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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#7) In The Early Days, Clown Kept His Own Excrement In Snapple Bottles And Rubbed It On Himself And His Bandmates

  According to guitarist Jim Root, on a 1999 European tour, Shawn Crahan would:

  ... put his sh*t in, like, a Snapple bottle and leave it on the speaker during the set. 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.

   
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  (#6) The Band Brought Mayhem To The 2000 Kerrang! Awards, Including Lighting Its Table On Fire

  At the 2000 Kerrang! (a British heavy music magazine) Awards in London, Slipknot won three awards. 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. 

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