anonymous February 11th, 2006 05:29PM  
The Heretic Anthem is about how he is different and nobody should care. 555 meaning normal people are what he thinks we are. and if so he is 666, the devil, someone different.

SLIPKNOT March 22nd, 2006 05:52PM  
It talking about how things are to normal that 555 meaning man and 666 being beast that if it must he is the beast to escape the normal.... I think its on an album cover

metabolic_666 June 3rd, 2006 08:29AM  
Once again I have to explain to everyone the heretic anthem does not make slipknot satanic. What the song is for is a big fuck you to the music industry and a ll their bullshit they pull.

anonymous June 18th, 2006 12:18AM  
Well, when Slipknot was performing in Brasil he told us that it was about the agents that wouldnt sign the band and never gave them the shot. They put them down and told them they would never make it. That they never had what it took to make it in the business

anonymous August 1st, 2006 11:14AM  
^exactly....And if you don't belive it you can go to the site where that was told: http://www.slipknot-metal.com/
then go to music and song meanings...Has them all

anonymous August 23rd, 2006 04:15PM  
Yeah, so far none of you sound right to me. No offense. But the song is totally about how corey is a complete individual, and you could never become him at all. The 555 represents people, 666 satan, and 777 (even though it's never mentioned in the song) is god. I got a majority of my translation directly from authorized slipknot fansites, but I added my own ideas to it.

anonymous September 21st, 2006 08:15PM  
666 is not the number of satan but nero caesar one of the worst people ever to live and is the number of the antichrist.

toolscott September 28th, 2006 03:20AM  
666 is in the fucking bible dude. It is the mark of the beast in revelations.

anonymous October 5th, 2006 07:35AM  
"I want to take you back seven years to the eden festival at the gameworks right down here. There was about a hundred fucking people there... It was the first time we really ever played for anyone outside of where we lived, and you guys went off harder with a hundred people than I've ever seen a lot of fucking people go off before. And we scared the fuck out of so many fucking record label assholes that night. So because of fucking those people like that, those fucking plastic, record-label, pussy-ass bitch motherfuckers, we wrote this next fucking song. You know it, join me, because if you 555, then i'm..."
-corey taylor, the heretic anthem from 9.0 live

anonymous October 16th, 2006 07:24PM  
He doesn't know what he's talking about. The people who say the song is about satan are stupid retards. The song is about how corey denied the music industry when they asked him to make a radio friendly song.

xxpansyxloverxx November 22nd, 2006 01:50PM  
Every one that thinks this is relating to satin is a flippin tard. Its all about the music ind. every one that likes slipknot should know that.

Posers

aim=xomgxmelissaxduh

anonymous May 14th, 2007 01:38AM  
Um I'm sticking with the music industry theory. This might be a stretch but 555 is the area code the film industry uses for all phone numbers in a movie or television show. since the music industry and film industry are basically one and the same it seems like a reference to them. 666 is the "mark of the beast" in Revelation but was in actuality considered to be man's number. stupid Evangelical interpretations have made it into Satan's number. the whole thing about putting the beast's number on people in Revelation is about declaring man above or equal to God.

anonymous July 2nd, 2007 07:09AM  
The Heretic Anthem is about standing you're ground and becoming the opposite of what people want you to be. It's about all those pussy ass bitch mother fuckers that wrote this band off.

It is also about all those ignorant and stupid motherfucker's that judge SLIPKNOT like they know them. It's about the stupid motherfucker's that think SLIPKNOT are Santanists and Devil music, as in the line "If you're 555 then I'm 666". I mean, you can't judge a band because the way it sounds, looks or what they say because you don't know them in the first place.

To the followers... How can you be so completely sure that they're Santanists or whatever? The line "EVERYBODY IS SO COMPLETELY SURE OF WHAT WE ARE" explains it all. To me, it's about people like us standing our ground against all those stupid and ignorant motherfuckers that judge us like they fuckin' know everything and if you're a maggot you're doin' the right thing by staying true to yourself and not listening to that POP and RAP bullshit.

xp79 August 28th, 2007 05:39PM  
My Interpretation Is that this song has two meanings, one being of the anger showed to Fred durst Who made an insult to Slipknot, Also the song is about Holy wood 555 being hol On a Cell phone Meaning that People who follow holywood are the true heretics and slipknot is a misunderstood opinion.

anonymous November 18th, 2007 12:14AM  
The Heretic Anthem is about Corey standing his ground of becoming the exact opposite of what people want him to be, to prove a point. The point of not selling out, not following people, not taking orders from people. With lyrics describing man as 555, Satan as 666, and God as 777, the theme of hate once again prevails. It is also a large 'Fuck You' to the music industry and bands that have sold out. It also states that now, Corey is teaching the young of our race (teenagers) which refers to showing them the truth of life. That it's not all pink and happy, that it can be a brutal and scary place at times.

anonymous December 11th, 2007 06:08PM  
Corey is getting at the music industry for writing Slipknot of, for when he says,"I'm a pop star threat," it's him getting back at the music industry for promoting shitty pop bands and writing Slipknot off.

Also when he says,"Everybody's so completely sure of what we are" he's showing how everyone thinks they know who Slipknot are, and that they are actually a very misunderstood band. When he says,"But face to face, they haven't got a thing to say" its showing how people will bitch and badmouth Slipknot, but when they come face to face, they're fucking pussies. Also referring to when in 9.0 he calls them all (pussy)ass(bitch) motherfuckers

anonymous January 10th, 2008 10:04PM  
I think this guy is on to something. Almost like the three Wise men regret what Christianity has become. Like an apology for stating the whole thing. "They just judge each other and try to impress." I think is a critique of the church. I believe that James loves Jesus, but hated what has happened to the "religion" of Christianity. And so do I.

anonymous April 6th, 2008 12:52AM  
I think Corey's trying to express our intense need for individualism, all we do is follow, in government and the things we are taught in life,its saying he won't conform to every one else's beliefs and he won't give up. Sure 666 is the symbol of the devil,in modern translation but look up the origins it was also 616 and 665, and yes it has been related to nero but that is undetermined for sure. I think it means he's pissed at the current state of things, and people need to question whether or not what they think is right.

anonymous June 2nd, 2008 09:14AM  
This song is about how "Slipknot Haters" kept accusing them of being satanists. And they are basically saying, if you're not a satanist then I am!

So yeah they are saying I don't wanna be like you, I wanna be the opposite to you.

anonymous July 27th, 2008 09:06PM  
HERE:

9.0 live he says it's against record companies. He says if 555 is artists, like slipknot, 666 is the satanic record companies.