"Psychosocial" is a song by American heavy metal band Slipknot.

[4][5] Slipknot performed "Psychosocial" live for the first time on July 9, 2008, at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, Washington.

– Shawn Crahan, The Pulse of Radio[9]"This is another me-and-Paul [Gray, bassist] creation.

– Shawn Crahan[10]Rolling Stone praised the song, saying it "slows down the tempo to bludgeon with a steady, pounding groove instead of all-out thrash in a manner reminiscent of the band's more slow-burning but still malicious second album, Iowa."

They explained, "That track is capped off with a time-signature shattering guitar/drum breakdown that will leave the best air-instrumentalists stumped".

[15] The music video for "Psychosocial" was shot at Sound Farm studios in Jamaica, Iowa on June 30, 2008.

[17] On July 18, 2008, the video premiered on MTV's FNMTV show,[18] hosted by Pete Wentz.

"[16] During an interview with Kerrang!, guitarist Jim Root revealed that the video features the burning of the purgatory masks adorned by the band members in the splash teaser photos shown on Slipknot's website, reportedly because the masks represent the band's ego.