Random Most Metal Stories About The Members Of Slipknot (14 items)

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  (#1) Vocalist Corey Taylor OD'd When He Was 15 And His Friends Tossed Him In A Dumpster

  In various interviews, Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor has described his time living in a trailer park near Waterloo, IA, in a way that brings to mind Harmony Korine's Gummo, but with more dumpsters:

  At a place like that, there's only two things to do, really - you take drugs, and you f*ck. Crank was just starting, and I was a total speed freak and really into coke. I remember waking up one morning in a dumpster. And, instead of taking me to a hospital, they took me somewhere and dumped me in a trash can, thinking I was dead. So I come to, I've got no shoes on, I've got no T-shirt, I've got blood on my face. I'm 12 miles from my house, and I proceeded to walk from there. The whole way home. I was like, I've gotta get out of here.

   
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  (#10) Clown Almost Drowned Partaking In Ritual Self-Harm He Likens To Blood Letting

  Even if you've never heard Slipknot's music, you've no doubt seen pictures of them, and can probably surmise they get nuts on stage. 

  One of the band's wildest stage stunts almost took the life percussionist Shawn Crahan, more commonly known as Clown: 

  I went headfirst into this barrel on Ozzfest and I didn’t realize it was half full of water. I got stuck in that thing for about 35 seconds and I remember thinking, ‘You’ve done it, you f*cking went somewhere you shouldn’t have gone and now it’s going to get you.’ Then I got pushed over, came out of the bin and I was spitting out water. It was pretty serious dude.

  From that day on I realized that, if I was going to go into that zone, I had to at least pick my battles. At first, though, I didn’t care about the harm I was doing myself, in fact personal harm was invited. It felt good; it was like blood letting.
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  (#8) A Competitive Relationship With Marilyn Manson Led To Corey Taylor Drinking His Own Vomit

  During the Ozzfest 2001 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. And then he ran into our dressing room in tighty-whitey underwear and kind of danced for us and kind of ran back out, and we were like, 'What the f*ck just happened?'

  Despite the weirdness of this scene, Taylor calls Slipknot's relationship with Manson one of mutual respect and friendly competition.

  We don't really try to f*ck with each other, and when we do, it gets really weird," he continues with a laugh. "At the same time, there's a positive competition there that we both respond to. 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.
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  (#13) Bassist Paul Gray And Guitarist Jim Root Once Jump Off Stage To Fight Fans Of A Rival Masked Metal Band

  Before his passing from an overdose, bassist Paul Gray discussed how he and guitarist Jim Root fought a couple of Mushroomheads (fans of metal band Mushroomhead, the members of which also wore masks and jumpsuits) at one of their shows.

  He told Revolver Magazine: 

  Back in the day, we had a problem with this band from Cleveland called Mushroomhead. They had masks, too. And when we came to Cleveland, we were ready for some sh*t. And there were about 20 kids in the crowd that were Mushroomhead fans that were whipping batteries at us.

  Me and Jim jumped offstage and took our masks off and started swinging at people at the end of one song. When we were done with that set, everything came off and we went straight through the crowd to try to find those people and we ended up finding those dudes and we threw down. One of the guys in our crew got maced by the cops and arrested.

   
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  (#2) Guitarist Mick Thomson Had A Public, Drunken Knife Fight With His Brother

  Mick Thomson, the gargantuan guitar player (who's 6'4") otherwise known as #7, is not someone that most people would want to get into a physical altercation with. In 2015, he and his brother got into a knife fight on the front lawn of a residence in Clive, IA. When cops showed up, they found the intoxicated guitarist covered in non-life threatening, but nonetheless serious, stab wounds.

  The brothers refused to press charges against one another but were charged with disorderly conduct. 
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  (#5) Clown Hired A Drum Tech Because The Guy Drank Urine, Puked It Up, And Drank It Again

  In an interview with Rolling Stone, Slipknot's Clown revealed that he hired his drum tech based on his ability to swallow anything. "I told him, 'Drink this piss,' He's like, 'How much?' I give him a hundred bucks, he downs the piss.

  Then he's like, 'Another $75 to puke and re-drink it?' Sure. He rolfs, re-drinks it — 'See you guys later.' That's why he works for Clown."

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