Underoath Respect Slipknot, Despite Conflicting Messages
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During a Halloween show in New Jersey, Underoath took the stage dressed like Slipknot and opened the show with 'Duality'. "Our manager called their management, and they sent us some masks and said all they wanted was some pictures," guitarist and songwriter Timothy McTague recalled in an interview with MTV News. "We all had jumpsuits with their numbers spray-painted on them. It was funny as crap. Both of our singers love Slipknot. There's a lot of respect there, for sure." Asked why, considering Slipknot's work includes tales of serial killers, followers of black magic and other evildoer, McTague said, "I feel like there are two ways to be satanic. You have bands like Atreyu, who are dark and twisted and have pentagrams and say they believe in vampires and all this evil stuff. But at the end of the day, those guys are just doing theater. We've toured with them several times, and there's no strife there. I feel bands like them and Slipknot don't truly believe in what they're talking about. People who are truly satanic are different, and when they step into a church everything goes weird. But if I started talking to you five minutes ago and I thought you were just a dude, and now you tell me you're a satanic dude, I'm not going to think of you any differently. I love everyone for what they do, and if someone wants to have an adult conversation about doctrinal beliefs or spiritual warfare, that's fine. We'll talk to anybody."
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113 Comments on "Underoath Talk About Slipknot and Satanism"
9. writes:
Okay, seriously, what's the point of commenting on what bands you think suck or ones that you deem worthy of your eardrums? Nobody cares!
And truly, there are very few bands who have satanic lyrics that actually mean them. It's all for attention, and nothing more.
11. writes:
you want satanic? listen to norwegian black metal. your daily dose of true chaos and gospels from below. they even have church burnings!
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-just a joke but if you truly believe in satan and you make good music, i can respect that.-
12. writes:
ok gay spiritual underoath thinks they're cool for doing that, it's just a sign of stupidity, i think they need to think about what they said "slipknot doesnt know what they are talking about" sure whatever you say you gay f***ing emo fags from underoath go slit your wrist and eat f***ing sh**, slipknot isnt the best band in the world but im sure they know what they are doing, check out real metal www.myspace.com/demonsinme
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19. writes:
Wow...Underoath...what a bunch of f***ING TOOLS.
'I feel bands like them and Slipknot don't truly believe in what they're talking about.'
How the bloody f***in hell would these little f***ing screamo c***suckers know whether or not Slipknot believe in what they say... OF COURSE THEY DO. And they're in no way satanic. Any true Slipknot fan would know that. Which mean those f***s from Underoath aren't really fans. Underoath really just need to jump into a pit of spikes, bleed and die.
As Dani Filth said, "There's nothing wrong with human sacrifices. It's about time the earth was culled to make way for people with more intelligence; it's just unfortunate that it's illegal." Somebody needs to sacrifice Underoath.
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Look alot of bands do shock-value sh** to boost their popularity...Rammstein's frontman f***s groupies ON STAGE. Manson (Whose music is OBVIOUSLY influenced by Rammstein) becomes the minister of the Church of Satan. Slipknot does sh** like "the heretic anthem"....the whole star thing...all that sh**....Mushroomhead has a lyric in BWOMP "If it was up to me I'd free Charles Manson"...Dimmu Borgir is so obviously f***ing Satanic, with their songs about Satan reigning on earth. Behemoth (I LOVE BEHEMOTH \m/ ) do songs about how we all are our own gods. Arch Enemy's RAVENOUS is about blood/general human acrifice...CoF is all vampiric and sh**. Ozzy is "the prince of f***ing darkness"...Even Eminem did rap about raping and killing his mother and wife. But look, these people have families, wives, kids, the works, so if they were anything like their stage personas, they'd be UNDER f***ing prisons/executed for all kinds of murders/assisted suicides/human sacrifices/rapes....And that sh** would be publicized BIG TIME since they're celebrities doing this sh**! And Metal would almost be banned if these guys were really into that sh**...But come on, these screamo/emo bastards are once again, only stating the obvious like its some actual news (Much like they do when they bring up that life sucks and that there are actually women out there that will f*** you over...NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN). That music artists do shock-value sh** to help boost their recognition...They've been doing it since the Rolling Stones (with the urban myth that Keith Richards got all his blood drained out and replaced with someone else's) and Led Zeppelin (With the alleged "shark" they got a groupie to shove in her p***y)...And KISS (Who were the first ones to make shock-value an art...With Gene Simmons' tongue, and the "blood" he'd regurgitate on stage, as well as the "fire-breathing")...Thats become part of the game...Just live with it...
