"My Plague" received mixed reviews from critics. Īs of June 2022, the song has 18 million views on YouTube. The "My Plague" music video was nominated for Best Video at the 2002 Kerrang! Awards alongside " Tainted Love" by Marilyn Manson, " Tribute" by Tenacious D, " In the End" by Linkin Park and " The One" by Foo Fighters. The video was featured on the "My Plague" single, as well as on the Disasterpieces album later in the year. Hilton claims that he edited the video while wearing a Slipknot mask. The live concert footage was directed by Matthew Amos and the film was directed by Paul Anderson, however Amos and editor Simon Hilton are credited as the video's directors. The music video for "My Plague" is made up of a combination of clips from Resident Evil and footage from the band's performance at London Arena on February 16, 2002, the entirety of which was later featured on the band's second video album Disasterpieces released in November. The single release was later delayed to July 8, with live recordings of " The Heretic Anthem" and "(sic)" from a show in Stockholm, Sweden on January 22 featured as B-sides. Speaking about the song's "New Abuse mix", Slipknot bassist Paul Gray explained that "On the album version there were some kind of weird vocal effects on some of the parts, and we took them out and just had Corey sing", adding that a section of the song had to be removed in order to make it suitable for radio airplay.
The track was remixed by Terry Date and features "cleaner vocals and some minor arrangement shifts", according to. In January 2002, it was announced that a reworked version of "My Plague" dubbed the "New Abuse mix" would be featured on the Resident Evil soundtrack and released as a single in February. Rolling Stone identified "My Plague" as an example of the "opposition" of "emotional negativity" and "perversely hook-heavy writing" on the album. Victoria Segal of the NME called the song "filthy noise", while E! Online's review of Iowa describes it as "surprisingly melodic". with an incredibly catchy and melodic chorus amid the sick riffs and thunderous percussion." Metal Hammer writer Luke Morton claimed the track is "one of Iowa's more accessible songs due to the clean vocals" adding, "it stills carries that threatening edge like the rest of the record". British music magazine Kerrang! highlighted it as an "immensely heavy track but. For Billboard, Eric Aiese described it as "catchy enough to pick up some spins at rock radio", noting that it features both "intimidating" and "melodic" vocals. "My Plague" is one of the more melodic songs on Iowa, while still featuring many heavier elements.
I was like, 'Is it?' If the people that nominated us had ever seen us, they would have run a mile." – Corey Taylor
People were telling me it was a big deal. The last thing we added was that chorus… We got Grammy nominations for 'My Plague' and ' Left Behind', which was pretty weird. " Sid came up with this great beat, so we tried to come up with riffs around it.
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