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'Left Behind' received positive reviews from critics. Outside of the United States, the song reached number 97 on the Australian Singles Chart, number 24 on the UK Singles Chart, number 22 on the Scottish Singles Chart, and number five on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart. It spent a total of 10 weeks on the chart and peaked at number 30. 'Left Behind' debuted at number 37 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Īs of January 2022, the song has 75 million views on YouTube. Rock Sound magazine included 'Left Behind' at number two on its list of 'Slipknot's 10 Most Shocking Music Video Moments', describing it as 'the stuff of nightmares'. Metal Injection ranked it the band's ninth best video, praising it for effectively capturing 'the remorseful lyrics that focus on vocalist Corey Taylor's sorrow in leaving behind the support system he had while going through a period of homelessness'. Noisecreep ranked 'Left Behind' as the sixth best Slipknot music video of all-time in 2013. 'Left Behind' has received praise from a number of commentators for its music video.

The clean version of the video ends with the boy going into his basement whereas the director's cut version ends with a scene with the boy killing a goat off-screen cutting back to the scene at the butcher shop. Eventually those bullies throw a rock through the window of his rotting home and it rains.' The director's cut of the 'Left Behind' music video was featured on the band's second video album Disasterpieces, released in November 2002. He lives alone in a rotting hulk of a house and eats his cereal with filthy water for some reason.

Ryan Book of The Music Times outlined the narrative of the video as follows: 'A filthy kid works at a butcher shop chopping meat. The video combines footage of the band performing in a forest with a narrative centred around a young protagonist, who is described by Metal Injection's Nick Dauk as 'something of an outcast'. The music video for 'Left Behind' was directed by Dave Meyers and filmed in Los Angeles, California. 'Left Behind' was performed regularly on tour in 2002, and according to set list aggregation website Setlist.fm is the fourth most frequently-performed song from Iowa, behind 'People = Shit', 'Disasterpiece' and ' The Heretic Anthem'. The song was released as a single on October 29, featuring live versions of Slipknot tracks 'Liberate' and 'Surfacing' as B-sides. The song was subsequently played by several radio stations in the United States, forcing Roadrunner to officially release the track to radio earlier than originally intended.

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Prior to its official release, 'Left Behind' (along with 'People = Shit') was leaked online and made available for digital download in July 2001. you find out so much about them, and you rely on them so much, and then when things start happening for you, those faces disappear and they're gone,' concluding that the song is 'about leaving behind the lives that make up your past.' Promotion and release it's funny how many people you meet when you're homeless. Speaking to VH1, he reminisced that ''Left Behind' is a song about a time of my life that was really hard – I was homeless. Taylor has explained that the lyrics inspired by a period during which he was homeless, living under a bridge in his hometown of Des Moines, Iowa. Producer Ross Robinson accused the vocalist of 'trying too hard' and encouraged him to make it 'a little more guttural and put a lot more emphasis on it and just make it a smack in the mouth.' Taylor recalls that the song was originally 'much more melodic'. It was described by British magazine Kerrang! as 'considerably more melodic than the rest of the album, providing a brief moment of respite from the outright nastiness elsewhere'.

We wanted to have a melodic element in there somewhere, and 'Left Behind' had a darkness that meant it sat well with the other songs.' PS: Slipknot IS metal :) I’m not sure what type though….'Left Behind' was originally known as 'Lust Disease': 'An old song that we'd been playing around with before the first album,' recalled frontman Corey Taylor. In this case, people who have been living in a cave for the last 10-12 years. It’s just meant to be an estimate for people who have zero idea of who a band is. Vince, the classification here isn’t that big of a deal. Get this off of here, NOW! Slipknot WASNOT and ISNOT metal. This re-issue hasn’t been remastered in any way, so it’s just a rip-off. What a pointless re-issue, as the main album is exactly the same as the original release. No b-sides or rarities from Iowa period ? Fuck that crap.