![]() With Slipknot making Halloween an everyday event, it’s understandable that the group’s publicist feels compelled to stress that the band also puts care and effort into its songwriting as well. What’s more, when the band members - some of whom have exchanged their names for numerals - take the stage in these masks (and matching, sometimes faux-blood-stained jumpsuits), they deliver the stuff of modern-day metal legend: relentlessly full-throttle aggression, chaotic and frightening enough to generate as many nightmares as Gene Simmons’ blood-spewing antics did in the ’70s. ![]() The Slipknot get-ups range from a psychotic clown to a bloody mime. ![]() ![]() We’re not talking sparkly Mexican wrestling masks or rubbery Dick Nixon mugs. 28 release of its second Roadrunner album, “Iowa”) more than anything else, and what distinguishes it from just about every other act, is that each member of the band wears a mask. What’s helped win Slipknot that title (which it is sure to retain following the highly anticipated Aug. In fact, most groups have nothing in common with the hardcore nonet, which, in the three years since emerging from the very definition of the middle of nowhere - Des Moines, Iowa - has gone on to establish itself as the reigning act of shock rock. “They take their music very seriously,” a Roadrunner Records publicist says of the label’s platinum shock-thrashers Slipknot.
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