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.
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I LOVE SLIPKNOT
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I LOVE YOU Guys your the best xxxxxxx
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Slipknot are a REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALY CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPY band. They do NOT know the meaning of music. LINKIN PARK is the BEST band on the PLANET. I’m NOT kidding.
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Kavi Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 10:18 am
@LP,
Linkin Park is for girls and g@ys! With their shitty remixes of their albums and Bennington screaming like something entering in his Anu$!
Dude, am still asking myself why Michael Bay used Linkin Park Music as Score for ROTF!!!
LP is SICK!!
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Kurt Avish Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Lol…thanks you said it for me. Linkin Park music is not bad but mostly for the Starting Hard Rock listeners
and the girls yea. And come on when someone says that Slipknot s*cks infront of Linkin Park…then there is something wrong with the person lol.
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METALLICA! The world’s best heavy Metal group! Google it.
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slipknot rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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eric r shion Reply:
August 6th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
@yogesh, i just have 1word 4 all you surfacing
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Mna grup kom nickelback, bullet pou mo valentine, manson, LP (ene beta ti enan ene sac lin ecire LP ek lin met SATAN akoT) ki mentioner dan sa post la mo truve zot mari kk…
Mo man grup mo truve mari nice Mastodon, Dream theater, Metallica, Maiden, led zepplin, Machine Head, Nirvana, Porcupine tree…
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METALLICA . Period
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rockkkkkkkkkkkkkk
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agung Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 8:57 am
@coffelemon_03@yahoo.co.id, yeahh
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It’s amazing how Slipknot and the metal genre in particular still manage to polarize attention.
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i love psycho social
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One thing I have noticed is a majority of SK fans are scene kids or started out as such. The same was for me that’s why I can say that lol. Don’t get me wrong I like SK a lot. Especially their new album since they finally got away from the annoying bitchy lyrics. The music in their old albums was catchy but the lyrics were just gawd-awful. They’ve grown more technical and melodic now which most would condemn and ridicule but I think it shows how much the band has grown. Soooo I guess I’m essentially saying Old SK Albums=Trend Music, New SK=Some Maturity Musically
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Kurt Avish Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Being a Slipknot, I must say I agree on this one. Its true, then it comes to the lyrics, their previous one was a bit like those written by some teens out of frustration and lack of maturity. The ones in All Hope Is Gone on the other hand is pleasant to read.
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i agree with you bro
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slipknot a heavy metal band?? LMAO!! Come on ppl, this is just mere hard rock!
Listen to real metal:
Dark Tranquillity
Insomnium
Children of Bodom
Meshuggah
Dimmu Borgir
In Flames
Trivium
Opeth
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Stop giving this disgrace(stupid masks and idiot-like costumes) the status of being within the ‘heavy metal’ genre.
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me Reply:
August 7th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
@Nadeem, hi nadeem..i would like to tell u that i fink that youve just started listening to metal music… i’ve been listening to slipknot for more than 10 years now.. let me tell u that slipknot cannot be defined in any genre.. thats the beauty of their music and the way their music has evolved from mfkr to ahig.. so i think youre just simply a new kid in the metal business.. so you need not judge but try to get mature in the metal world.. no hard feelings..p.s i’ve listened to all the bands youve listed.. they are good too excluding in flames and trivium…
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Nadeem Reply:
August 7th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
@me, well ur comment made me LMAO more than this blog post itself! A typical comment from a very ignorant person trying to defend with sarcasm such a talentless band which i assume you like much. But no matter what you say or think, what’s true remains true. Along with marilyn manson, they are the biggest shame the metal & rock scene has ever witnessed. They got more haterz than people who actually like them.
Oh so i should be getting mature? lol, 10 years listening to crap, i really think you are the one who should be getting out of this ‘crap box’ shitknot.
Metal has never been about putting some stupid masks and acting like fcukin’ monkeys live. A complete disgrace.
Lastly, if am a kid then you’re not even a BABY! (:
.:. Fcuk mainstream, support the underground .:.
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i love SLIPKNOT
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lo amoooooooooooooooooooo
es lo mejor del rock star…!!!!!!!!
son lo mejor del momento
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Excellent blog/post! It’s amazing to me that I still have time to read as I keep finding interesting things to read! Very cool design.
Thanks and appreciate the contribution. Slipknot rule!
.-= Guitar Wizard´s last blog ..The Legendary Guitar Solo =-.
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Really nice post here, I also like this band and listen to their albums. Hope they will have concert in our place to watch them. For more info visit us to watch online videos, thanks!
