![]() ![]() It has long been a tradition at Slipknot shows for the entire audience to be ordered, by amiable but commanding frontman Corey Taylor, to down during the middle of this song. And yes, there are few more peculiar singalong refrains than “You can’t see California without Marlon Brando’s eyes!” Lyrically, too, Slipknot went against the grain from the start, combining metal’s abrupt defiance with a strain of surrealism and dark poetry that indicated a deftly expressed intelligence that has since become a hallmark of the band’s music. Eyeless is a case in point its jittery breakbeats and squalling sound effects bring extra layers of chaos and menace to the band’s runaway train momentum and fist-to-face ferocity. Slipknot’s sound has always hinged on the power and force of their riffs, but there is far more to their sound than mere metallic bombast. As a result, both mainstream rock fans and underground diehards embraced the band. ![]() Instead, as demonstrated on furious calls-to-arms such as Surfacing, Slipknot were re-appropriating the brutal, churning extremity of death metal and hurling it into a fresh context. is widely regarded as a demo, rather than an album proper) certainly exhibited a few nu-metal characteristics, but its musical core had little in common with the slick rap-rock of Limp Bizkit. Their 1999 self-titled debut (1996’s Mate. While some rock pundits continue to associate Slipknot with the nu-metal movement of the mid-to-late 90s, the reality is that the Iowans sounded its death knell. ![]()
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