“Psychosocial” is a song by American heavy metal band Slipknot. Released as the second single from the band’s fourth studio album, All Hope Is Gone (2008). The song entered airplay on June 26, 2008 and was originally planned for release as a digital single on July 1 but was delayed and released on July 8.[3][4] Slipknot performed “Psychosocial” live for the first time on July 9, 2008, at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, Washington.[5] In 2008, the song was featured on the soundtrack to Marvel‘s Punisher: War Zone.[6] The song was also nominated for ‘Best Metal Performance‘ for the 51st Grammy Awards,[7] but lost to Metallica‘s “My Apocalypse“, and was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single.[8]
“Psychosocial”, along with two other Slipknot songs, “Duality” and “Sulfur,” was released as downloadable content for Rock Band and Rock Band 2 on December 8, 2009.[9] It is also featured as a playable track in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Psychosocial (song), which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
