Slipknot! One of my favourite band!

You ever heard of this band Slipknot? I guess most of you have. Slipknot is an American heavy metal band with their own unique style of music. Some people can say that their music tends to make people crazy. Well it just depends on your taste of music. Here is Slipknot!

The small story

I first heard about Slipknot about many years ago when I was in form 3. At that time Slipknot was not really famous in Mauritius and I first saw that word when two of my cousin from UK was wearing a slipknot marked pair of jeans. At first it was like “what the hell is that”. Then I found out that it was a metal band.

At the first hearing of a sample of Slipknot I felt like “What’s that noise man!” – Then when I returned home I listened to the music and appreciate it. Its something you have to listen in a non noisy environment and appreciate the tone and music itself. I became a fan of Slipknot.

Their little story

Slipknot is a heavy metal band formed in 1995 in Iowa, USA. The band consist of 9 members and the thing that makes them unique is that each member has his unique mask and style. Yea Slipknot is famous for their wonderful and yet scary-to-some masks.

Their Albums

Slipknot (1999)
Iowa (2001)
The Subliminal Verses (2004)
All Hope Is Gone (2008)

See Slipknot on Wikipedia for more details about all their albums.

The subliminal verses is still one of my favourite. My buddy Tushal is expected to bring the album All Hope Is Gone for me tomorrow. The track which I liked the most was Vermillion. It will be after a long time that I will be listening to one of my all time favourite.

Facts about Slipknots

Each member of the band has a unique number from zero to eight.
All their masks were made originally themselves (for the most part), with the help of a man that has the AIM screen name KingVigo.
The dreads on Corey’s mask is partly made out of his own hair.
Not all the members currently in the band were in the band when Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. was released. In fact, the only people that were in the band back then that are still in it today are Joey (#1), Shawn (#6), and Paul (#2). The number is the brackets indicates their specific slipknot number.

In Mauritius there is some misunderstanding about Slipknot. Many parents do not like when their kids listen to their music or watch their video clips. Well, on one side the parents can be right about it as they would not like their kids to dress up like Slipknots members and walk around or even repeat the actions they they see on TV.

Well my opinion on this one is that we can listen to their music or even watch their clips. However we must know and accept it that these guys are doing a show. Its a show like in a movie. It is not that when someone see them breaking a chair in their show, then the person should also keep breaking chairs everyday.

Some people say that their music is so full of noise pollution and that we should listen to these. I think this one depend on taste of music which is different for everyone. It does not necessarily mean that if one person does not like loud music then everyone must have the same taste and vice versa. By the way did I mentioned about the members of the band? Here they are… the mask ofcourse.

So any of you ever listened to Slipknot? What do you think of their music? Are there mask scary? lol. What is your opinion on this band and hard metal rock type of music?

Off-Topic: Did you know that there used to be a web browser called Slipknot? Have a look.