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These = Shit: A Look Back At The Days Of Homemade Slipknot Costumes

Dressing up to scare your mom was big in the noughties.

Metal has always been a genre that inspires fierce dedication, inspiring young men across the world to do everything from getting an "RIP Dimebag" sticker for their pickup, to burning churches. But even amongst the obsessive fans, Slipknot fans, or "maggots" (as they and nobody else call them) stuck out from the crowd. They were a loyal bunch, and although their fandom is waning slightly in the post-Skrillex era (a man who doesn't need a mask to scare the intelligenisa shitless), there are still online communities debating lyrical interpretations of "Psychosocial."

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