The music video for the single was shot on March 9th, 2009 (just two days before the end of their American tour) in the Los Angeles area. It was co-directed by percussionist Shawn Crahan and P. R. Brown making it the third time he’s worked with Slipknot on a music video. On April 14, 2009 Slipknot released a 30-second preview of the video through MTV and announced that the music video would be premiered on Headbangers Ball on April 18, 2009.
The video depicts the nine members of Slipknot playing in groups of three as well as footage of each individual member submerged underwater

Clown about Sulur:
This is the third video I’ve done with Paul Brown and with each video we learn more about each other and the art of Slipknot, and we build on that knowledge with each new project. It’s great to jump around and try new people, but sometimes it’s better to stay with a winning team.

When I write a treatment, I always think, “What has Slipknot not done? What can we embark upon that will be fun and knowledge-enhancing instead of the same old song and dance?” Our business can be routine, so I need the band to be able to do something brand new so we can look back at it later and say, “God, this was different and fun and really artistic.”

This one was based on a visual art piece called “Ascension” by Bill Viola that’s at the Des Moines Arts Center. You go down in this room and it’s solid black and it’s basically this gentleman jumping into a body of water. It’s shot in a high frame rate and it happens over 30 minutes and the sound’s slowed down, and it’s just scary.

So for this video, we are the treatment. We like to give our fans as much of us as we can, and even though we’re tired of live performance, we’re always trying to take it to the furthest realm. So I figured this time we’d change up the live performance by shooting groups of three instead of putting the whole band up in a scenario and then the camera rolls by and misses what I’m doing because it’s focusing on Joey. The first group was Corey, Mick and Craig. And then the second group was Joey, Sid and Paul. And the third group was Chris, Myself and Jim.

When I think of sulfur I go blindly into the smell and it’s something people either love or hate, and if you hate it, then it can be suffocating. So, I went to a parallel universe and incorporated water as something that suffocates you instead of being derivative and contrived and just showing the yellow smoke of sulfur or something. We got an 11-foot water tank and we all jumped in it, and we all had our issues. It was the first time I saw everybody very concerned with something we had to do for our art. You had to go up this really weird ladder and the water was dirty and it was a five-foot by five-foot tank and it looked like when you stepped into it you were gonna hit your head on the frame that holds the glass and it would just rip your nose off.

And we were even more freaked out because they had to have a paramedic there that could swim and save you if you were drowning. I look at the video as a testimony to being able to believe in what you had to do. It was dangerous. If you just did it a little bit wrong you were going to hurt yourself. And it happens to be my favorite video ever because it involved that fear. We used a 45 lens like they used in “Gladiator,” which makes everything super-sharp, so the motion is really in your face and you really feel what every member is doing and we just had a fantastic time. It’s probably the best we’ve ever looked and I think it reveals more of how we see ourselves.

Sulfur

Released: March 17 2009
Album: All Hope Is Gone
Director: M. Shawn Crahan, Paul Brown
Filmed: California – March 10, 2009

The music video for “Dead Memories” was directed by P. R. Brown. On September 30, 2008 the band’s record label Roadrunner Records released a 15 second teaser video on YouTube which featured vocalist Corey Taylor in what appears to be a grave in torrential rain. The video premiered on MTV’s Headbangers Ball on October 25, 2008 as part of the Headbangers Ball 20th anniversary special programming. The treatment for the music video was percussionist Shawn Crahan’s idea, Crahan calls the music video a “short film” and admits that it was a “very” expensive video. Crahan’s initial idea was to have several rooms, he introduced the idea to vocalist Corey Taylor who decided what each room would be.

Clown about Dead Memories:
I’ve been doing directing and writing treatments and working with most of our videos from the beginning. I’ve always been the guy. It’s not that I wanted to be a director or write scripts or treatments. It’s just that I’m not interested in other people’s ideas. I’m not at that time of my career where I’m worrying about breaking crazy artists to come in and mold us as a sculpture for them to further their art. I’ve always been the guy who’s had to force my opinion, and that’s how you get to co-direct. This video, I’m co-directing with Paul Brown, and he decided to finally be the guy after 12 years to look me in the eye and say, “You’re gonna co-direct the video. You’re gonna do filming because you’re great at it.”

And the treatment is my idea. And it was a very serious time for me because I felt that Slipknot had to move in a different way than what we’ve been doing. I just took a good look at “Dead Memories,” and it’s a really personal song for Corey, so I got together with him and told him my idea of having all these rooms in the video. I had him pick what each room would be, and basically, Paul Brown mentored over me and forced me into this.