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Who f***ing cares if some emo band likes SLipknot just because they're emo does not mean they've never heard metal before dumb a$$ motherf***ers and who cares who is satanic or not and by the way God loves all to the person that said that God hates fags because if you look up a while back they took out the part of the bible that said people can be gay so quit f***ing fag bashing b****
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Slipknot sucks! Atrayu Sucks! Underoath Sucks! All these bands lack any form of true satanism. Much respect to Joey #1 of Slipknot. He's a kick a$$ drummer and a talented song writer. He need's to leave that circus act behind and team up with some real metal song writers. The song on the roadrunner united with Glenn Benton was very impressing! In my opinion, Joey can do some major damage without the 8 other members of Slipknot. Their holding him back . Slipknot is not satanic! Maybe to clueless 15 year old straight edge karate kids.
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42. writes:
blah blah blah youre all a bunch of whiney little b****es just shut the f*** up already...slipknot arent satanic and i have no f***ing clue who underoath are but they sound like they dont know what theyre talking about...quit bashing bands you dont like cos for every one of you whiney little attention whores that claims to hate slipknot there are about 20 people who love them so SHUT THE f*** ALREADY!!!! im tired of little whiney b****es that have nothing better to do than whinge and cry about how much they hate a band..KEEP IT TO YOUR f***ING SELVES...and STOP GOING ON SLIPKNOT FORUMS I YOU f***ING HATE THEM SO MUCH!!!!!
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43. writes:
I found this on MTV.com, at the location where the full article was posted: "Hopefully God will continue to use us to shine his light in a dark place." — Underoath's Timothy McTague. I'm going to go listen to some Mayhem now, and thank f*** that this stupid f***ing light doesn't shine on the music I listen too. I think a black metal guitarist said it best when he stated, "People hate Christians because they're always trying to spread the word." I'm sure most of you don't take kindly to being told your favorite band sucks, or that you should "worship" "this band". Interesting how things work.
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lonelymaggot666, thank you for the compliment!
And since my comment went ignored with the debate of "who sucks" (Which is just stupid and immature) here's my thought again on this...
Look alot of bands do shock-value sh** to boost their popularity...Rammstein's frontman f***s groupies ON STAGE. Manson (Whose music is OBVIOUSLY influenced by Rammstein) becomes the minister of the Church of Satan. Slipknot does sh** like "the heretic anthem"....the whole star thing...all that sh**....Mushroomhead has a lyric in BWOMP "If it was up to me I'd free Charles Manson"...Dimmu Borgir is so obviously f***ing Satanic, with their songs about Satan reigning on earth. Behemoth (I LOVE BEHEMOTH \m/ ) do songs about how we all are our own gods. Arch Enemy's RAVENOUS is about blood/general human acrifice...CoF is all vampiric and sh**. Ozzy is "the prince of f***ing darkness"...Even Eminem did rap about raping and killing his mother and wife. But look, these people have families, wives, kids, the works, so if they were anything like their stage personas, they'd be UNDER f***ing prisons/executed for all kinds of murders/assisted suicides/human sacrifices/rapes....And that sh** would be publicized BIG TIME since they're celebrities doing this sh**! And Metal would almost be banned if these guys were really into that sh**...But come on, these screamo/emo bastards are once again, only stating the obvious like its some actual news (Much like they do when they bring up that life sucks and that there are actually women out there that will f*** you over...NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN). That music artists do shock-value sh** to help boost their recognition...They've been doing it since the Rolling Stones (with the urban myth that Keith Richards got all his blood drained out and replaced with someone else's) and Led Zeppelin (With the alleged "shark" they got a groupie to shove in her p***y)...And KISS (Who were the first ones to make shock-value an art...With Gene Simmons' tongue, and the "blood" he'd regurgitate on stage, as well as the "fire-breathing")...Thats become part of the game...Just live with it...
