10 Bands That Never Made A Bad Album
7. Slipknot
If you were around when the nu metal scene first hit it big, you would have sworn that Slipknot was when everything would come to a screeching halt. Since we already had the more insipid bands like Limp Bizkit come through, here were guys dressed in boiler suits and turning the entire metal scene on its head with an image that was a more disturbing version of what a band like KISS would have done. This entire enterprise seemed tailor made to burn out way too quickly, but the vision that Clown had was a lot more complex than that.
After already having a heavy as hell debut, Iowa saw them getting even heavier by showing us their dark side, while also being out of their mind on drugs during the production. As soon as they found themselves at the top of the metal food chain though, they decided to switch it up one more time on Vol. III, bringing in a lot more melody that was catchy to listen to but no less disturbing behind the scenes.
From there, the band have always come together only when the time is right, trying to learn from each other and push their sound that much farther if it's for the right reasons. Even if albums like .5 The Gray Chapter feel like more reactionary projects to what they've gone through, We Are Not Your Kind still has the mission statement as they had when they started: using pain as a paintbrush.