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Metal is fun when you are young, tapping into the world of the unknown, but destroys you when you are old. Don’t forget that constantly listening to destructive lyrics for more than 10years will definitely affect your psyche. Don’t tell me you are Mr. Strong who will resist it all – you also have a subconscience that collects the rubish releases by those finely welded metal tracks. Also look for the druid beats used in metal, quite evil practices. By the way, I’m a die hard metal fan, but i can tell you, its not really music, its just noise – its fun when you are young, and when you get older its only an addiction
Noise in, noise out: Thus I scream.
Morbid Angel: God of EMPTINESS!
Roaaaar, me, the Animal.
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me Reply:
August 7th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
@Animal, i dont agree with you.. once a TRUE metal fan ALWAYS a true metal fan..
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…listen for more 10 years to Cannibal Corpse, read the lyrics while listening, get the picture ? Those guys must be sick :p
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Great post!
@sjdvda
Sennheiser are great. If they happen to get “eaten”, try Shure: this is the shit!
About the “SOB” (deklar mari), there is one ‘litmus test’: Ask them about a real, uncompromising band like Slayer. No-one so far has ever lived up to that one. See, you’ll always run into the first-time-enthusiast-of-the-genre, one-song fan who thinks he knows all after listening to one song of a band, but with the eagerness that is inversely proportional to time from which he made his discovery. This kind of follower will never survive the Slayer test: it’s not a fad band (like many many that I’ll prefer not naming here to avert an unnecessary “troo”/fake debate about our common musical interest here), it cannot be listened to while doing mundane things, it requires your own time, patience and voluntary immersion. Just like Nadeem says, other “serious” bands are in fact making a music that pleases them first, and if you are open to the way they do things, then you’ll be gifted with that special key to penetrate and enjoy their musical “soundscape”: “mellow”, “groovy”, “aggressive”, “technical”, “moody”, “heavy”, storyline, concept, “glacial”, “monolithic”, “monumental”, “primal” and “prehistoric” whatever you can find will be for your thorough enjoyment and personal experience. The one-song fan will never be able to tell the nuances between these. Ask them about the common point between Voivod, Flotsam&Jetsam, and Metallica for instance… Or, in your case: L.A. Gunns and Guns’N'Roses. Or the difference between Sunno))), My Dying Bride, and Cathedral.
@Animal
Eh, we know it’s just fiction and entertainment. If you don’t then, it’s not our/my/your fault. We metalheads enjoy quality, like gourmets, not just mass music like junk/fast food or tissue paper: listen once and throw away.
You are right, but only partly. I’m a metal fan for more than 20 years now, and am still keenly following my favourite bands of the time. Some have split, most have survived the “grunge” wave. But their lyrics have always inspired me. Like this guy says very well in the last paragraph of his review of a classic album:http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/m/metallica-master.shtml
As for Cannibal Corpse, they are still receiving praise (“unlike bands half their age, songwriting takes precedence over pure brutality, the end result being the kind of confident work that only master craftsmen could pull off”)and being shortlisted in the best albums categories (2009):
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/116964-the-best-metal-albums-of-2009/
If I follow your logic about the raw/graphic nature of their lyrics, those who watched (and enjoyed) the “Saw” series should be closely followed, straight-jacketed and confined in some mental asylum?
Example: who still “enjoys” Right Said Fred? Or New Kids on the Block? MC Hammer? or Jordy? Without triggering embarrassed cringing / laughter?
Just peruse this:
“The fact that Fraktur [font] is used to typographically mark important, decisive, and binding moments—such as graduation or marriage—is not incompatible with its use
as a symbol of power. The brewery giants’ gothic logos refer to their craftsmanship, tradition, and origin, to a mode of production pretending to precede organized
industry, whose true quality can only be appreciated by connoisseurs. Fraktur’s connotation of connoisseurship also strikes a note with metal fans.”
The American Roberto Martinelli, editor in chief of the online magazine Maelstrom, writes about unintelligible black metal logos:
‘A logo plays a huge part in the image of a company or product. This is also certainly the case with bands…. In black metal particularly, there is a certain revered aesthetic, like spikiness, illegibility, intricacy; to those things are added that intangible element that tells the connoisseur “this is a cult album that is worth
your time.”
Rest assured Animal, wine/whisky drinkers are not all heavy substance abusers, nor are those who enjoy horror films / Dexter-type serials potential serial-killers. This type of music has so many deeply divided genres and sub-genres that everyone finds his cup of tea, and IMHO, all find their cathartic expression, but they all know the bounds of fiction and reality. We don’t stop at skin-deep preconceptions, we dive in deep first.
Ayo, mo’nn faire enn mari long lecture, mo’nn blier demann toi: did you pass the Slayer test?
Cheers!
Merci ISLANDCRISIS!!
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R.I.P paul gray
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SLIPKNOT KICKS ALL THE OTHER BANDS IN THE WORLDS ASS SLIPKNOT ROCKZ
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