great metal, period.

Slipknot is one of my favorite bands, because of how they achieved their status and what they believed in. When the band started, they made rules. In 1995 there were two rules. Slipknot had to play what they wanted to play and it didn't matter what they played, who they played to and the cost of seeing them play should never matter. A band that played for the fans and not for themselves was rare, and that combined with their unparalleled sound sold me completely. The second rule was that there needed to be 3 drummers. The members came from several different bands and each had the common view on the way that everything was going in the town of Des Moines, they were sick of it; there was no music scene, it was hard to get bands CDs, or anything. As a result Slipknot was born with one mission, this mission being to 'Clean up the music industry'. The band's aims remain to be to create a sound the world has never heard, a vision no one has ever seen, this can be clearly seen by the hype to Slipknot's second album. They sensed people were ready for a show, rather than some guys just playing some music.
I love this band because their music is fantastic, and for some strange reason I connect with it on a level that I rarely can do with anything. A small band from a small town in Iowa accomplished so much, and their music started a "revolution" of sorts in metal music.