Poll: Slipknot

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

Okay I was on ultimate-guitar recently checking the news in the rock and metal world and There was an article on the Kerrang! awards in which Slipknot won best international and best live band. I read the comments and it seems like the ENTIRE metal community on there hates them, but I want to ask the escapists on their opinion of Slipknot. How do you feel about the nine masked band?

 

[Emilie Diabolica]

well... when i was in my ickle-gothy-15-year-old phase, i was a huge fan. i still like them, just dont listen to them much anymore..
*shrugs*
i think theyre a great band, but they get a lot of shit from most of the metal community because i think the majority of their fanbase gives them a bad name as a reputable band (like those irritating mall-goths who seem to think drinking goon in parks is cool... or something).

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

well... when i was in my ickle-gothy-15-year-old phase, i was a huge fan. i still like them, just dont listen to them much anymore..
*shrugs*
i think theyre a great band, but they get a lot of shit from most of the metal community because i think the majority of their fanbase gives them a bad name as a reputable band (like those irritating mall-goths who seem to think drinking goon in parks is cool... or something).

Huh that's probably the best explanation I've heard for that so far, thank you

 

[Ophiuchus]

I was never their biggest fan, but I like 'em well enough. Got their first three albums, or at least the first three that are readily available, although I don't listen to them much nowadays. Still got a few songs on my iPod though.

 

[DrunkWithPower]

they were go while they lasted... then sunk.

 

[Lord Thodin]

I love the band. I can see why most of the metal community would hate them. I read up on their fan forums when im bored and its 5 in the morning and ive had too much Amp; anyway apparently alot of fans are mad that Corey Taylor (lead singer) made the band Stonesour and used the sort of weaker hard rock crowd to pull more fans to slipknot as opposed to stronger metal heads who have followed the band from its roots. This angered them i guess, cause they come to see Corey Taylor rather than for the actual band, i dunno. I just like their music.

 

[Specter_]

People=Shit

How can I not like them?

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

I love the band. I can see why most of the metal community would hate them. I read up on their fan forums when im bored and its 5 in the morning and ive had too much Amp; anyway apparently alot of fans are mad that Corey Taylor (lead singer) made the band Stonesour and used the sort of weaker hard rock crowd to pull more fans to slipknot as opposed to stronger metal heads who have followed the band from its roots. This angered them i guess, cause they come to see Corey Taylor rather than for the actual band, i dunno. I just like their music.

Yeah from what I was told Corey and Jim(the guitarist whose in stone sour and slipknot) spend most of their time with slipknot, when they aren't playing, writing stuff for stone sour. So it seems that they aren't focused what so ever on Slipknot :S

 

[Dogstile]

nothing wrong with them, they're getting softer in there songs though, although that might not be a bad thing

 

[Lord Thodin]

I love the band. I can see why most of the metal community would hate them. I read up on their fan forums when im bored and its 5 in the morning and ive had too much Amp; anyway apparently alot of fans are mad that Corey Taylor (lead singer) made the band Stonesour and used the sort of weaker hard rock crowd to pull more fans to slipknot as opposed to stronger metal heads who have followed the band from its roots. This angered them i guess, cause they come to see Corey Taylor rather than for the actual band, i dunno. I just like their music.

Yeah from what I was told Corey and Jim(the guitarist whose in stone sour and slipknot) spend most of their time with slipknot, when they aren't playing, writing stuff for stone sour. So it seems that they aren't focused what so ever on Slipknot :S

Woah Jim Root is going over to Stone Sour!? Fuckin eh, if that damn cyst of a band hadnt appeared they might have put out an album comparable to Iowa, rather than a the newest POS that they released

 

[Fulax]

I was at Wacken Open Air last week and when Slipknot came on the big screen everyone started booing. It was beautiful.

Anyway, most of the metal community hates them because bands like that make the general population believe that metal is for angsty teenagers and emos.

 

[satanslawer123]

i think slipknot are qa brillant band and i think most of the metal community arent metal enough to except slpknots songs

 

[the_duke_CC]

I've liked Slipknot for a long time, but I'm interested in the awards that they won I saw them on they're last tour and they were really good but best live band, I'm not so sure. any idea who they were up against in both catagories. It would be interesting to see who they beat for those.

Anyway back to the band, i can understand why they get so much negativity from metal fans i gather it's from the singles that they realsed from the two previous albums have been precived as being a bit soft and a bit commercial, not that theres anything wrong with that of course it's good to see that a band (especially in this genre) have more than one layer to their music. I will say this however if Slipknot had continued writing the same way as in the albums Slipknot and Iowa I suspect that the metal crowd would still have a dislike for them for being to repetitive.

 

[Sevre]

I liked them up until the third album, then I realised that they are pretty mediocre and there are better bands out there. People = Shit is still the shit though.

 

[messy]

I think they're pretty good, but I haven't got any of the albums and can only go on the singles they've released. I imagine they'd be pretty sick live

 

[Vern]

I still enjoy their self-titled album. I never liked their follow ups, it seems like Corey tore out his vocal chords early on and couldn't scream as well as he used to. Still, their self titled is a great album. I'm not quite sure they need 9 people though.

 

[WittyName]

To be honest, they're not the sort of band I'd listen to out of choice, but I don't mind listening to them if one of their songs is on the TV when I'm at a friends house.

 

[.Ricks.]

I like them, but that's as far a it goes, seen them live and they put up a great show!

 

[Geamo]

I like some of their songs. I'm the least likely person you'd guess that sometimes listens to them.

 

[Harlemura]

I don't like metal and Slipknot's no exception. Most of their stuff sounds like someone trying to eat the microphone and the rest of the band improvising through the whole song.
But that's just my opinion.