For me, doing this is huge. I can almost smell and taste what I see and little things, little edits make me weep. So it’s an honor to be able to co-direct a video this and I don’t think people have seen anything like this from us. It’s out there, man. It’s really out there because it’s time. I don’t want to waste time anymore on people’s fundamental ideas on what they think Slipknot is. We’ve given enough. We’ve given everybody a little bit of what they’ve needed to market us, sell us, present us. We’ve done that because we want to impact the entire world.

And this is a very expensive video. It’s actually a short film, and most people thought we were going to bite off way too much, and we did, but that’s the way we like it. And the sole purpose of this short film was to be an experiment to help Corey finalize “Dead Memories.” I took it that deep. He thought he finalized ideas by laying lyrics down to a musical score. Well, guess what? I’m gonna dig it all back up and force you into eight categories of this insanity in your mind. And it’s art, so who knows what it means? Who cares what it means? Just let it mean what it means to you.

Dead Memories

Released: October 25 2008
Album: All Hope Is Gone
Director: M. Shawn Crahan, Paul Brown
Filmed: Deas Moines, September 2008

The music video for “Psychosocial” was shot at Sound Farm studios in Jamaica, Iowa on June 30, 2008. The shoot was delayed due to an unrelated head injury sustained by turntablist Sid Wilson before the shoot, who was subsequently hospitalized.On July 18, 2008 the video premiered on MTV’s FNMTV show, hosted by Pete Wentz. The video, which was directed by Paul Brown, was shot using high-end cameras which shoot 1,000 frames per second and are contrasted with traditional 35 mm hand crank camera equipment. Percussionist Shawn Crahan explains; “we have the most extreme on both ends, with nothing in the middle. That’s what the video is, and nobody does that. There’s an art form behind it.”
During an interview with Kerrang!, guitarist James Root revealed that the video features the burning of the purgatory masks adorned by the band members in the splash teaser photos shown on Slipknot’s website, reportedly because the masks represent the band’s ego.
The are two versions of the video. One uses the album version of the song, whilst the other uses a much shorter version of the song; excluding the “Limit of the Dead!” lines. This song was nominated to best rock video at the VMA´s 2008.

Psychosocial

Released: July 2008
Album: All Hope Is Gone
Director: M. Shawn Crahan, Paul Brown
Filmed: Jamainca, IA on June 30th 2008

The Music Video displays the band performing the song live, with clips of their fans being excited, with much similarity to the “The Nameless” music video.
This Video is a mix of different clips from Voliminal: Inside the Nine. You can see the band performing live and some clips of Slipknot backstage, preparing for the show.

The Blister Exists

Released: January 2007
Album: Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
Director: M. Shawn Crahan

The Music Video displays the band performing the song live, with clips of their fans being excited. Some of the footage was used in Voliminal: Inside The Nine. During the soft part of the song in the video, Corey Taylor curls his lips inward to make the mouth of his mask look more like an actual mouth.

This technique is used often by Taylor during other live performances. This video shows us how sick and fucking insane are the maggots in South America (Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Brazil), in the States and in Europe.
This video is Dedicated to all the maggots everywhere

The Nameless

Released: 2005
Album: Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
Director: M. Shawn Crahan

The video for “Before I Forget” shows Slipknot performing the song unmasked and in casual apparel, but when their faces were shown, the camera was zoomed in on a single part, such as the mouth or eyes. Their masks can be seen hanging next to them and swaying around. The video focused on the instruments of the members more often than it did their faces.
“Before I Forget” actually evolved from a much earlier Slipknot song, “Carve”. By the way, Slipknot won a 2006 Grammy Award in the category of “Best Metal Performance” for “Before I Forget.”

Before I Forget

Released: 2005
Album: Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
Director: Tony Petrossian, M. Shawn Crahan
Filmed: Los Angeles, CA on April 7th 2005

Vermilion Pt.2 is the continuation of Vermilion. In this song we can hear Acoustic Guitars, Violins and of course Corey Taylors outstanding vocals. The melody and the overriding theme run through both versions, making them integral pieces to the same complex puzzle.
The Vermilion Pt. 2 video shows the same girl, but this time in a field peacefully sleeping. The wind begins to lift her and sway her back and forth. Eventually, the viewer realizes the girl is dead; however, she appears to be in a more peaceful state than in the first music video.

“The differences (between the two tracks) are subtle — ‘Vermilion Pt. 1′ is about the enrapturing, the buildup, the anticipation and the neurosis,” says Taylor. “‘Part 2′ is the aftermath, the pieces that have to be picked up later, and maybe the guilt of having lived through it.”

