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...Maybe then you wouldn’t push girls around, huh?” All in all, System were successful in both entertaining the crowd and expounding their political messages, but the fans were much more anxious to witness the mayhem that was the Slipknot stage show—the most unique and electrifying in metal today...
...traditional four or five piece band, Slipknot are a nine-man unit comprised of two guitarists, one drummer, two “custom percussionists” (who bash kegs, tin drums and each other at various points), a bassist, a DJ, a sampler and a vocalist. The result of this strange amalgamation of participants is that one moment the guitars are muted and pulsing, vocals slickly rapped over with a mild hip-hop scratching, and the next a double bass drum is rumbling, the guitars are screeching, and the lead vocalist is screaming as if his lungs were on fire...
Categorically anti-commercial in their tone, Slipknot ignored the typical formula used by metal bands searching for success: produce one radio-friendly song, often an 80s cover to get exposure, enjoy reasonable sales of the debut album, then soften the vocals, drop some distortion and get yourself onto TRL with album two (witness the mass popularity of Limp Bizkit’s George Michael cover “Faith,” followed by the huge success of “Nookie,” mirrored closely by Orgy’s mainstream success with the New Order cover...
...final highlight was a turn of politicization that one might not have expected from Slipknot. In between tracks at one point, the drummer held up an American flag while the vocalist, “#8,” gave a small speech calling for an end to hate crimes against Muslims and Arab-Americans, acts he described as “fucking bullshit.” He called for all Americans to accept differences in race and creed, “And know that we will punish the guilty and not the innocent...
Twenty-first century metal, championed in different fashions by both System of a Down and Slipknot, offers more than the hedonistic hair bands or Satanic ritualists of the 80s—it’s louder, it’s angrier and, more importantly, it’s often smarter...