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50. writes:
no one in here even reializes, that ,underoath, is a christian, band, they, belive ,in ,god, and ,prasie his name so ,all of you ,guys ,who ,say underoath sucks, a ,d*** and o all ,this is just your idiots all of you ,and, i think you, should be shot with a frozen, paintball, so thats what i have, to ,say so ,yea
51. writes:
hey me my o me um slipknot totaly dosent suck you suck and if you dont even like the band why the hell are you lookin up sh** about the band hum i dont know but i bet we all know who dose and oh yeah i wonder why underoath dosent show any satinisum is it maybe cuz there a christan band hum yeah i think that just may be it but i do agree none of the 3 bands show satinisum cuz well there not satanic bands but if you wanna know what band is that would be dimmu borgir there awsome but leys not worrie about that so lets see i totallt agree about the whole joey thing hes one sic f***er and i to love his work but he so shouldnt leave slipknot cuz it just wouldnt be the same hes been there since the begining so yeah
and underoathfan im with you all the way im a non beliver but still a fan you might find that weird but oh well there a great band no matter what there belifes are gosh do all these other morons know any thin about the music they listen to GODDAMN sorry but they learn the damn facts be for you say sh** about bands they know nothing about ok so that is all for me im sorry if i afended any of you l8er bithches
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54. writes:
HEY DUMBASS SLIPKNOT FANS YOU NEED TO GROW UP AND STOP WHINNING ABOUT HOW SLIPc*** f***ING ROCKS AND THERE THE ONLY GOOD BAND ALIVE listen to all music before bashing a band that only the emo fags claim as emo. the rest of us underoath listeners consider them metal. SO IN CONCLUSION SHUT THE f*** UP SLIPKNOT FANS AND GROW A d*** AND GET A LIFE. AND STOP TURNING EVRYTHING THAT TALKS ABOUT SLIPKNOT INTO A SLIPKNOT f***ING ROCKS FEST.
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(38/55) by me on Jan 7, 2006 @ 3:50 AM ET | IP Logged
Slipknot sucks! Atrayu Sucks! Underoath Sucks! All these bands lack any form of true satanism. Much respect to Joey #1 of Slipknot. He's a kick a$$ drummer and a talented song writer. He need's to leave that circus act behind and team up with some real metal song writers. The song on the roadrunner united with Glenn Benton was very impressing! In my opinion, Joey can do some major damage without the 8 other members of Slipknot. Their holding him back . Slipknot is not satanic! Maybe to clueless 15 year old straight edge karate kids.
haja
^^^ well that just about sums up how f***in stupid you are. the art of slam dancing, im not f***ing straight edge at all, but many like me do it and just because underoath says stupid sh** it doesnt mean all other christian or similar bands suck like they do (cause honestly they sound like fags). i listen to everything from poison the well to the black dahlia murder. dont judge so quickly mate, and just because satan is included in a song doesnt make it a song to idolize, and im sure most people with half a bloody brain know that slipknot is not full blown satanic. yeah songs that are of a dark nature are pretty good but not all bands write the same way. so while you have dimmu borgir writing pretty solid material overall, on the other hand you have people like cradle of filth trying too hard to be dark and still have any depth to their music and its not working.
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56. writes:
i agree with u rising end joey should leave them but one of there guitarists (dont no the name) is pretty good and he should take him with him and find a sweet a$$ shredder atleast a decent bassist and a good vocalist and no f***in djs and sh** either 5 or 4 members
57. writes:
rotfl at #38
i laugh at dumbasses like dat.
how u gonna say those bands lack satanism.
