Slipknot’s ‘Duality’ Has Hit 1 Billion Streams On Spotify

Slipknot has officially joined the 1 billion streams club on Spotify, thanks to their 2004 hit ‘Duality’.

Slipknot have officially entered Spotify’s 1 billion streams club with their 2004 hit ‘Duality’.

The track was released in May 2004 as the first single from their album Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses) and would become the band’s most recognised and celebrated track.

All nine members of the group would contribute to writing ‘Duiality’, showing off the band’s famous blend of nu metal riffs and adrenaline-pumping grooves. The track is also arguably the band’s most “commercial” and “clean”, absent of any profanity (much to the prayers of radio DJs everywhere).

Despite that, the song still does open with the line “I push my fingers into my eyes”, so I guess you can’t have everything.

The track is about the concept of having two sides to a personality, both publicly and privately. It also explores the conflict between good and evil, and how one must accept both to be whole.

But what really launched the song into iconic status is its music video. Directed by Tony Petrossian, the video was shot in a house scheduled for renovation. In the video, the band plays in many of its rooms, surrounded by swarms of fans dubbed “maggots”. The video would coalesce with the house being torn down and damaged.

Roadrunner Records reportedly would have needed to pay around $50,000 in damages to the homeowners, but it would later be regarded as one of the greatest music videos of all time. Which is not so bad, given how pricey music videos could get around the early 2000s.

The tracks ‘Psychosocial’ and ‘Before I Forget’ are a ways away, but could see them claw their second hit sometime soon. Psyhosocial sits at 764,888,499 streams as of writing, while ‘Before I Forget’ has reached 667,003,299 streams.

Billboard reported last month that the band was closing on a deal to sell its music catalogue to HarbourView Equity Partners for around $120 million. This would also include the rights to publishing, recording masters royalties, and the band’s archival catalogue; however, it would exclude future releases.