Slipknot with Coheed and Cambria and Trivium
Trivium
On October 10th, Trivium will release their third album The Crusade, the follow up to Ascendancy, their Roadrunner Records debut album (and Kerrang's Album of The Year 2005), The Crusade captures a band on a mission, reflecting their rise from virtual unknown to playing the main stage at one of the biggest rock festivals in the world (Download, UK) in a mere two years. Trivium who have played a staggering 350 shows in that time. The Crusade is an album full of tight, intricate and instantly memorable songs that feature awe-inspiring musicianship from all four members of the band.
SLIPKNOT
Slipknot's mix of grinding, post-Korn alternative metal, Marilyn Manson-esque neo-shock rock, and rap-metal helped make them one of the most popular bands in the so-called nu-metal explosion of the late '90s. But even more helpful was their theatrical, attention-grabbing image: the band always performed in identical industrial jump suits and homemade Halloween masks, and added to its mysterious anonymity by adopting the numbers zero through eight as stage aliases.