Before I Forget (song)


"Before I Forget" is a Grammy Award-winning song by American heavy metal band Slipknot. It was the third single from their 2004 album ' and was cited as AOL's top metal song of the decade.
"Before I Forget" borrows elements from a much older Slipknot song "Carve", recorded before their self-titled album. The earliest version was in 1996 with Anders Colsefni on vocals. "Carve" was for the SR Demo 1997, referred to by fans as Crowz.
"It's about standing your ground and deciding to be a good person, no matter what people say," recalled singer Corey Taylor. "' Rick Rubin was convinced the chorus wouldn't work. I told him he was crazy. Lo and behold, it's one of our biggest songs and we won a Grammy for it."
The last 18 seconds of the full-length song feature morse code in the left channel spelling "Slipknot", and Taylor muttering, "You're wasting it", reversed.
The song was featured in the video games MotorStorm, Rock Band 3, and Guitar Hero Live.

Grammy Award win

After being nominated six times, the band won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. It was the second track from the album to be nominated: "Vermilion" was nominated in 2005 for the same award.

Music video

The video for "Before I Forget" shows Slipknot performing the song unmasked and in casual clothes, as opposed to their usual coveralls. The video makes use of strategic camera techniques in which the members' faces are never totally shown, thus keeping with the band's running theme of anonymity at the time. Their masks are shown next to them as they perform. At the end of the music video, the band immediately stops playing the song as it ends and they all walk away.
The music video for "Before I Forget" was directed by Tony Petrossian and was voted as the "Most Rocking Video" by the Scuzz audience in the Top 100 Most Rocking Videos 2007. This music video also helped to garner the band its first and only Grammy Award win for "Best Metal Performance" in 2006.

Track listing

;7" vinyl part one
;7" vinyl part two
;US promo CD
;EU promo CD