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Originally Posted by LOLPOCALYPSE
I can understand where you are coming from to an extent, as I've noticed that MB metal people tend to be hostile towards anything touched by turntables or rap influence. But Slipknot has an identity (try to look passed the masks PLEASE). It just took them an album and a half to break away from the nu metal style. Slipknot have put themselves in a bad spot in that people only see them for their first album and thus toss them in with the generic nu metal bands. I am going to assume you have never heard their newest album (or possibly their 3rd). They show a lot of variety in their albums that sounds neither overproduced or too deliberate. Apart from a few singles ("Dead Memories", "Snuff", "Wait and Bleed"), Slipknot is a very original and distinctive band.
This is off topic anyway. I only brought Slipknot up to make a point, not to musically compare them to any band mentioned on this thread.
Bare in mind it was much easier to definitively break away from a tired glam and thrash formula than the multidimensional, multi-influenced music of today.
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Mainstream Metal today is certainly NOT multidimensional, multi-influenced as it was once was.
Not all of us were put off by the turntable being introduced into Metal and were around for the first wave of this music.
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