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

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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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  (#11) Producer Ross Robinson Physically Abused The Band To Ensure Their First Record Sounded Great

  All great music producers develop a unique relationship with bands that helps them bring out the best material and performances. Some are hands on, others hang out on a couch and let whatever happens happen. Then, there's Ross Robinson, the producer of some Slipknot albums. 

  According to drummer Joey Jordinson: 

  Ross is the most intense person I’ve ever met in my life besides the nine of us. We were out for blood and Ross saw that... I would track my drums and we would all be headbanging, throwing our headphones off, punching the f*cking walls. He would take potted plants and throw them at me while I was playing and I’d have to duck them. He made [percussionist] Chris Fehn drink two gallons of water to where he was totally bloated and on the verge of throwing up just to get a mic’d mallet sound out of his stomach...

  Corey Taylor recalls:

  I’ve never screamed or sang like that in my life. Ross pushed me every day to the point where, by the end, I was literally broken completely in half and wide open and bawling and I couldn’t stop crying. I was throwing up all over the f*cking place.
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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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  (#4) The Recording Of Slipknot's Second Album Was Fueled By Substances, Depression, Hatred, And Suicidal Tendencies

  While recording Slipknot's second album, Iowa, vocalist Corey Taylor was in such a terrible place, he self-harmed during vocal takes. "I was cutting myself while recording songs in the studio. I was bleeding everywhere. I just wanted something, I didn’t care what it was." 

  While the band was recording Iowa, its manager, the now-deceased Steve Richards, was creating unnecessary tension between members. As Mick Thomson recalls:

  I should dig Steve Richards up and beat his f*cking corpse. Every once in a while I think there may be a God that put a cyst on his brainstem and caused him to be a f*ckin’ zombie. The dude just stepped into our lives and tried to cause rifts between band members...

  Clown recalls similarly depressing memories about making the record:

  It was a disaster because the world got in. Drugs, women, just listening to, 'You guys are gonna be huge.' Everybody wants our money. So I hate the album, but it is brutality at its finest. People are like, “Do another Iowa.” And I’m like [extends middle finger], 'Sit on this! 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 felt really isolated because I couldn’t be with her. So out of the sadness of not being together, there’s that frustration and anger, too, that she’s taking care of three kids and we’re being lied to about money and we’re still broke. I was just anti-everyone in the band, coming for everyone in the band.
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  (#12) DJ Sid Wilson Got Into The Band By Attacking Clown Onstage

  If you want to be in a band like Slipknot, with its pack mentality, it makes sense you would have to be jumped in.

  That's what happened to Sid Wilson, the group's DJ. As he explained:  

  They liked what I was doing but they were worried what metal fans were gonna think of Slipknot having a DJ. But I quickly sold them on the idea. I went to their next show as a fan. I knew that during 'Tattered & Torn,' Clown would go into the pit and wrap kids up with the microphone cord and drag them across the floor. People would usually run when they saw him coming, but at that show, I saw him and instinctively went for it.

  He was thinking, I’m gonna show this motherf*cking new Jack what’s up with our band. So he came after me... I grabbed him by the head while he was still on the stage. I counted to five and headbutted him on six, which is his number... It almost knocked him out.

  He went back to Joey and said, 'I don’t care what anybody in the f*cking band says, that dude’s in.' From the moment I joined, there was chaos. Once at practice, Clown and Joey had been arguing, and Clown literally plowed through Joey’s whole drumset and threw it clear across the practice room. I started unplugging my turntables because I was like, These are the only decks I got. Don’t f*ckin’ break them!

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