Slipknot: For Better Or For Worse?

Do you like Slipknot's older, harsh trashing? Or do you like their (new) nu-metal emotional sound?

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Over time, Slipknot (the heavy metal band) has changed generes quite a bit. They started of with a death metal/rap mix (on albums such as Slipknot and Iowa) that gave them a unique sound, which, more often than not, was littered with screaming and profanity. Now, with the album Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses, they added more emotion to their songs, and even verged on a ballad (Vermillion). Which is your favorite, if any?
 
SlipKnot is no longer considered Death Metal anymore from what I have heard...many fans have moved on...they had something, but after the last few albums it's really been weaker then before.
 
I never even considered Slipknot metal in the first place, they just didn't fall in with any of the others IMO.

I never liked them though, and I think they are one of the more horrible bands I've heard.
 
Whats bad about Slipknot? They may be metal (or whatever the hell they call them now) but they have intense drumming, creative gutair riffs, and piercing vocals.

Best OLD slipknot song: Wait and Bleed
Best NEW slipknot song: The Nameless
 
The drumming is halfway decent, I'll give them that... but I don't find them that creative at all. It's all nothing I've never heard before and it becomes repetitive for me after just a few songs. I think they really try too hard with the vocals too, they just sound horrible to me.

This is pretty much my attitude towards most nu-metal and hardcore acts all around though, I just don't like them. From what I understand though the reason they get mixed up in metal is because of the whole nu-metal label, which from what I've heard and actually believe myself is a different form of rock with metal and hip-hop influences. I just don't think it works.

It could just be that my standard for musicianship has gotten really high since I've gotten so hardcore into metal, that's just how my opinions turned. I actually did like them before I started into metal.. but once I found some new bands I got to where I couldn't listen to them anymore.
 
The drumming is halfway decent, I'll give them that... but I don't find them that creative at all. It's all nothing I've never heard before and it becomes repetitive for me after just a few songs. I think they really try too hard with the vocals too, they just sound horrible to me.

This is pretty much my attitude towards most nu-metal and hardcore acts all around though, I just don't like them. From what I understand though the reason they get mixed up in metal is because of the whole nu-metal label, which from what I've heard and actually believe myself is a different form of rock with metal and hip-hop influences. I just don't think it works.

It could just be that my standard for musicianship has gotten really high since I've gotten so hardcore into metal, that's just how my opinions turned. I actually did like them before I started into metal.. but once I found some new bands I got to where I couldn't listen to them anymore.
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Understandable. It's never too late to be a maggot though.  :lol
 
Well, metal and classic rock, mostly metal though. For metal it changes from day to day since I've gotten to 100+ bands that I listen to, but right now it's mostly Death, Black, and Viking metal. And more recently neo-classical influenced progressive stuff.
 
Not at all, I love introducing new bands to people

here's some Death: Nile, Death, Strapping Young Lad, Daath, Lykathea Aflame, Dismember, Bloodbath, Morbrid Angel, Bolt Thrower, Absu, Entombed

PanzerChrist - mix between these two

Some Black: Old Man's Child, Behemoth, Carpathian Forest, Immortal, Emperor, Naglfar, Agathodamion, Arcturus( their older stuff, newer is more avent garde,b ut still great ), Satyricon, Graveworm

Medolic Death stuff: In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Insomnioum, Mors Principium Est, Hypocrisy, Arch Enemy, Disarmonia Mundi, Scar Symetry, Quo Vadis, At the Gates, Kalmah

Viking stuff: Ensiferum, Borknagar, Elvenking, Ulver, Skyclad, Enslaved, Windir, Wintersun, Thyfring

And more progressive stuff: Opeth, Dream Theater, Symphony X, Yngwie Malnsteen, Shadow Gallery, Devin Townsend, Evergrey
 
I figured as much, that's the normal response I get when recommending bands to those not familiar with the area.

For listening to angry music, some of the death and black can be pretty brutal. A lot of the early 80's death was basically about gore and early black from what I know was formed out of opposition to a certain church. Some of it moved away from that but there's still a lot. If you look past the lyrics though the music will go way beyond the sound of Slipknot.

The technical skill of some of them is nothing but remarkable to me.
 
Hopefully their older stuff, the Colony CD and below, Reroute was half-way decent. Their new stuff is just plain generic.
 
I think Slipknot has progressed nicely through the years. I like their old stuff just as much as their new stuff, but for different reasons. However, I wouldn't use "emotional" as an adjective to describe their sound. Music, being an art form, is fuelled by emotions, regardless of genre. Just because new Slipknot favors singing over screaming does not make it any more "emotional" than previous albums.
 
stealth toilet said:
I think Slipknot has progressed nicely through the years. I like their old stuff just as much as their new stuff, but for different reasons. However, I wouldn't use "emotional" as an adjective to describe their sound. Music, being an art form, is fuelled by emotions, regardless of genre. Just because new Slipknot favors singing over screaming does not make it any more "emotional" than previous albums.
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Quite true. Most music, even non-vocal music has an emotion associated with it. Probably why we like music in the first place. It invokes feeling in all of us.
 
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