Though they started in 1999, The Knife didn’t get mainstream success until singer-songwriter José González re-arranged and covered their song “Heartbeats,” which was used in a popular Sony commercial. The Knife is a brother and sister electronic pop duo from Sweden. Somehow that became the topic of conversation instead of our music.” These days, members of The Locust wear skin-tight, full-body nylon suits with hoods to make them resemble insects.
“We were just wearing our street clothes,” singer/bassist Justin Pearson told the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Locust started out like any other four-piece punk band from San Diego, California, but when the attention started to focus on their clothing, the band changed their image to suit the music rather than their style. It’s a metaphoric limbo where the dead are judged before they go to Heaven or Hell. Part of the duo’s Joker’s Cards albums, The Dark Carnival is the afterlife according to the Insane Clown Posse. Surrounding their music with violent imagery and despair, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope paint their faces like demented clowns to portray the Dark Carnival ethos and mythology. In 1989 in Detroit, Michigan, Joseph Bruce (aka Violent J) and Joseph Utsler (aka Shaggy 2 Dope) formed the hip-hop horror duo Insane Clown Posse. It's a way for us to kind of crawl inside it and be able to use it.” 3. It's a way for us to become unconscious of who we are and what we do outside of music. In 2002, vocalist Corey Taylor said of their masks, “it's our way of becoming more intimate with the music. Throughout the years, several of their masks have changed to show the passage of time. Part of the reason for Slipknot’s early success is attributed to their very attention grabbing masks.Įach member of the heavy metal band wears a unique mask that corresponds to his personality. Their self-titled debut album was a commercial and critical success, as it peaked in the top 50 of the Billboard Top 200 in 1999. Slipknot is a Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa that formed in 1995. Over the duration of the band’s lifetime, The Residents have released nearly 40 albums of avant-garde music and various multimedia collections. The members of the band met in high school in Shreveport, Louisiana and later migrated to San Francisco, California, and choose to stay hidden under eyeball masks and top hats because they want audiences to focus on their pop deconstructionist music rather than their image. Over a span of 44 years, the art collective known as The Residents has kept their identities shrouded in mystery. So you guys would come out and play just a few notes, but crushingly heavy.If you’re the type of artist that cares more about the art than the money and fame, then hiding your identity is the best way to keep your audience’s attention on the art rather than the superficial. You don't need loads of notes to be heavy. Mick: "One thing that I think is a huge credit to you guys is that the heaviest shit isn't necessarily the simplest, but it's not verbose. Slipknot admire Korn's chord progressions: Randy Rhoads would have a lyrical, singing beauty in every one of his solos." I always want to know, 'What's Corey doing in this?' because you've gotta grab a phrase, a melody. "And that's what I've learned since then: if it doesn't advance the song or have some sort of reference to it lyrically, don't do it just to fucking do it. Before we did pre-production on the first record, I had a couple of leads – I had some sweep arpeggios, stuff I'd done my whole life, and it just got stripped out because 'Solos aren't cool.' I wasn't very happy, but what an amazing learning curve. Mick Thomspon on getting his solos stripped out on the first Slipknot record: In all honesty, it was too heavy for me – I wasn't a heavy, heavy guy. Head: "If Jonathan had the 'Why me?' thing – the emotional abuse and stuff – then Corey had the 'I'm gonna rip your insides out'.
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