slipknot Why do people hate Slipknot?

[Hornet-1]

I just joined and found that lots of people hate Slipknot on here. I can't seem to find any reason except for a few people saying their masks and behavior on stage are odd. Can someone enlighten me on why there is so much hate?

 

[AlSymerz]

Having never felt the urge to listen to a Slipknot song I can't say I hate them. I'm fairly sure they aren't to my taste therefore I wont listen to them. But I do reserve any right to hang shit on them.

I do think that Corey Taylor is a cockhead, although maybe that's just an act so the media give him the attention he desires.

[Nasty_Cabbage]

Well I'm going to have to make a concerted effort with my answer to keep from dragging discussion down to just a Slipknot hate rant so here goes: It's not that their on stage antics are "odd", it's that their antics are a marketing ploy that's been employed by countless others throughout the years. Many many popular bands from Kiss to Manowar have employed similar tactics, especially if they get signed and need to win radio air time. Hell, Lady fucking Gaga fans refer to themselves as "little monsters" for fucks sake. It's always the same old tricks of the trade that allows them to foment the emotional connection with the fans, and not the music. I lived in Des Moines when all of this 'maggot' nonsense was going on and every smelly goth kid with a hoodie and a safety pin was wearing some type of Slipknot gear purchased from hot topic. It's just that their marketing strategy was the only significant thing about them, and a quick glance at the music beneath that veneer showed them to be cookie cutter Midwest aggro.

I will admit my own bias against them though. I was also going to a ton of local shows around that time as well, and it felt like I was always running into those dudes, and with the exception of Joey Jordison, they were without fail the type of people that would walk into the venue and you just knew they were going to cause problems. When they weren't injuring themselves onstage they were being belligerent and injuring others. I just can't abide that kind of behavior.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

54 minutes ago, Hornet-1 said:

I just joined and found that lots of people hate Slipknot on here. I can't seem to find any reason except for a few people saying their masks and behavior on stage are odd. Can someone enlighten me on why there is so much hate?

We're mostly metalheads here and Balloon-knot is a shitty mainstream band. Most of us don't have any interest in listening to or talking about shitty mainstream bands, we find them intolerable and don't really consider many of them to even really be metal bands. It's nothing personal against that specific band or their fans, same thing goes for all shitty mainstream bands. If you hang around and end up becoming a metalhead then maybe one day you'll understand. We all had 'gateway' bands at one time in our lives that eased our transitions into extreme metal that we don't ever listen to anymore. We do understand that real metal's not for everyone, because most mainstreamers who find their way in here generally make a few posts and then disappear never to be heard from again.

[navybsn]

Simple - music is not engaging. Don't hate them, just don't care about them. I don't think anyone specifically foments hate towards them, it's just not something that interests the majority of the folks on the board. They can call themselves whatever they like, metal, pop, country and/or western. Makes no difference to me.

[JonoBlade]

I agree with what @Nasty_Cabbagesaid about image over substance.

But there's also a bizarre psychology to many metalheads about popularity delegitimizing a band.

I remember hearing the debut and thinking "the drumming is quite good and a little different, vocals are a bit annoying... but maybe I could like it" then realising that it seemed to be popular among more fairweather metal fans that want to be seen to look the part but are not interested in discovering new music.

You could find a ton of Slayer or Metallica fans like that I suppose, but those bands had more of a genuine impact when they hit the scene.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Whilst I doubt anything I have to say will be all of that enlightening I might as well chime in with my two cents on the matter. I wouldn’t say that I hate slipknot, as a band, anyway, I am completely indifferent towards them. I will say, however, that I hate what they represent, because what they represent is the watering down of metal in order to create an image and sound which appeals to the masses. It is the antithesis of the spirit of metal, and it’s not new. We saw the same thing with“hair metal“ in the 80s.  

[Gewaltundtod]

People HATED Slipknot because they were a new band that got popular quick off of the nu-metal scene despite not being a nu-metal band IMO and their most popular album got played to death on rock stations everywhere because it was a mix of heavy metal with rock and other genres that were popular at the time. People also dislike slipknot because of their fans which are pretty insufferable partly due to their age and partly due to the fact that slipknot introduces a lot of people to metal. 

I like to think of slipknot as a gateway drug into metal some people may take it once have fun for a few months and then move on and get addicted to a new band or they may stay with the band. I have fond memories of slipknot but I have largely out grown the band. 

[Arioch]

I don't hate Slipknot. In the same way as Korn, I'm not interested in them at all.

In fact, I couldn't care less.

[Yannis]

Slipknot was one of the first bands I came across, along with Disturbed and Evanescence. I honestly think most of the hate stems from their insane success which is very much deserved. I remember these guys touring almost non stop and putting out album after album since I was in highschool. Although I admit I don't listen to them as much anymore, i can say that people that genuinely commit time and effort hating on the band are just posers and trolls