Why don't more bands wear masks?

>spooky

>intimidating

>stylish

>anonymity

>unique personas

>easily identifiable

It's perfect for metal bands. I don't get why it never caught on.

You forgot gay and corny

>>115920946 (OP)

see>>115920966

Uncomfortable as fuck for performing

>>115920946 (OP)

It’s catching on for popular well-produced black metal like Grima, Gaerea, Cult of Fire, etc etc. Some alt rock groups like Sleep Token are doing it now.

>>115920946 (OP)

It's hard to make it unique, look at Mudvayne, they looked like fucking idiots and I'm sure they all got hate for being Slipknot copy cats even though they were wearing makeup not masks. 



Even Slipknot, the band best known for their look besides Kiss, didn't even likely come up with their own stage get up. This picture of Mr. Bungle from 1995 (the year Slipknot formed) always makes me laugh because they did the creepy masks and jump suits as an experimental metal band. They even had a clown...



There is such thing as parallel thinking I just find it funny because Mr. Bungle no doubt influenced Slipknot.

>So the minute you put this mask on, first of all, it hurts; second of all, it's heavy; third of all, it's hard to breathe in. But then when you go on stage, you kind of forget that you're wearing it. It's pretty crazy."

Even Corey hates it. He tried pulling the whole "the mask lets me be who I am inside" shit but when's the last time Corey had an unexpressed thought that he kept inside?

But actually what does kinda make sense is when he talked about how if every member of the band wears a mask, the band becomes more unified like an organism, because the members stop worrying about how they're perceived by other people

>>115920946 (OP)

masks are for karens now

>>115920946 (OP)

sex appeal is 90% of a band's marketability. wanting to fuck the band members has carried submediocre acts to great financial success that wearing a mask would easily kneecap. slipknot isn't that much of an outlier because the singer has a sexy voice.

>sex appeal is 90% of a band's marketability

That rarely applies to metal unless it's some flash-in-the-pan genre like glam metal or metalcore

>>115920946 (OP)

It's corny as fuck

>>115920946 (OP)

A lot of bands tried it or something similar to it around that time, pretty much all of them flopped because most of them were just sloppy rip-offs of Korn and Slipknot.

>glam metal

>flash in the pan

Wow, genre that sold half a billion albums and was popular like for 10 years is a flash in the pan LOL

>being this assmad about an innocuous comment 

That aquanet must've seeped into your brain.

>>115920946 (OP)

>spooky

nope

>intimidating

not even a little

>stylish

absolutely not

>unique personas

not really

>easily identifiable

wrong

Yes.

>>115920946 (OP)

Because it looks gay, and Slipknot are the gayest "metal" band out there.