-_-
narrow minded dumbass.
you lack taste of music is you believe that those bands suck just because theyre not death metal.
dumbass.
atreyu doesnt suck. they have some nice riffs for a emocore band.
slipknot doesnt such either. they have all the hype u need.
underoath is just ok. but they dont suck.
zao kicks ass.
in flames kicks ass.
62. writes:
who the f*** do you fa**ots think you are kiss,pantera,ozzy,rob zombie, and slipknot can kick slayer's and korn's asses any day of the f***ing week I mean you sifilating ballsacks need real music I mean I'm 14 and I know what is good rock and whats just an imitation and slipknot,korn,slayer,and underoath ARE NOT SATANIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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71. writes:
posts 10, 20 (/45), and 87 actually know what they're talking about - especially 45 and 87.
as for satanism, i just dont care.
frankly, i think it's great to see bands sharing their music and image so freely, it shows a lot of maturity and wisdom. also, it's about time a band broke the barrier between themselves and outsiders (ie those not in the band); "if someone wants to have an adult conversation about doctrinal beliefs or spiritual warfare, that's fine. We'll talk to anybody." - i think that's really excellent. i'd buy their albums just to support them for having that frame of mind, but i'm strapped for cash. bloody uni.
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78. writes:
Pantera IS THE BEST METAL BAND EVER. FCKING PERIOD( i know, no relevance in this post) SO SHUT THE f*** UP U POSERS. AND I HOPE U ALL GO TO HEAVEN. u fcks think ur so self rightous go f*** off. unles ur randy rhodes on the guitar, dont judge other bands music.
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95. writes:
you are all a bunch of queers......i just read a bunch of the above posts.......underoath may not be my favorite band by any means, but that is humorous especially because their friends with the slipknot guys. Saying glen benton and deicide are like marilyn manson is the biggest bunch of moronic s h i t ive ever heard. just listen to music that you like and everybody shut the f u c k up. Christ. (or should i say Satan)......who gives a f u c k
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107. writes:
hey Death bringer why cant you delete all those stupid threads. like korn, atreyu, and any other mainstream loser band. that will solve your problems.
hence the word "underground" none mainstream metal bands that are good but need to be noticed. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALSO DEATH TO FALSE METAL!!!! note 1
108. writes:
er this place isn't even underground. for starters why is there an article of slipknot and underoath? who the hell is underoath. well Key to Nothing (#97) has the right idea.. Slayer definitely got really bad after South of Heaven. God hates us all isn't even good. all the songs sound the same basically. i'm sure most of these users are just young children under 15 who only know of MTV and think Roadrunner is UNDERGROUND. well debating metal is just stupid if you're gonna talk about Slipknot,korn and atreyu. NONE OF THEM ARE EVEN METAL. and this satan stuff. Slipknot is not even satanic no one is really satanic unless you want the goat rituals of norwegian black metal like gorgoroth oh and we can't forget the mighty Emperor although this whole idea of Satan is basically just accepting the fact that God does exist. so why would someone do that? choose desolation over salvation? obviously nihilism is far more superior.
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109. writes:
that would help war ensemble but if u take out the mainstream bands u take out metallica, i no they sold out but they used to be good unlike the other mainstream bands on this site, and people r still waitin for metallica to finally make another good album most people say its never gonna happen but ive still got my hopes up that lars and them will make the right decison
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1. me,my-o-me! writes:
Slipknot sucks! Atrayu Sucks! Underoath Sucks! All these bands lack any form of true satanism. Much respect to Joey #1 of Slipknot. He's a kick a$$ drummer and a talented song writer. He need's to leave that circus act behind and team up with some real metal song writers. The song on the roadrunner united with Glenn Benton was very impressing! In my opinion, Joey can do some major damage without the 8 other members of Slipknot. Their holding him back . Slipknot is not satanic! Maybe to clueless 15 year old straight edge karate kids.