Let me be clear: there’s nothing ridiculous about using Slipknot for testing your hi-fi. We’ve recommended the mask wearing, boiler-suit loving nonet before, both in our rundown of the best rock and metal songs to test your speakers and on one of our recent Now Playing rundowns of the test tracks gracing our review rooms each month.
Let’s also head off any accusations that ear bleeding metal is the only genre that I personally find worthy of your hi-fi’s attention. System of a Down notwithstanding, I’ve enthused about the heartfelt melancholy of Tom Waits’ Martha, the piratical abandon of Hans Zimmer’s Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack, and, of course, my deep affection for Björk's magnum opus, Homogenic.
