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Originally Posted by crash_override
Again, it's people who aren't listening to the music. They are simply looking at the bands image, and the image of the fans and saying, "I don't want to be a part of that." Which is shallow in my opinion, but I'm not here to tell people how to live.
Bottom line, Slipknot gets a bad rep becasue they look like this:
Maybe if they looked more like this, they would get more attention on this forum:
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Putting an image of Morrissey up there is an OTT contrast, we`re talking metal here and not flower power hippies
Any band that is marketed like Slipknot with their image, is going to get a bad rap amongst people, who see the marketing without really listening to the music.
Theatrics have always been part of rock and the likes of Alice Cooper and The Tubes probably did it best IMO. More recently Marilyn Manson brought it back to the forefront, and Slipknot are just carrying on that tradition and with a decent metal sound. A sound that is a damn sight better than anything put out by Nickelback, Creed, Saliva, Staind and Linkin Park etc along with all the metalcore crap out there.