![]() ![]() And that sound wasn’t the only scary thing about them: Upping the shock-rock ante established by Marilyn Manson in the ‘90s, Slipknot’s grotesque masks made them look like the death cult from some grindhouse flick. But the group’s self-titled 1999 debut and 2001 follow-up, Iowa, pushed the sound to new extremes, outfitting their palm-muted riffs with a percussive onslaught that owed as much to the rhythms of drum ‘n’ bass as the throttle of thrash. ![]() Founded in 1995, the Des Moines, Iowa band were spawned in nu-metal’s petri dish of mosh-pit aggression and turntablist textures. The turn of the millennium sparked fears of an imminent apocalypse, and Slipknot emerged at just the right time to provide its soundtrack.
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