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Slipknot
Formed in the mid-1990s, Slipknot became one of America's leading metal bands in
just a few short years, on the strength of some brutal albums. Formed in its
definitive configuration around 1997, the band struck hard with its first album,
Slipknot (no. 51), revealing no less than nine masked and costumed members,
practicing ultraviolent metal mixed with extreme influences (death metal,
industrial metal and even grindcore), yet not without melodic nuance. In 2001,
Iowa (No. 3) confirmed the band's status as the figurehead of American, if not
global, metal. Not very prolific and ha...
