Maybe outside of Linkin Park, Slipknot were the fastest-rising force of the nu metal era. Their anarchic concerts during the 1999 Ozzfest built nationwide hype, which was consolidated when their debut album reached the top of two separate US charts later that year.
Ever since, other bands have been chasing the Iowans’ tail, thirsting for just a drop of their game-changing aesthetic and mainstream relevance. Below we’ve listed the names that have done it best. From Stone Sour to such newcomers as Memorrhage, these are times where artists who weren’t Slipknot wrote a badass Slipknot song.
