Retro fridays and the slipknot debut album

This blog post was inspired by a girl a saw a few days ago. She was around 14-17 and had bluish hair and a black slipknot sweater with a big S on the back. It brought me back a lot of nostalgia and she was born around/after their peak but the band still hits home with her. In a nutshell that best describes slipknot, a band with songs and an image perfectly geared for angsty teens. In the early 90's nirvana and a lot of alt bands were that music that catered to the teenage crowd, well in the late late 90's and early 00's slipknot was that band

Although it is known as slipknot's  debut album(it's untitled and called slipknot) their actual debut is eat mate feed kill but this follow up is the major label bombshell dropper, the nevermind of slipknot if you will. I was there when it came out and I was.........made fun of for not thinking slipknot was the best thing ever and for not hating my parents. This album was released in the prime of nu metal and expanded the genre onto new territory, if you never heard it well a lot of the songs are cookie monster growling. The band itself is weird in that they had 9 members and they all wore masks and had a barcode on the back of their jackets. The album had such hits such as surfacing(also the video captures peak slipknot well and their fans) wait and bleed(the most mainstream song) and spit it out. Once they went tour they were a hit and commanded huge crowds especially at ozzfest. Kids and teens everywhere went nuts for slipknot shirts and the S logo was a huge seller. It was on every shirt for maximum cool effect and seeing that girl's jacket give me that nostalgia. Just like how slipknot attracted angsty teens in the early 00's, the music still appeals to today's teenagers