The nine-member hard-core metal outfit, Slipknot, formed in the self-proclaimed "middle of nowhere" Des Moines, Iowa in 1995. Asserting that they are not about names or faces, they adopted the numbers 0-8 as stage names and don industrial coveralls, and surrealistic homemade masks during their shows. What's more, when the band members take the stage in these masks (and matching, sometimes faux-blood-stained jumpsuits), they deliver the stuff of modern-day metal legends: relentlessly full-throttle aggression, chaotic and frightening enough to generate as many nightmares as Gene Simmons' blood-spewing antics did in the '70s.
