what are some bands that sound like Slipknot, specifically their first album
any bands who incorporate "real" metal with that sound would be even more appreciated

Slayer - God Hates Us All sounds kind of like Slipknot.

It really really doesn't sound athing like Slipknot at all, GHUA just seems to have more punk elements with the writing and playing to my ears.

Might try some of Static X if you want something a little closer to metal yet still in that general area.

Static X are nothing like Slipknot other than being pigeonholed in the same shitty label of nu-metal/mallcore.

Dry Kill Logic, on their first album, "The Darker Side of Nonsense" (2001). Check out the songs "Pain" (in particular, listen between 0:20 and 0:45) and "Nothing" (in particular, listen between 00:35 and 00:50) - reminiscent of self-titled era Slipknot to my ears. If you listen to the rest of the album, you'll surely find other nuggets of almost-plagiaristic goodness (for example, the chorus of the song "Weight" [listen between 0:49 and 1:10] sounds right out of a Korn song).

Static X actually make consistently awesome industrial hard rock.

V-Mob has some songs that sound like Slipknot. The song Reflections is actually confused for Slipknot quite a bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P6TqcwDoSo

I have an Earache compilation that has a band called Carnival in Coal on it. To me, the Carnival in Coal song sounds kinda like Slipknot. The song is called "Right Click-Save As".

Carnival in Coal are nothing like Slipknot. That one song is vastly different from everything else on the album its off. Hell, Carnival in Coal songs almost never sound like eachother. That said, what's the Slipknot demo debut like? I heard it had funk, disco, and jazz elements...And no Corey Taylor or whatever his name is.

MFKR is really the only Slipknot album I can listen to. I'd say it's more groovy than a lot of other nu-metal music, and for some reason that makes it enjoyable to me. It has a pretty cool guitar tone too.

Definitely check out Crossbreed from Florida - Rap/Industrial Metal that totally kicks the shit out of so many other bands. They are fairly obscure, but but their full-length Synthetic Division is a heavy slab of very unique metal in a vein similar to Slipknot.

Also, Mnemic is a band from the Netherlands, I think? Anyways, they play a fusion of Death/Industrial/Groove Metal which is similar to MFKR and the self-titled album. Their newer album Passenger is shit though... they lost their old vocalist and shifted to a Industrial Metalcore sound which blows chunks. The Audio Injected Soul is their best though, and features a unique Industrial Metal cover of Duran Duran's "Wild Boys" which kicks so much ass. I highly recommend this band.

Also, Dry Kill Logic (as mentioned above) are another good band to check out. They have that Rap/Groove Metal sound (that Slipknot uses quite a bit) on their first two albums The Darker Side of Nonsense and The Dead and Dreaming.

Static X isn't a bad suggestion either. They definitely have a different formula to their music, but Wisconsin Death Trip, Shadow Zone and Start a War are their stuff closest to Slipknot's sound. Machine is a very cold album, and is more like early Pitch Shifter than Slipknot, so don't look to there for that Slipknot sound.

cheers,
--N

Have you heard their most recent release, Of Vengeance and Violence (2006)? I'm considering checking it out. While I don't pay much attention to bands of Dry Kill Logic's ilk, I do recall that The Dead and Dreaming had its moments. If you have heard their latest output, where does it stand in comparison to their previous releases?

My buddy bought it upon release, and it is utter drivel. I don't know what happened, but it sounds very unenthusiastic - and the band has definitely lost it's edge. However, a couple of gems - mainly 'Kingdom of the Blind' (a very nice, smooth ballad) and 'Caught in the Storm' (a funky, aggressive track) are worth downloading, if nothing else.

The album is nothing compared to their earlier works, which are getting a much-deserved re-visiting right now

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Also, Mnemic is a band from the Netherlands, I think? Anyways, they play a fusion of Death/Industrial/Groove Metal which is similar to MFKR and the self-titled album. Their newer album Passenger is shit though... they lost their old vocalist and shifted to a Industrial Metalcore sound which blows chunks. The Audio Injected Soul is their best though, and features a unique Industrial Metal cover of Duran Duran's "Wild Boys" which kicks so much ass. I highly recommend this band.
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No. Mnemic is a Danish band (from Denmark, that is), but Denmark and the Netherlands tend to be the same according to you Northern Americans.
Nevertheless, Mnemic is nothing like Slipknot, maybe their old demos when they also used some kind of masks and strange nicknames. Now, I personally think they're a mediocre rip-off of Fear Factory and the modern death/thrash scene. The latter is very popular in Denmark, leading to a lot of crappy bands.

I take it that you're a fan of the band, then? I briefly revisited The Darker Side of Nonsense last night, but promptly revisited my rationale for having exiled the band from my music collection in the first place. The said album struck me as insipid and uninspired. Granted, they threw in a few unconventional moments (their ode to the Spice Girls on the song 'Rot', for instance), and I actually quite enjoyed the little acoustic and vocal number at the end (downloading it again now, think I'll keep this one), but these fleeting instances of stimulation were nevertheless unable to redeem the album on the whole.

The Dead and Dreaming was similarly received. Their sound was a lot more consistent on this album, and somewhat more enjoyable I think. It was absolutely unmemorable though. I can't pick out a single part of the album that I actually remember - just the general consistent style of the album, and the vocalist's annoying screaming.

Thanks for the heads-up on their most recent stool, in any case. I don't think I'll investigate it any further. On a different note, have you heard their ode to 'Take Me Out To The Ball Game'? If not, here's a link to the classic, ridiculous music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHytoS8lKoQ

All North Americans tend to be the same according to you Danes.

God man, you guys will classify anything you don't like as "crappy metalcore", "nu metal" or "Slipknot ripoffs". That's hilarious.

I suspected that. I'm not surprised that the other songs sound nothing like "Right Click-Save As".

Mushroomhead's album XIII is similar IMO

amazing that this thread hasn't just immediately collapsed into "Slipknot sucks" posts...


anyway I have no useful advice to offer.

Where does that actually happen in this thread? The only time those terms appear in this thread is in your message (and mine now, because I'm quoting you). Like thinkpad20 said, this thread has actually been pretty civil, rather than the shit throwing fest one might expect to spontaneously erupt at any mention of the name "Slipknot".

I don't want to derail the thread or anything, but why do you want bands that sound like Slipknot?

Read the post again. He said the first album. Its significantly different from their other stuff (shit).

I was hoping one could sense the irony in the double standard answer I wrote.
I think only a small percentage of the Earth's population can't tell the difference between an American or Canadian. This is not the case with the smaller European countries, obviously. I don't know what you're being teached in school in either the United States or Canada, but I can hardly believe you graduate knowing the difference between Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland or the Faroe Island.

Slipknot sounded quite unique back then although they sound immature. You should try American Head Charge " the war of art ". they use more industrial overtones but quite similar.

Fantomas maybe? manic metal, with crazy vocals and weird sound effects. or anything to do mike patton

Dude, if you noticed in my post I said "I think"; I just couldn't remember the country they were from, couldn't be bothered enough to look it up, and really, don't be so butthurt about it. Honest mistake and all that.

And really, what I'm being taught in school is none of your business :p

Oh god, what a terrible video, haha.

In any case, I moreso was a fan of the band, and I enjoy revisiting them once in a blue moon. It's rather funny though, I never could put my finger on why Rot' sounded so familiar in that once section, haha. If you enjoyed "Goodnight" you'd also enjoy "Kingdom of the Blind" off the new album - similar feel/style.

Also, you might want to check out Demon Hunter if you enjoyed Dry Kill Logic - better vocalist (better screams and cleans, to boot) and I think stronger songwriting in certain areas. They are hard to classify into any one sound, but they have a fusion of nu metal and metalcore with some hints of melodeath/deathcore in certain parts; it's rather hard to describe their music, as it's not so aggressive as it is hard, if that makes any sense. They frequently have more laid-back, acoustic songs. "My Heartstrings Come Undone" is a must-hear track (there's also an alternate, acoustic version of it, btw)

cheers,
--N

At the rate our schools are spiralling down the drain, it won't be long before "Europe" is pretty much considered a single country with a lot of people who only begrudgingly get along.

And there's a big difference between Americans and Canadians. They say aboot instead of about and that's just silly. Also, they have the misfortune of the government controlling their health care. We aren't quite that fucked yet.

I can see that happening. Arguably that is already the case with regard to Africa - people thinking of it as just one nation. Indeed, the geographical knowledge (or the relative lack thereof) among teenagers today is something to be lamented. I recall a conversation I had with a coworker some time ago; we were talking about Antarctica for some reason. The conversation soon boiled down to a debate as to the location of Antarctica, with my coworker insisting that Antarctica is above Australia, in the Northern Hemisphere.

I was also having a conversation with a colleague at university recently - we were talking about the United Arab Emirates. As a joke, I feigned belief that the United Arab Emirates is a landlocked country situated directly between Germany and France. To my abject horror, my colleague readily and seriously accepted this. Granted, we're not geography students, but come on...

I find this kind of abject ignorance to be wholly appalling.

Thats nothing. I've met people who thought their home town was in the Arctic Circle (when it was located in Ontario.)

I'd weep for humanity if I didn't so loathe it.

Wait.

What?

There is a slipknot-like band out there called "Nothingface" definitely check them out if you are into slipknots stuff.

Listen to metalcore band The Agony Scene
specifically, album "The Darkest Red".

it's much more metal than slipknot, being melodeath based, but it does still have some 'knotish discordant guitar riffs that you should enjoy.


Also check out Chimaira's first album and DevilDrivers first album, both are groove influenced nu-metal which sounds similiar to slipknot, good stuff

Yeah, this was pretty much my reaction. I don't see how ANYONE could think Fantomas sounded like Slipknot... and it's a known fact that Mike Patton absolutely hates Slipknot, thus it could be (safely) assumed that he would try NOT to sound like them.

I like the reference to Crossbreed above, though. Not so much rap, but definitely industrial. The vocals can be a bit of a pain, but I like the sonic textures they've got going on Synthetic Division.

If you like them, you might want to look at Oblivion Machine, who were just recently added to the archives.
http://www.myspace.com/oblivi0nmach1ne
A little too "Nu-" for my tastes, but they've definitely got a tasteful use of electronics.

I really have found no one band that sounds like Slipknot really. I would probably say a mid 90s Slayer trying to rip Mr. Bungle, at best.

That is utterly off. The Agony Scene sounds like a scene-kiddie rip-off of In Flames. Nothing on that album is like any Slipknot song. Nothing.

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