What is a heavy metal?I've heard the term so often, but im not sure what exactly it is
This is why people hate slipknot. Because their fanbase is full of fools who think they are insanely heavy.
Slipknot heavy! No they aren't try listening to suicide silence or cannibal corpse or something like that admittedly they are a very good band but heavy nah like GOM SWAG CHICKEN said that's why people hate them they think they are like the heaviest **** around but they really aren't
This is why people hate nu metal and nu metal fans, same with metal core fans. They think their music is 'sooooo br00tal' in comparison to bands like Slayer, Death, Cannibal Corpse, Kreator, Sodom, etc. Thrash metal is better. People discriminate against Slipknot because its not the heaviest thing out there, and Slipknot's 12 year old fans try to make it out to be.
Because Thrash is a stripped down version of metal, the American Hardcore of metal. The bands don't wear costumes, they just tear your face off and send you home with an aching neck. In contrast, quite a bit of Nu-metal isn't metal by many previous definitions. It has a tendency to get labeled metal, but owes as much to NIN as it does to traditional metal. Which is a bit like Thrash metal, which by adopting some elements of punk, violated many of the things which previously defined metal. Personally, I wouldn't call slipknot nu metal, as they merely gained success at the same time as nu-metal bands came to the forefront. They have little in common with nu-metal bands in their style. If I want to bag on slipknot, I just call them what they are. GWAR wannabees who play dress up and most likely have wet dreams about going golfing with Alice Cooper and discussing production values with Madonna.
Because Limp Bizkit is the most objectively terrible metal band on the planet, their legacy spawned a genre of metal for preteens, and its tough for more traditional metal fans to take it seriously.
