1- The band uses masks, barcodes, and numbers to identify themselves.
2- During the Mayhem Festival, Sid Wilson broke both of his heels after a poorly executed jump
3- Sid is also known as DJ Starscream, and he makes some of his own techno music
4- Slipknot played their first show on April 28, 1996 at Hairy Mary’s II in the suburbs of Des Moines.
5- Slipknot fans are known as “maggots,” which is meant as a term of endearment
6- The dreads on Corey’s mask are made out of his real hair.
7- Corey cut the word SLAYER into his arm when he was 14 before a Slayer show
8- Corey Taylor is also the lead vocalist for Stonesour.
9- The band infamously refuse to wash their clown masks throughout the course of their tour so they could always feel the tour ‘spirit’ with them
10- The band members are known by number, or by the type of mask they wear.
11- Shawn was the first member to wear a mask
12- Since its inception in 1995, there have been 13 members of Slipknot in total.
13- Slipknot is the first platinum selling band/album in Roadrunner Records history
14- Jim has had 2 masks. The first was the old guitarist’s (the leather bondage mask seen in old pictures and the cover of the album). He wore it until he made his own mask that better fit his personality (the jester mask).
15- Most of their lyrics for this album were actually based on a video game called Werewolf: The Apocalypse
16- Corey has the Japanese character for “death” tattooed on one side of his neck, and the character for “father” on the other side. This was because he never knew his father. It on the outside edges of his number which is also tattooed on his neck.
17- At a show in England, #0 jumped off a balcony at one of Slipknot’ shows and landed on a fan.
18- Craig Jones is known as the “quiet” one which you can tell from the closed zipper mouth on his mask
19- Corey Taylor used to work in a porn shop before joining Slipknot.
20- Slipknot played their first gigs at “Safaris,” next to the “World Of Christ” church.
21- At another show, Sid was lighting one of the drum heads of Chris’ set on fire, and some of the lighter fluid got on the leg of Sid’s coveralls and set him on fire.
22- Crahan: “This is the craziest thing that ever happened and itkinda bothered me for a while. We were in a foreign country, I won’tsay which one to protect this girl’s identity. She was living it likewe were living it. Her clothes looked like sewed that shit up herself,really weird material, but it was what she loved.
23- Mick Thompson Loves Cats
24- Corey, Mick, and Shawn all got tattoos from the 2000 Tattoo the Earth Tour!
25- Shawn used to be a welder, and made his own drum set ( the titanium kegs)
26- Leather straps and other modifications were made by a friend of the band.
27- The picture on the cover of “Slipknot” was taken in Shawn Crahan’s parent’s garage.
28- Crahan: “In the early days, I would get a lot of dead birds, alot of dead shit in jars, mainly birds, of course. But there was onegirl on the east coast who brought me a cow heart or a pig heart. Ijust remember her coming up and, like, smacking me in the head andthrowing this heart down and being like, ‘Can you sign this?’ “
29- in 2006 saw Slipknot win their first Grammy Award, picking up the Best Metal Performance award for the single “Before I Forget”
30- In 2008, vocalist Taylor commented on a stabbing in South Africa that Slipknot were linked to, saying: “obviously, I’m disturbed by the fact that people were hurt and someone died, as far as my responsibility for that goes, it stops there, because I know our message is actually very positive.” He also furthered his point by saying: “there are always going to be mental disorders and people who cause violence for no other reason than the fact that they’re fucked up and lost.”
31- “The Negative One” was nominated for the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.
Sources
https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/8_facts_about_slipknot-68055
http://www.songfacts.com/facts-slipknot.php
https://rwrant.co.za/10-facts-slipknot/
http://ppcorn.com/us/slipknot-15-interesting-facts-you-didnt-know/
http://www.angelfire.com/band2/slipknot012345678/facts.html
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