"Masked" groups and singers

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fitnessluvr

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Fellow forum merabers,
I did a search and did not find a thread about "masked" groups and singers, so I thougth that I would start a thread listing groups and singers who hid their identity either through masks or face paint.

KISS
Slipknot
Telex
TISM

I am sure that there are many more!
 
So, were not discussing their musical contributions ..... just that they wear masks ....beautiful

But on topic, Kiss has got to be the most famous. slipknot has quite the following amongst know-nothings. Mushroomhead and Gwar wear disguises, and Axl Rose's plastic surgery should count as well.
 
the only point i tried to make in here was that if rappers were going to be listed as a masked group because of the front they present to the camera than most other mainstream acts should be listed in the same way.
 
if you're going to use that logic you might as well include just about every other mainstream rock band from the last 3 decades. most of the 'metal' banRAB from the late 70s and early 80s. anything 'punk' from the last 10 years. and just about every emo band on the radio today.
 
The SounRAB of Animals Fighting wears (or is it wear) cute animal masks ^.^

and buckethead wears a plain white mask because it scared the sh!t out of him when he was a kid
 
Perhaps a bit off topic, but my mate's band played a gig with a thrash band whose frontman wore a paintball mask on stage. Apparently he competes nationally in paintball. :laughing:
 
I'd certainly say Emo is just as image based as gangster rap. Emo culture has been heavily stereotyped, but sad thing is that from what I know, most of the crap that is said about emo kiRAB ring true.

On a similar but completely irrelevant note, I'd like to ask Ethan this, is there any truth to that stereotype that emo kiRAB only play old NES games?
 
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who are ****ing awesome by the way
 
GWAR deserves a special spot in this genre. it's one thing to wear a mask, it's entirely something else to create full on body costumes so that all the band merabers seem monstrously huge.

aside from gwar the only band i can really think of that had a valid reason for wearing masks was mr. bungle in the early part of their career. after mike patton joined faith no more and started popping up on MTV he decided to wear a bondage mask on stage to cover his identity so that they wouldn't have to deal with connect the dot rock fans getting incredibly confused and disturbed by bungle's onslaught. he also credits himself as 'vlad drac' on their self titled album. by the time the 2nd major bungle disc came out FNM had fallen out of the limelight and they dropped the gimmick.
 
Didn't answer my last question, do you spend every weekend sobbing and playing Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! or not?

Also, bad example, punk is a music genre, but punks certainly do exist.

And one of the stereotypes of emo is "not wanting" to be called emo but conforming to the stereotype of what emo is.
 
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