1. There are 9, 8 members.
Do you need nine members in a rock band? Well that depends, is it absolutly crucial to the experience of your band that you have a lunatic in a clown mask who hits dustbins with a baseball bat? Slipknot think so. Is it worth splitting your paycheck with a guy who wears a spikey gimp mask which looks cool but has a totally redundant job musically, just so your bro can have a job? Slipknot think so.
2. They wear masks.
3. theyve been going for like 15 years now
4. All their songs are exactly the fucking same.
I mean that in the best sense. Every slipknot song is a bunch of riffs with a minute long buildup and probably a rising sample that goes whOOOOOOOOOP for maximum shit-is-going-down ness. They dont do ballads or cross genre experiments. They might have a breakdown where the crowd gets to yell something and punch each other. I have a solid respect for bands who only do one thing.
All you fuckers playing ambient blues worship with 8 delay pedals have nothing on a band as gloriously serious about being stupid as slipknot.
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Taking the piss out of Slipknot is sooo 2003.
I ain't a huge fan but I did love the first two 'proper' albums (s/t and Iowa) and they are (or were I guess?) an absolutely phenomenal live band.
They shouldn't be thrown in with the rest of the nu-metal dross from the late 90s/early 2000s.
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Agree with that.
I listen to the first two albums occasionally and they're VERY good at what they do - making aggressive music for kids. Possibly and without intending to, providing a path way to other, "better" Heavy Metal.
I've enjoyed their live shows in the past and my kids have pestered me to go and see them (11 & 15, so that's the target market, right there). Next time...