Linkin Park is a good band but i'm really only a fan of hybrid theory and songs here and there. they are a little too poppy kinda i dont know how to explain it but not really the same sound i liked them for in hybrid theory. Red has some good lyrics for sure
never really was interested in slipknot, they're more on the darker side of METAL not really that i don't have as much interest in. the most general genres of what i like are djent, post ****, and metalcore. i occasionally will listen to my deathcore/death metal artists on my ipod though. the hardest band i listen to is probably beyond creation or chelsea grin