Top 10 Reasons to Hate Slipknot

If they had no masks and stage show of evil clowns humping drums and whatnot, people wouldn't even know who slipknot is. They are a lame emo band being passed off as metal.

This list is a clear example of how bad top tens in TheTopTen website can be. More than 3/4 of the arguments here are not valid, and it is clear and obvious this is just a hate list.

Slipknot gets all this recognition for making bad, lame music. There are modern metal bands like Havok, Evile, Municipal Waste, or Gama Bomb.

I have listened to lots of Slipknot's work, and I could only find 1 or 2 songs that I actually enjoyed. People claim them to be the best but they don't stack up to bands like Slayer or Anvil.

I love Slipknot and even I have to say their music isn't the greatest. Their guitars aren't anything special at all. But there drum beats make you want to head bang and Corey Taylors vocal range is great.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and you can't say something is bad backing it up with facts

Wrong. Although I think of Slipknot as my least favorite nu-metal band, the nu-metal thing wasn't bad and neither were they for that matter. Fans of the band will likely listen to something else metal-sounding too. For example I like Slipknot, Metallica, and Tool and they are three different types of metal bands, and I'm fine with that.

Also The Blister Exists is an awesome song.

No. Slipknot added to metal. Slipknot is their own genre. No band sounds exactly like Slipknot and they have their own sort of rawness. They have and will mark a place in rock and metal history

People listen and/or look at Slipknot and assume all metal is like that, and then go around talking about how bad metal is.

Ya anyone who thinks that needs to get a life. Behemoth and mayhem are like 500 million times heavier. I mean I like Slipknot but hell no, they aren't the heaviest. There are 100's of bands tons of times heavier. Like when I download a Slipknot album my phone only gains like 2 lbs heavier. When I download a behemoth album, I need to get a 6 ton block to lay my phone on because it's too heavy to carry ok!

Not everyone is gonna like slipknot and that is ok. But if I see anyone who doesn't like slipknot face to face I will start going insane and I will attack them and I will chop off their lips and I will cut their eyes out and I will just torture them.But believe it or not I am a very nice girl. I am a little but that's it other than that I am nice

I've been a Slipknot fan for a year and I can tell you, they're not the heaviest band out there. Sure, the heaviest for Nu Metal but not everything else. It's true they can't compare to Slayer and Mayhem. I do hate the fans who think they're the heaviest metal band that ever existed

Slipknot shows us a very new side of metal that has created a whole new sub-genre within metal that I have never witnessed before. The fact that they have 9 members plays a key part in how the music is formed as it adds power and a very alternative rhythm that is not imitated in any other metal band I have listened to. I like the idea of having more members than a conventional metal band would have to create new and interesting music - such is Slipknots contribution to the metal world

Slipknot's musical aspect of their songs sounds like there are 3, maybe 4 members. There are 9... A singer, 2 guitarists, a keyboardist, a DJ, 2 Percussionists who sit there and hit one drum, a set drummer, and a bassist. With all those "musicians" it still sounds very basic and generic. Dream Theater can make twice the musical sound Slipknot has.

Slipknot are alright, but I admit that they are doing what other bands could do with 4 or 5 members. EG: They don't need two percussionists banging on giant tin cans.

Right.. The masks are what Slipknot are all about, its what makes them so unique. It contributes a theatrical dynamic to the music that adds to their sound and makes them very entertaining and interesting to watch. Their masks and music is so disturbing... I Love It

The masks are awesome! But that's really all I can give to them, I like some of their songs(The devil in I, psychosocial and dead memories) but that's it. I haven't found that many of their songs though.

The masks ARE slipknot... Without them they would just be some screaming emo band that nobody ever heard of. The masks appeal to 13 year olds... Their fanbase.

Slipknot is my favourite band and I also use the official slipknot app to meet other fans (aka-maggots) and we are not opinionated. Just because they are our favourite band it does not mean that we think they are the best or the heaviest. We get something out of their music that other music does not portray to us. I know a lot of slipknot fans that listen to Iron maiden, Metallica, Slayer and many more. Myself I listen to slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold and stone sour mostly (I'm only 17 so I'm not into the older classic bands as much although I respect them for what they do). Most people who hate on slipknot probably go in the YouTube comment section to see what their fans are like but you should not trust that toxic place. I can understand if you dislike a band or their fanbase, but don't stereotype a band of their fans please.

