Slipknot

There are certain pop stars – your Katy Perrys, your Lady Gagas – who command a certain level of respect regardless of the quality of their music because they put on one hell of a live show. For the generation who experienced nu-metal, Slipknot are the same deal. A nine-man ensemble of fright-masked thrashers hurling percussion and bodily fluids across the arena while 13,000 hooded fans mosh about below? Who wouldn’t wanna see that?