Yeah they have a metalish sound. So, they're metal. If you don't like them that's up to you I guess. They actually opened for me back when they didn't have masks and one or two members. (their hometown is only a couple hours away). Mick and Corey are really nice guys.
Pyre00 said:
Why does everyone care about what genre anything is?
wow. this on the other hand is pretty horrible: mixing metal distortion with radio-friendly chord progressions and a hip-hop beat & lyrical flow? is this for real?
i also love the shitty it's-your-fault-i'm-so-fucked-up lyrics ("we wave this flag of hatred/but you're the one that made this", god, grow up you fucking crybabies!). it's shit like that that made me stop listening to metal in the first place. i used to love Mudvayne, but over time i thought chad's lyrics just kept getting worse, even if musicallly they were tighter than ever (eg "dull boy" is a horrible song, but ryan's bass playing makes it somewhat listenable).
nu metal is the equivilent of diet coke it looks the same, tastes the same, sounds the same but you know its not the same especially when you look at bands such as linkin park which many say is to light for metal but also bands such as dream theatre which are prog metal have tones of slow songs and i havent heard anyone say they are not metal
true, but the metal songs that they actually do i'd say are closer to metal than anything linkin park has done, even a song like closer to edge is more hard rock/grunge than metal
They are metal, and they're pretty average. I like some of their stuff, but not that much. I think a big reason why a lot of people don't like them is because they're too damn popular for their own good (like Metallica, but not so much), which for a metal band, is a cardinal sin.
"Early heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple attracted large audiences, though they were often critically reviled, a status common throughout the history of the genre. In the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence; Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. Bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Iron Maiden followed in a similar vein. Before the end of the decade, heavy metal had attracted a worldwide following of fans known as "metalheads" or "headbangers"."
Do I consider Slipknot metal? no, its a different kind of metal, like scream-o metal or something thereof. I can't stand how every metal band now just have to get someone yelling in a either a whiny voice or a deep one.
Slipknot is nu metal.
Despite the name, nu metal technically isn't considered a subgenre of metal. Glam rock, once again despite the name, is considered a subgenre of metal.
Sorry folks. The non metal classification came from nu metal's roots. It's a blend of grunge and rap, both of which aren't metal. Grunge is essentially alternate rock with "heavy" downtuned guitars. Nu metal is grunge with rap on top.
I don't buy any shit reasons or definitions why Slipknot wouldn't be metal, all the things that make metal what it is can be found here.
That being said, I used to like them, but I think their musical career is somewhat of a rollercoaster, with constant ups and downs in quality... (in my opinion) the selftitled album and the Subliminal Verses were mostly good, Iowa was sorta weak, and the new album is crap with the exception of two or three songs.
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