.
🤯 Did You Know?
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The title Antennas to Hell refers to the band broadcasting their chaotic music across the world like a signal.
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This was the last compilation released before the band’s hiatus and lineup changes in the 2010s.
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The album helped introduce Slipknot’s earlier material to a younger generation of metal fans.
