I remember Slipknot as being the radio-friendly stand-in for hardcore, with MTV-ish radio hits like Duality. But damn, I forgot how HARD they went on the first couple albums. This is a great example of why plenty of death metal fans in my age range cite them as a gateway drug.

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    1 year ago

    Oh yeah, I got hooked on a couple songs off that first Slipknot album.

    Some of my other gateway bands: Static-X, Mudvayne, Coal Chamber, Deftones (especially Adrenaline), Ministry, RATM, White Zombie, fuck I might as well post my whole CD book from high school lmao.

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    1 year ago

    I’m hooked on a couple of different bands right now… Vulture Industries is one, they’re kind of an avant-garde prog metal rock band? As the World Burns has been stuck in my head for a week now.

    Blackbraid is great as well, black metal isn’t really my thing but he’s got a great atmosphere that I really enjoy.

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      1 year ago

      Nice! I love genre crossovers like that. Winds of Tragedy did that for me recently for black metal. I’ll have to check out Vulture Industries and Blackbraid

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        1 year ago

        I’ve never heard of Winds of Tragedy before, but I just checked out Our Time is Gone and it’s a pretty great song, I’ll have to check out the rest 🙂