10 Little-Known Facts About Slipknot
Get our list of ten things you (probably) didn’t know about Slipknot’s self-titled album. You can delve further into the crazy, carnage-fuelled world of Slipknot’s self-titled masterpiece in this month’s issue of Metal Hammer – on sale now!
1. There have been 13 members in the various incarnations of Slipknot including a bloke who dressed as a baby. History doesn’t recall who changed his diapers.
2. Slipknot played their first official gig on April 4 1996 at the Safari in Des Moines, Iowa. Given that Clown owns the bar we imagine they got a decent soundcheck.
3. The newest member of Slipknot is guitarist Jim Root who joined after they had already started recording their debut album. He replaced Josh Brainard who would like to know if you want fries with that. Probably.
4. It took Slipknot three days to drive 1,466 miles from Iowa to the Indigo Ranch recording studio in Malibu, California. Which is 488.666 miles per day. When they arrived they spent several hours stuck in LA traffic, which moves slightly faster than the speed of smell.
5. Slipknot was the first album ever to go platinum on Roadrunner records. Ironically Roadrunner had passed on the band with their previous singer Anders Colsefini, who’s also keen to know if you’d like any potato based products. We suspect.
6. The voice sampled at the start of Slipknot is Corey Hurst, a then 19-year-old girl who was busted for having a joint and ended up being a cell mate to Manson Family member Susan Atkins. Seems a bit harsh for a ‘herbal woodbine’.
7. Producer Ross Robinson was so impressed with Slipknot that he offered to produce them with or without label backing and he even paid for their food while they were recording. He did throw plants at them too, mind.
8. Before embarking on Ozzfest 99 frontman Corey Taylor blew out his vocal chords and was forbidden to speak for more than half an hour a day. He used up his half an hour on stage and carried a pen and paper for the whole tour.
9. Before settling on today’s line up Shawan Crahan was the drummer before moving to percussion, Craig Jones was guitarist before moving to samples and Chris Fehn wanted to be Joey Jordison’s drum roadie, while both Corey Taylor and Jim Root moved over from Stone Sour. It’s like musical chairs with exploding chairs.
10. Slipknot’s debut single Wait And Bleed was voted 36th greatest metal song of all time by VH1. If you add 3 and 6 you get 9, the number of members of Slipknot! Coincidence? Well, probably now you mention it.
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true fact slipknot didnt wear boiler suits or masks until roadrunner records got turned down by mushroomhead so they wanted to find a band that would do that style making slipknot puppets basically
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Not a true fact. Check your facts before opening your mouth.
lol interesting stuff
i love learning about this band they are so mysterious and awsome
11) They are now shoved down our throats so much that they are now boring as fuck.
For godssake MH, JUST GIVE US A BREAK FROM THEM! We KNOW they’ve re-released Slipknot, but please stop commenting on every little thing they do! This isn’t K******!
Slipknot barely make Kerrang anymore. They aren’t emo enough. Kerrang sucks!!! MCR? HIM? Stinkin Park? No thanks. The clue is in the name METAL Hammer.
And slipknot DID wear masks before RR came knocking “King of Heavy Metal”/upset mushroon head fan/possibly even Pig Benis. (MH member). You can now even find ‘rare’ clips of it on youtube these days. Mushroom head sucked!!! Puppets my ass! They turned down Sony/Epic you know! Or maybe EMI. I forget.
Get you facts straight indeed!
You can read most of this in their biography. Speaking of which, i would like a new one to come out soon. Please!!! The only thing on that list i didnt know was who did the vocal sample on the opening track. I thought it was Corey. Taylor that is.
your not a really good king of metal if you don’t know your facts do you??
I think theres a reason these facts are little known; they’re not very interesting. I was hoping for something more surprising like Shawan Crahan actually used to be a goat called Steve or Corey Taylor has night vision sight through his nipples or Joey Jordison’s mask is actually his real face and it simply mutates to look slightly different everytime Slipknot release a new album………ok so the last one is a little far-fetched but if your going to publish facts about bands please make them more………y’know!
knew half them already apart from the one with corey hurst as the lead singer :s
This is boring,,,,,,,,
A true fact about Slipknot , Joey Jordison has a dvd collection that contains every episode of Dallas that guy is freeking JR mad.
why the fuck aint deathstars bin in the magazine for ages….i loves those dudes there as crazy as SHIT they make slipknot look normal…..
Deathstars suck man knot is twenty times better corey is the best singer ever! the only band remotely close is killswitch engage! the knots 5th album will be the best one since subliminal verses vol 3 the best songs from knot is duality,child of burning time,til we die,wait N bleed, and eyeless maggot 4eva! stay (sic)