Vermilion, Pt. 2

Released: 2004
Album: Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
Director: Mark Klasfeld, M. Shawn Crahan

The Vermilion video shows a girl living a tortured life in a crowded city. She walks around in contortions and twists as people walk by in a blur, not noticing her pain at all. The only time she gets noticed is when she wears a Maggot Mask (a mask specially designed for fans of the band to wear) which makes the members of the band appear and dance with the girl. On the first time she puts on the mask, the band members appear in front of her and they put on a white mask which enables their true faces to be seen for a couple of seconds. Then the band members dance with her. A caterpillar is also seen growing in the video and at the end seen it turns into a butterfly. The video ends with the girl screaming and tearing her hair out in utter anguish.
The woman in the videos for Vermilion Pt. 1 & 2 has been rumoured to be a partner of one of the band members or in some way related to them. She is actually an actress, Janna Bossier in Los Angeles.

Vermilion

Released: 2004
Album: Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
Director: Tony Petrossian, M. Shawn Crahan
Filmed: August 2004 in Los Angeles, CA

The music video was shot six miles outside Des Moines, Slipknot’s home town. The video starts with a large crowd of teenagers and adults running towards the abandoned farm house where Slipknot is performing the song. Once the crowd gets inside they break windows, tear down walls, lift some of the Slipknot members and dance. Near the end of the song the crowd stops causing chaos when Corey puts out his hand and makes them calm down. Then the scene cuts and an even larger crowd is situated outside watching the performance. Once the chorus begins again the crowd immediately causes more carnage and the song ends suddenly.

The production of this video has cost about $300,000 – $500,000. Slipknot fans traveled from as far off as the Ukraine and Great Britain to attend the filming of the group’s new video, which took place Saturday (March 27) in West Des Moines. 500 fans were selected to take part in the shoot, which saw the group performing inside a rented house as it was being “invaded” by “maggots.”

Joey Jordison: “We wanted to come back and just do a video here with our friends in Iowa and make it more real and this has been a blast so far, we’re just getting started.”

Corey Taylor: “It’s basically gonna looked cramped and wet, a lot of stink and ugly, it rules basically what this band is all about.”

The music video is set in a “maggot’s”, or hardcore Slipknot fan’s house. The individual said that Slipknot could use his house for a video. Slipknot then commenced to invite anyone who wanted to come to the music video shoot. The result of rabid fans and Slipknot’s energy was the inevitable destruction of the house. Slipknot were rumored to be sued for the damage they caused at the gentleman’s house. Corey also said that he had no clue that there was a basketball hoop in the drive-way until it came crashing through the window.

Duality

Released: 2004
Album: Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
Director: Tony Petrossian, M. Shawn Crahan
Filmed: March 27th 2004 in Des Moines, IA

The video for “My Plague”, the New Abuse Mix has live footage that was shot on February 16th, 2002 at the London Arena. The live footage can be also seen in the Disasterpieces DVD. All other footage comes from the Resident Evil movie.

My Plague

Released: 2002
Album: Iowa
Director: Matthew Amos, Simon Hilton

The music video for the song shows Slipknot performing the song in a rainy forest (probably somewhere in Iowa) with images of a boy cutting up a goat in a market and having thoughts of revenge on two bullies.

Left Behind

Released: 2001
Album: Iowa
Director: David Meyers

The Left Behind – Directors Cut video in comparsion with the “Original Video” has scenes that were censored due to some ‘Explicit’ content.
One of the differences is the scene where the boy is in the shelter.

Left Behind – Directors Cut

Released: 2001
Album: Iowa
Director: David Meyers

Spit It Out is the first single released by metal band Slipknot off their eponymous album. Their second single Wait and Bleed is thought by many fans to be their first single, but it was actually Spit It Out. The music video for “Spit It Out” is a parody of the movie The Shining.
Some footage was taken from their live performance at Ozzfest ’99.

Spit It Out

Released: 1999
Album: Slipknot
Director: Hans Hammers Jr

Surfacing – Live. As taken directly from the ‘Welcome To Our Neighborhood’.

Surfacing

Released: 1999
Album: Slipknot

This is the original live version of Wait and Bleed. There are two music videos for “Wait and Bleed”. One was a live performance on Welcome To Our Neighborhood; the other was done in claymation.

Wait and Bleed

Released: 1999
Album: Slipknot
Director: Marc Smerling

This is the Claymation version of Wait and Bleed. This video can be found on the “Disasterpieces” DVD.

Wait and Bleed (Clay Version)

Released: 1999
Album: Slipknot
Director: Atticus