wah, slipknot!
started listening to them in '99 i think. ya, angsty n00b metal kid haha. loved iowa when it came out cos i thought it was so heavy and extreme that it would kill all the other pansy nu-metal bands (think slipknot were trying to transition away from nu-metal with iowa). since then i've realised that, yea, they were trying too hard on iowa, and they're not that extreme anyway.
lost interest in them over the years, subliminal verses was ok, but now i realise slipknot is just an ok metal band. great thing about them is that during the nu-metal heyday they were the gateway band for many kids (including me) to more underground/extreme bands.