no slipknot doesnt!!!! 9 dudes in a band and they still suck. umm, and about beats......there are only a certain amount you can have so thats why some stuff sounds the same. and have you not heard some stuff on american idiot cd like jesus of suburbia and give me novacaine. and i know you had to have heard bouldevard of broken dreams. green day brought the china and crash-ride sounds into punk and now people like fall out boy and panic at the disco are trying to have those sounds