| "Snuff" | ||||
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| Single by Slipknot | ||||
| from the album All Hope Is Gone | ||||
| A-side | "Snuff" (radio edit) | |||
| B-side | "Snuff" (album version) | |||
| Released | September 28, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | 2008 | |||
| Studio | Sound Farm (Jamaica, Iowa) | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock[1] | |||
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| Label | Roadrunner | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Corey Taylor | |||
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| "Snuff" on YouTube | ||||
"Snuff" is a song by American heavy metal band Slipknot.[2] Released on September 28, 2009, as the fifth and final single from their fourth album, All Hope Is Gone,[3] the song charted at number two on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, their highest chart placement to date, surpassing "Dead Memories".[4]
Roadrunner Records placed "Snuff" at number six for its greatest music videos of all time.[5] The song was also nominated for Best Single at the Kerrang! Awards 2010,[6] but lost to "Liquid Confidence" by You Me at Six.[7]
It is the final single released from the band with original bassist Paul Gray before his death eight months after its release and drummer Joey Jordison before his departure in 2013 and death in 2021. During recent solo acoustic shows, Corey Taylor has performed an acoustic version of "Snuff" as a tribute to Gray.
"Snuff", "Psychosocial", "Dead Memories", "Wait and Bleed", "Sulfur", "Left Behind" and "Pulse of the Maggots" were released as downloadable songs in the Rock Band series.
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- ^ "The Ten Greatest Music Videos in Roadrunner History: #10 - #6". Roadrunner Records. April 28, 2010. Archived from the original on October 9, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
- ^ "Relentless Energy Drink Kerrang! Awards 2010". Kerrang!. June 23, 2010. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
- ^ Dan (June 29, 2010). "And the winners are..." Kerrang!. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2010.