Slipknot (Roadrunner, 1999) leverages turntables, samples and percussions, not just guitars, to achieve maximum ferocity, in a manner that makes Slayer and Sepultura pale.
The music is excessive and furious, with frequent changes of pace, and a wealth of sonic detours. The grotesque panzer dance of Sic lets the vocalist scream his vulgar outrage over tribal drums and mad guitars. A similar farcical posture, conjuring images of a witches cancan, underlies Surfacing, while the turntables hark back to the industrial devastation of Cop Shoot Cop. The limping pace and the agonizing guitar riffs of Eyel E SS sound like a vaudeville sketch in hell. The epic rap of Spit It Out indulges in wild dynamics, for example repeating the refrain in two completely opposite tones, that demonstrate the difference with, say, Kid Rock. This style that straddles the line between tragic and comic reveals its desperate face in Liberate, not a song but an act of vomiting, and No Life, not a song but a schizophrenic duet between an evil and a wise selves.
In the middle of this uncontrolled havoc, the bands suddenly turns into Nirvana copycats with the relatively catchy refrain of Wait And Bleed, while Tattered And Torn is an avantgarde piece masquerading as a personal exorcism. And the album closes with the total chaos of Scissors (nine minute), a Freudian descent into a damned soul. There is enough variety to engage the listener in a re-examination of her metal stereotypes.
ITT: Post the dumbest things Scaruffi ever said
>implying he's wrong
>metal listener
>her
wew
Slipknot were almost incredible though
He's right. He's just not attached to the meme status of nu metal and can see the best of it for what it is.
>leverages turntables, samples and percussions, not just guitars
>more instruments = good
why do people take him seriously again
what about the myriad of other things he said beyond and elaborating on that?
>implying I don't want to just hate blindly
>Warning: people are allowed to own and carry guns [in the USA]. If you are from Europe: would you visit a country if they told you that you are 5 times more likely to be killed in that country than at home? The murder rate in the USA is 5 times the murder rate in Europe. If you are from East Asia, the gap is even bigger. In some towns virtually every household has a gun and has the right to use it. Check before you travel. The USA is one of the most dangerous countries to visit. More people are murdered yearly in the USA than in all wars fought by the USA since the Vietnam war. If you are a foreign student applying to a US university, check whether guns are allowed on the campus of the university that you plan to join: it was legal in 8 states as of 2015.
>Death Grips' lame No Love Deep Web (2012) continued the artistic decline of the project.
like they ever declined
fucking idiot
He's right.
Yes, because we all know that the families who own a gun for protection are the ones murdering people. Completely logical.
Yeah seriously, NLDW was a huge step up in quality from the Money Store
but they are
The_Donald
I totally side with those who claim that the USA has to understand the source of the violence. This is a violent society to start with, and guns only amplify the problem (in particular they amplify the number of people who get killed by an act of violence). Those critics claim that removing every single gun would not solve the root problem. I think they are both right and wrong: they are right that there is a fundamental problem with a society that has such a passion for violence, but i also think that the second amendment had much to do with creating that passion for violence. It is not the only cause, but probably a more severe cause than Hollywood movies and videogames and rap songs. The USA is one of the few countries left with the death penalty, and some of the places with the highest execution rates (notably Texas) also have the highest density of guns: people who claim they need guns and the death penalty to defend themselves from a violent society are confusing cause and effect. I agree with many other factors invoked by the gun lobby to explain the violent society (although one wonders why European and Asian kids who watch the same violent movies and play with the same violent videogames are much less likely to become mass murderers). It might well be that the high rate of divorce (broken families in general) and of drug and alcohol consumption (never a sign of happiness) have something to do with the homicide rate.
Really makes you think...
they wouldn't need protection if there were no other guns
I think what's ridiculous here is the claim that "the US is one of the most dangerous countries to visit"
Things that may annoy you [in the USA]:
The USA is the only country left on the planet that still uses the ancient Roman imperial system for measurements (miles, feet, gallons) instead of the metric system
The USA has very few trains and they are terribly slow and antiquated. This forces the traveler to continuously use airports with all the inconvenience (limited and sometimes lost luggage, security checks, lenghty boarding and disembarking, can't bring your own drinks, limited use of electronic devices, bumpy rides, sardine-like seats, impossible workspace, store things away for take off and landing, etc) and obsolence (airports are usually very far from your destination and transportation to town is expensive and/or slow).
The planes of US airlines are quite primitive by international standards.
Prices are never the real price (they never include the "taxes")
Colossal amount of plastic and colossal waste in general
Lots of homeless people, more than in any other developed country
Obese people have the same rights as normal people... and they are really obese (airlines will charge you if you have an extra kg of luggage but will not charge someone whose butt takes two seats)
Huge gas-sucking cars (their "compact" car is everybody else's "full size" car) and very cheap gasoline, a combination which results in a colossal waste of gasoline
People do not wash their hands before eating and often suck their fingers when finished eating (when you use the utensils at an all-you-can-eat buffet, those utensils have been used by countless people who did not wash their hands), a puzzling behavior by people who are obsessed with deodorants and showers and flossing
Air-conditioned buildings (they make you freeze even in the summer)
Waiters are hysterical about cleaning up your table even before you finished eating
The USA writes the date as month/day/year instead of day/month/year or year/month/day (a very irrational compromise between the two most widespread formats)
Anywhere in the USA avoid taxis and shuttles. The drivers can be arrogant and aggressive. They routinely demand a tip, often cheat customers, and are prone to accidents. If you make reservations online, they might ask you to pay the tip even before they show up!
For mysterious reasons people cannot write the number "9". They write it with a straight vertical line, despite the fact that all their computers and phones show the correct vertical curve (curve, not line).
>Slipknot leverages turntables, samples and percussions, not just guitars, to achieve maximum ferocity, in a manner that makes Slayer and Sepultura pale.
this triggers the metalfag
>Air-conditioned buildings (they make you freeze even in the summer)
nothing wrong with that
too cold >>>> too hot
most of these are valid, but it amuses me to no end when people act like they're being bamboozled by sales tax
utensils in restaurants are washed, theoretically, kind of a bad example of a valid point about people having arbitrary mental gymnastics that make them feel better about germs
the number 9 thing is kind of a lose-lose thing, if you're writing a string of characters like those in a router number or something where you need to differentiate, the straight line makes it look like a q and the curved one makes it look like a g
Jesus and Sup Forums complains about their country being "too progressive"
this is a wonderful music related thread :)