Slipknot was good, on the Iowa album, but that's about it. And as for the masks, it was so fans would like them for their music and not what they looked like (It was the time of "He's hot so I like their music") and so they could still live their normal lives without groupies following them becuz they wern't in it for the fans, they created music for themselves and the underdogs. That backfired though, people knew them by their masks, which they thought were cool. I think they wore the masks to hide who they were so they wouldn't get made fun of for their music! xD No disrespecting the Iowa album, that was their closest to good. And the song "Sulfur"... That's decent.
...sorry 2 say... but slipknot is a very highly over-rated band... you should explore music more... you might find a band you REALLY like and that will make slipknot look like a bunch of vaginafaced retards...
"Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me."
Slipknot.. come on dude. There are better bands out there. Slipknot just ruins music in my opinion. D: