By , Slipknot decided that every band member should wear a unique mask alongside a trademark jumpsuit. His imagination, his vision in a lot of ways has helped shaped this for so many years. Slipknot's Craig Jones in his bizarre spiked helmet mask in This would soon evolve into a spiked gimp mask.
Slipknot's Chris Fehn in His pointy-nosed Pinocchio-esque mask has been a mainstay of his entire career with Slipknot. The mask is dubbed the Liar Mask. Slipknot's Craig Jones in Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in Although all of his masks have been clown related, the percussionist has tweaked his mask more than any other Slipknot member. Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in August This mask is more 'fairground clown' than his previous guises.
Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in June This time he adopted a bloody bandage mask. Slipknot on the Grammy Awards red carpet. Sid Wilson on the far right opted for a death mask, while Shawn Crahan wore a grey mask and eye-catching pink boiler suit.
You know why? We almost all died. It was bad. There were chemicals. I was probably the worst, man. My wife was very ill during those times. I was just anti-everyone in the band, coming for everyone in the band. In an interview with Rolling Stone , Slipknot's Clown revealed that he hired his drum tech based on his ability to swallow anything.
He rolfs, re-drinks it — 'See you guys later. At the Kerrang! When band members stood to take the stage for one of these awards, they smashed their chairs on the top of their table, breaking the chairs and lots of glass. At some point during the show, the band managed to set its table on fire. Then he'd smear it all over his drums and himself and Mick's back and, I think, mine, too.
It just reeked — I was dry-heaving while we played. During the Ozzfest tour, as Slipknot was blowing up worldwide, vocalist Corey Taylor managed to shock the shock master himself, Marilyn Manson. He told Rolling Stone :. I do remember throwing up in a cup and drinking it in front of Manson and he kind of freaked out.
He didn't really know how to take it. Despite the weirdness of this scene, Taylor calls Slipknot's relationship with Manson one of mutual respect and friendly competition. When we play with him, we watch him tear it down every night, and that just makes us want to tear it down every night, too. So there's a mutual respect that goes along with that positive competition that will make for great shows no matter where we are. To me, that's the best respect that you can show a fellow artist, especially someone you really enjoy what they do.
Slipknot wanted to give something special to fans attending their inaugural two-day Knotfest, so they created a signature scent for the event: camel dung. According to percussionist Shawn Crahan the clown :.
We did the camel dung on the first Knotfest. It was awesome; it was beautiful A very distinct smell. You can't huff it, but it's got this smell. It occurred to us that if we remove ourselves from the equation and just presented a unified front, it would have a greater impact, a more artistic impact. It's really a physical manifestation of what the music is. Q: And what is the music? Jordison: Dark, very dark, but at the same time very moving and beautiful in its own way.
The members of Slipknot are known for wearing nefarious masks and jumpsuits for public appearances. Share Via. The members of Slipknot are known for wearing nefarious masks and matching jumpsuits during every public appearance. Get our Daily News Capsule Subscribe. Thank you for subscribing to our Daily News Capsule newsletter. Jordison suffers from a form of multiple sclerosis called transverse myelitis, and this nasty nerve disease caused him to "lose" the use of his legs and rendered him unable to play his instrument for months.
He eventually managed to push back the disease and regain his drumming ability, but describes the experience as something he "wouldn't wish on [his] worst enemy. Thanks to a cruel twist of fate, at least three people have reportedly died at Slipknot's live shows over the years. As Blabbermouth tells us, a year-old student from Michigan died after going into cardiac arrest while attending a Slipknot concert in NME reports that in , a concert in the band's home state of Iowa saw a year-old concertgoer suddenly collapse and, oddly, also have a fatal cardiac arrest.
According to Loudwire , the most recent incident happened in , when a year-old fan was enjoying a mosh pit at Slipknot's Knotfest concert in Tinley Park, Illinois, but took a hit and "collapsed" outside the pit.
The fallen fan started having a seizure, and the venue's lack of organization meant that staff couldn't reach the man until 15 to 25 minutes later. At that point, CPR came too late, and he ultimately passed away. Tragically, this happened mere weeks after the band had expertly defused a potentially dangerous situation during another Knotfest show in San Bernardino, California.
Canoe writes that singer Corey Taylor stopped the concert to allow medical staff to reach and treat injured fans. In , Slipknot was going through a rough patch.
As the Guardian tells us, the band had been forced to cancel several shows because drummer Joey Jordison broke his ankle, but something even worse loomed in the distant land of South Africa. In the city of Krugersdorp, a year-old student rampaged through Nic Diederich Technical High School, waving a sword and slashing at people The student killed one person and injured another two, and people soon started pointing fingers at the band.
Young people need to be informed of the effects of bad Satanic music. Slipknot initially declined to comment the incident, but as Blender via Gigwise notes, singer Corey Taylor eventually expressed his shock, and also pointed out that the band and its music can hardly be blamed for the actions of a disturbed person.
Fortunately, South African authorities agreed with the vocalist. Today, Slipknot have been around long enough that people know what to expect of them, but in , they were still relatively new kids on the block. Their most recent album was the brutal Iowa and it was easy to see them as unpredictable and shocking because, well, they were.
Maybe that's why the police linked the band to the murder committed by two metal fans from San Bernardino, California, as MTV News reports. To be fair, year-old Jason Lamar Harris and year-old Amber Rose Riley had stabbed their year-old friend more than 20 times before slitting his throat, and specifically stated that they were listening to Slipknot both before and after the deed.
According to the Press-Enterprise via Blabbermouth , they were particularly invested in the band's song "Disasterpiece," which features some rather gruesome throat slashing-themed lyrics, so maybe it's understandable that the cops arched an eyebrow. Of course, it soon transpired that the duo had been planning to kill their victim for months, and had already made one unsuccessful attempt to do it, so it's not like Slipknot hypnotized them to commit bloody crimes on a whim. Regardless of the duo's taste in music, they were both tried as adults due to the nature of their crime.
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