AlbumE · 2014
.5: The Gray Chapter
by Slipknot
.5: The Gray Chapter is a 2014 alternative metal album by Slipknot. It runs 14 tracks across 64 minutes on Roadrunner Records. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.2/5 from 153 ratings.

Alternative Metal · Nu Metal · Groove Metal
#7 in Best albums of 2014 · #13 in Best alternative metal albums
Your rating
- 4.2 /5
- 153 ratings
- 78 /100
- 9 critics
- 14
- Tracks
- 64 min
- Runtime
- 130 bpm
- Tempo
- B minor
- Key
Ratings
153 ratings · avg 4.2
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Reviews
1 review
- 3.0
.5: The Gray Chapter processes Paul Gray's death the only way Slipknot knows — at full volume: "Skeptic"'s tribute fury, "Goodbye"'s slow procession, "The Devil in I" as radio-ready grief. The first album without their bassist-founder is overlong but genuinely felt. Mourning as percussion, which for this band is sincerity.
14 people have played it start to finish
Critics
9 publications
- Kerrang!5/5
- Revolver4.5/5
- Blabbermouth.net8.5/10
- The Guardian4/5
- Alternative Press4/5
- AllMusic4/5
- Classic Rock7/10
- Exclaim!7/10
- Rolling Stone2.5/5
- Metacriticaggregate77/100
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.5: The Gray Chapter album cover

The .5: The Gray Chapter cover was photographed by M. Shawn Crahan and art-directed by M. Shawn Crahan.
- Photography
- M. Shawn Crahan
- Art direction
- M. Shawn Crahan
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Tracklist
14 tracks · 64 min
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Also released as
Every pressing below shares this page's rating and reviews — they are the same record.
.5: The Gray Chapter (Special Edition)Reissue · 2014 · 16 tracks
- 1XIX
- 2Sarcastrophe
- 3AOV
- 4The Devil in I
- 5Killpop
- 6Skeptic
- 7Lech
- 8Goodbye
- 9Nomadic
- 10The One That Kills the Least
- 11Custer
- 12Be Prepared for Hell
- 13The Negative One
- 14If Rain Is What You Want
- 15Override
- 16The Burden
Videos
2 videos
Ranked by listeners
top 5 · 7 rated tracks
According to Riffiter listeners, the best track on .5: The Gray Chapter is The One That Kills the Least — rated 4.2/5 by 16 listeners.
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About
.5: The Gray Chapter is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot. Released in Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands on October 17, 2014, the UK on October 20, 2014 and in North America on October 21, 2014 by Roadrunner Records. It was the first studio album by the band in six years and the first not to feature original founding members bassist Paul Gray and drummer Joey Jordison due to the death of Gray in 2010 (the title of the album being a reference to his surname), and Jordison being fired from the band in late 2013, as well as the only Slipknot album to feature original guitarist Donnie Steele on bass, although the tracks he played on are unknown, and the first Slipknot album to have Alessandro Venturella on bass and Jay Weinberg on drums. The album includes six singles and has received commercial success and acclaiming reviews. A standard and deluxe edition of the album was released. It is also the band's final studio album to feature their longtime percussionist Chris Fehn before his dismissal from the band due to a lawsuit in March 2019.
In brief
- Is .5: The Gray Chapter good?
- Riffiter listeners rate .5: The Gray Chapter 4.2/5 from 153 ratings.
- What is the highest-rated track on .5: The Gray Chapter?
- The One That Kills the Least, rated 4.2/5 by 16 listeners on Riffiter.
- When was .5: The Gray Chapter released?
- .5: The Gray Chapter was released in 2014 on Roadrunner Records.
- How many tracks are on .5: The Gray Chapter?
- .5: The Gray Chapter has 14 tracks, with a runtime of 64 minutes.
- What genre is .5: The Gray Chapter?
- .5: The Gray Chapter is catalogued under Alternative Metal, Nu Metal, Groove Metal.
- What BPM is .5: The Gray Chapter?
- .5: The Gray Chapter runs at a median tempo of 130 BPM across its tracks, most often in B minor, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to .5: The Gray Chapter?
- Listeners of .5: The Gray Chapter also rate Toxicity by System of a Down, Korn by Korn, Immortalized by Disturbed.
- Who produced .5: The Gray Chapter?
- Slipknot produced 1 of the 14 tracks on .5: The Gray Chapter.
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