I think their fans are opinionated however there are exceptions. I really really like Slipknot actually, but I don't really like nu metal much. They don't really sound like nu metal honestly. Comparing them to drowning pool, god smack, and Korn, which are all mainstream nu-metal bands. They are their own genre, which is why I like them. They have that raw sound to them. I think it would be ok to say they are the best band for what they do. Like I mean, comparing them to Metallica or Whitechapel wouldn't be fair, because they are completely different types of metal respectable in their own ways so, I don't think it would be wrong if someone said Slipknot is their favorite band because that is their opinion. Someone might not think Metallica is any good, but you might think their the best. It all depends on your taste. Personally I'd put Slipknot in a top 10. Truly, aside from history, Slipknot has a raw sound that other bands don't have. Core metal is raw sounding but it's all screaming, with Slipknot, they can portray a raw sound without that, and for that, they deserve to have a big mark in rock and metal history. So ya, I do think Slipknot fans are opinionated but honestly that's ok, because we are all entitled to our own opinion. As long as we aren't asses about it it's not an issue. If a Slipknot fan is an ass, sure as heck kick his ass. Anyway if someone says their favorite band is something you don't like, that's not a bad thing.

This is literally a guy dressed in a Walmart Halloween costume making weird and unnecessary noises to the music.

Linkin park, limp bizkit and I think deftones has a dj in the band so whats the problem?

Who wants a DJ in a band seriously? What are they trying to pull although I like 2-3 songs...

This is the most ridiculous thing I have seen here. This list is beginning to contradict itself massively. 9 members, masks and a DJ and you're talking about originality?! This band sounds nothing like anything I have heard, they have a unique place in metal.

You just went on about the fact that they have nine members and a DJ, now your saying their unoriginal. If that was a normal thing to have in a band like them you wouldn't even be pointing that out.

I haven't heard anything original about them, they use generic, bland riffs and tunes.

Slipknot is mall core 12 year old music. Just "heavy, gimmick" pop music like avenged 7 fold, 5 finger death punch all awful bands. Shouldn't even be in a discussion with actual metal bands ie skeletonwitch amon amarth entombed exmortus etc.

They are metal, you're ignorant for thinking that you have to scream to be metal

That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard 😂. I'm assuming the only people who even voted this were grindcore and deathcore fans. Just because they aren't "brutal" doesn't mean they aren't actually metal. Slipknot does not = 5 Seconds Of Symmer

I like some of their songs and I do think they are quite original, but some fans (who I know in real life) keep making them bigger than they are. They're good but overrated if you ask me.

The reason they have a lot of fans is because not all people like to hear creaming into the microphone

Yeah, their fanbase is way to huge for a mediocre band like that...

Watch Undertakerfreak1127's video about this and you'll see what I mean (I love Slipknot, but they went too far).

Ya, honestly that did kinda suck

They are worst band ever sorry

No they didn't, the band started back in 1996, they had masks then, but a couple different members.

Okay...I don't like Slipknot, or Nu-Metal in general, but...
Bon Scott, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Zeke Zettner, ELVIS DAMMIT, Sid Vicious, John Bonham, Steve Clark, Allen Woody, Layne Staley, Dee Dee Ramone, Kevin DuBrow, Michael THE KING JACKSON! and The Rev, all died of drug overdose.
Do you want us to stop treating them like heroes because they died of drug overdose? Grow up, people.

Bruh, when you are living the life of a rockstar, that's normal. Look at Ozzy, I mean seriously. They just cared about him a lot and he died. Just because someone died from drugs doesn't mean their a bad person.

Don't you ignorant liars insult Paul Gray! He got the band to where they are now, and so what if he died from drugs? He died, and at the loss of a friend, I see why. Kinda obvious.

People even listen to the song to act badass and they need to be afraid. Idiots like these never saw.

They're not actually satanic though. It's just for shock value.

People listened Iowa too much.

John Bonham, Keith Moon, Neil Peart, Buddy Rich, Bill Ward, Ian Paice, Dave Lombardo, Stewart Copeland, Charlie Benante, Mike Portnoy, Ginger Baker and Danny Carey just to name a few

Out of all the dumb reasons on this list this is the dumbest for sure

Ok I'm not one of those people and ya I completely agree though I like Slipknot very much

A lot of their songs touched on this mix of genres and I believe it works really well. Songs like Surfacing, Diluted, Left Behind and Duality are awesome with this mix

Depends, The Negative One And Spit It Out Were very Near Rap And There Platinum Sellers lol

THey are not rap retards

Yes, I sit next to one in my tech class. He thinks they're actually good... WOW.

ThEstela are the most retarded reasons to hate a band simple as that.

Watch spit it out live its sounds terrible. The best metal vocalists are jens kidman, and randy blythe.

Yes they do and the people who commented below me are losers

Ok I read all your arguments they are all just bad arguments the drums are bad their are much better drummers out there its all opinion and also rip offs of mushroomhead maybe they are maybe there not but my opinion is slipknot is just better than mushroomhead like I never heard of mushroomhead before either just cause slipknot out done them lol only opinion because I know sum mushroomhead fan will be raging or whatever and the worth argument of all there mainstream like who cares you hipster

I think of this isn't a reason.

Haha say that to Corey.

Slipkock sucks and gives a bad name to badasses like limp bizkit

This Cold Black. They think Black is a noun that can be described.