Kienböck's disease a tendency of the implant to smooth the edges of the surrounding bones, thus causing painful pinched nerves when the bones slip out of place. After the lunate is removed, another procedure, "ulnar shortening" can be performed. This relieves pressure on the newly formed wrist joint of the pisiform, hamate and capitate. Depending on the surgeon, the procedure may be performed the same way as the "radial shortening" where a small section is removed, or the entire top of the ulna may be excised. At Stage 4, the lunate has completely disintegrated and the other bones in the wrist have
House of Gold & Bones – Part 2 again. He then awakens slowly. Corey Taylor said about the album: "Part 2 is much darker [than the first part], if I'm honest. Aside from it being a completely different album, it feels more like a soundtrack to a movie in a lot of ways, man. It's really thematic. There are themes from ["House of Gold & Bones – Part 1"] that reveal themselves and that come again, musically. There's actually stuff from ["House of Gold & Bones – Part 2"] that you'll hear that's on ["House of Gold & Bones – Part 1"] and you'll be like, 'Fucking hell!'"