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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
From the perspective of shock value against the current culture AC Vs ICP is more interesting.
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Honestly yes, and I'm not just putting forward my own random choice. Alice Cooper was clearly huge for his time, but Marilyn Manson had a very limited time period when that sort of quasi-metal was valid and after that he was basically irrelevant and didn't have the creativity to keep up with the times. But ICP took everything Cooper did and made it into a movement using a personality that even Cooper arguably never even reached.
Granted, ICP had their own due-by-date as far as the mainstream was concerned, but had a basic quality and ability to evolve that kept them going for a far longer period than Manson or even Cooper, and has continued to be relevant to a far larger contingent than either other artist could ever hope to cope with. So I'd say that as far as cheesy shock artists are concerned, ICP wins kinda by a mile. And yeah I'm even including GWAR.
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