Slipknot rocks \m/ anyone else like them?

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Well the Question is in the title.

Does anyone else like them?
 
Oh.....Right,i never knew that there was a thread before.
 
It's basically metal for kids, they do have a few good tracks and the drummer is really ****ing good but if I had a choice there would be a zillion bands higher up the list that I would rather listen too.
 
I'm gonna be honest, I never expected this thread to appear again lol.
 
Well,i like 'em.

I'm also thinking about getting the 10th Anniversary of the Original album.
 
Because i like them!!

You like some other band and i don't say anything about your music.
 
Let me give you a hint, this is NOT the place, to post a topic on how much you like Slipknot, because take it from me, all you will get is a typhoon of shit thrown at you.

Welcome to Half-Life2.net! :D
 
Metal died sometime in the 90's when every band decided they wanted to be the next Slayer or Metallica, paving the way towards the abomination called Nu Metal.

(exceptions: Dream Theater, Coheed and Cambria, etc)
 
Noodle said:
Metal died sometime in the 90's when every band decided they wanted to be the next Slayer or Metallica.
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hahahahaha.


no seriously what

slayer and metallica got boring to me right from the first time i heard them, and i liked them at some point when i was younger, but i can still admit it's dull from the get go.
 
TheAntipop said:
hahahahaha.


no seriously what

slayer and metallica got boring to me right from the first time i heard them, and i liked them at some point when i was younger, but i can still admit it's dull from the get go.
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I'm not saying I like them a lot, but what they did was relatively new and not complete shit. So many bands afterward decided they wanted to be shit, and not new.
 
Eh, there were hundreds of kickass metal bands in the 80's. Check wiki or something.

I don't like Slipknot, but they have the best T-Shirt art of all.
 
I'm just saying those were the ones that later bands tried to be like. You don't see many Motley Crue apprentices walking around these days... too bad.
 
Noodle said:
I'm not saying I like them a lot, but what they did was relatively new and not complete shit. So many bands afterward decided they wanted to be shit, and not new.
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well the way i see it, that's not true at all. a bunch of really mediocre bands following the thrash aesthetic did nothing new, much like anyone latching on to a specific genre will do, but metal as a whole has never ceased to be organic in it's growth. in this day i'm finding it hard NOT to find anything unoriginal or new because i'm finding unique metal every day, it's just whether or not you're ready to open yourself up to the world outside of the generic norm that bands like dream theater, slayer and metallica pride themselves amongst and take a listen to something a bit different.

metal has never been more unique than it has in the last ten years, in my eyes.
 
Noodle said:
Metal died sometime in the 90's when every band decided they wanted to be the next Slayer or Metallica, paving the way towards the abomination called Nu Metal.

(exceptions: Dream Theater, Coheed and Cambria, etc)
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Manowar and 3 Inches of Blood would like a word with you.
 
well i can see that discussion going far
 
Slipknot? Far from my least favourite band out there, but i wouldnt really listen to them all the time.

However, if this helps you dig deeper into the metal genre, then by all means.
 
zombieturtle01 said:
Still have yet to find Metal I enjoy :/
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Same. Metal sucks. Except for one song by Genitorturers called Lecher Bitch. But thats probably only because I first heard it in VTM: Bloodlines, which would have made me like any song associated with it.
 
metal is awesome, just wildly depicted as a knuckledragging meatheaded genre because of it's first and forerunners. dig a little deeper and there's whole worlds of fantastic hidden away, stuff that is often embarrassed to be labelled as metal in general because of how unique it is, but still encompassed under the same umbrella for it's characteristics regardless of how much they're pushing the envelope.
 
knut said:
metal is awesome, just wildly depicted as a knuckledragging meatheaded genre because of it's first and forerunners. dig a little deeper and there's whole worlds of fantastic hidden away, stuff that is often embarrassed to be labelled as metal in general because of how unique it is, but still encompassed under the same umbrella for it's characteristics regardless of how much they're pushing the envelope.
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Anything 'embarrassed' to be labelled as metal should **** right off tbh. A band that's self consciously preoccupied with what particular genre they fit into are either being pretentious about their own 'uniqueness', or simply pandering to a different kind of knuckledragging meathead: one more worried about appearing fashionable than about the quality of music they're listening to.

There's plenty of unashamed, slightly old fashioned, metal-to-the-bone type bands worth talking about, without needing to tipp-ex out the word 'metal' and fixate upon outliers to the genre. A band can innovate without pushing the envelope; whether you're within the framework of well-established genre parameters or whether you're reinventing the wheel, musical quality comes as much from the message as it does from the medium.

Personally I'm embarrassed by hair metal bands of the 80's, too, but it's been a long time since that music has been anything other than a fading minority fringe of metal. Unless a band is embarrassed by a huge cross section of metal - in which case it begs the question of 'why do you feel the impulse to play music which most of your listeners would describe in terms you don't like?' - then there is no need to disown the genre label. In any case metal doesn't need to apologise or make excuses for being loud, unfashionable, inaccessible and brutish; it is what it is and people who don't like it can play somewhere else. I don't lurk around hiphop threads crying into a handkerchief and asking 'but why don't I like it??'...

Of course, if you suspect that some metal exists which you might like then by all means keep searching, but there's a point where some people's 'it all sucks, PROVE THAT IT DOESN'T' type statements just become white noise.

EDIT: Only just checked the thread title - a Slipknot thread?!? Nice waste of effort, Laiv...
 
I'd rather staple my tongue to the ground with a croquet hoop whilst having a pine cone shoved up my ass than listen to the roaring drones of Slipknot.
 
knut said:
metal is awesome, just wildly depicted as a knuckledragging meatheaded genre because of it's first and forerunners. dig a little deeper and there's whole worlds of fantastic hidden away, stuff that is often embarrassed to be labelled as metal in general because of how unique it is, but still encompassed under the same umbrella for it's characteristics regardless of how much they're pushing the envelope.
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If you have any suggestions, I am open.
 
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