The End

Sad to say that this will be the last post on my blog, but it shouldn't be the end of slipknot and it wont be. i encourage all of the readers to go and buy an album or go listen to them on youtube they are an amazing band and have worked very hard for everything they have earned! They have all gone through alot but kept fighting and now have made it to the top.

 

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Heretic Anthem

People always say that this song is hatred and is only about killing people. Well its not! the name of the song is the meaning and if people would listen to it then they would understand. Society is killing themselves with every day little things that we are doing, man's worst enemy is man. we are killing ourselves. As Crahan from slipknot said "We are what we are, we just waste and we ruin and we corrupt, and we destroy," so People=Shit basically because we are our own worst enemy, we are going to be the end of the earth and no one seems to give a shit. The message trying to get across is that of the human race is depleating itself of the simple pleasures in life and that everyone is now fake. Fake meaning people, society, everyone, is now pretending to be someone else. Not caring about others, and just themselves. In this act, they are a disease put on earth and we must show them the reality of life. They kill themselves, and or others, because they do not know what is going on in the real world because they are so wrapped up in the world politics and media, they hide reality from people because it will scare them. People need to know. People are the #1 cause of destruction on this earth and this needs to change, but the sad fact is, we can't..

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#8 Corey Taylor

"We aren't hiding behind these masks, we're actually revealing more to you than you might think. The mask I wear brings out all the shit inside me that I hate. Plus it hurts like hell, which helps my intensity." "If you feel like talking, you talk, if you don't, you don't". Corey is the master of the horrid vocals and lyrics in Slipknot. Before he joined the band, he worked in a porn shop to earn money (it was called "Adult Emporium"). On stage he is loud, fast, and out of control. Offstage, he seems very calm and down to Earth. Before Slipknot he was part of the band Stone Sour. Corey loves Comedy albums, which he grew up on.

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#7 Mick Thompson

Mick Thompson. Mick is the lead guitarist of the band. He's huge, as you can see. He claims to be a fan of serial killers, but he loves cats. Mick is apparently a night person. Previously he had a job teaching guitar lessons at "Ye Olde Guitar Shop", but he stopped in 1999. Before the famous overalls Mick dressed himself up as Little Bo Peep. There have been speculations that the old slipknot member Grouch was just Mick wearing a different mask, these speculations are untrue.

"If I were a famous killer, I'd take some of the finer points of quite a few of them - Albert Fish and Ed Gein spring to mind. But I'm not a violent person by nature. Don't fuck with me, and you'll be fine." 


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#6 Shaun Crahan

Shaun adds his own unique sound to the band. His drum set is made of titanium. He made it himself, because he has a background in welding, and he's good at it. Shawn starts a good amount of fights on stage, when he's not playing, and has a sort of rivalry with Sid. Shawn is also one of the co-founders of Slipknot with Paul (2) and Anders. He is the second percussionist and has a wife, Chantal, and 3 kids. ("I'm a perfect father and a fucking psychopath, ok? No contradiction") Shawn does most of the interviews and ran www.slipknot2.com, Shawn has a habit of ramming his head into walls and has injured himself many times in performances ( He has fractured knuckles, split a collarbone, suffered slipped vertebrae, bruised his pelvic bone, dislocated a shoulder, gotten a concussion, partially severed a finger, and smashed his head often enough to require 22 stitches ) He also goes onto AIM to chat with fans and he is by far the craziest member of Slipknot. Shawn has recently changed his mask and it is also named "Dude". Shawn is the oldest of Slipknot. In the old days Slipknot did not wear the jumpsuits they wore other costumes, @ one of these shows Shawn decided to wear a huge purple "Barney" suit.

Nicknamed "Kong" - Shawn's mom told him he looked like a silver-backed gorilla when she watched them practising one day, so they started calling him Kong. Anders: "She watched a videotape of one of our practices in my basement and had this to say: "Anders looks like a Timber wolf, ready to attack. Shawn, you look like a Silver-back Gorilla. The whole band looks like what I envision to be the band that entices a caveman hunting party into a frenzy before going out to bring down a Mammoth."" Born September 24, 1969 

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#5 Craig Jones

"Sometimes, when we are working our way up to the stage, we'll shove our way through the crowd. When people see me coming, they mostly get out of the way. But sometimes they don't..." After Slipknot is done playing a set, Craig leaves and secludes himself, he is isolated and independent from Slipknot. Craig is married and he originally joined the band as a guitarist but was replaced by Mick so that he could work on the samples. He is a computer freak and when playing Quake 3 his screen name is ZZ 5 along with his own skin which looks just like him. To prevent his eyes being seen in photo shoots he covers them with leather, he also prefers not to take part in interviews, remaining anonymous. So you're wondering how the sound in the very beginning of the CD is made. Well, that's made by Craig, the sampler. He puts some crazy twists on the CD by adding sounds from movies such as "Carlito's Way" (sic) into the music. He is also, supposedly the Webmaster of Slipknot1.com, this may have changed though.

 "A long time ago, back when they were playing at Mary's, someone did get a little close to getting hurt. Someone came up from behind him and startled him. He can't hear a lot in that mask because it's pretty airtight. When they came up behind him, they were wanting his autograph and they tapped him on his shoulder. He wasn't expecting anyone to come up behind him and he whipped around a little and one of the nails on his mask got caught in a chick standing next to him's hair. It took Paul and Shawn just a few seconds to get them untangled. That's as close to anything that I know of as far as any incidents with Craig's masks."

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#4 James Root

"The guys chose this mask to tame me. Joining this band takes a little getting used to. I was a timid guy before I joined them. Now I'm a freak! Am I as borderline psychotic as the rest?" is a quote from James himself. He is the newest member of the band, he joined during the recording of their CD. Despite the look of the band he is actually the tallest in the band at 6'6 and although mick seems the giant of the group for height wise he is only about 6'2. James is very fast and technical with the guitar... practice pays. He was previously in the bands Dead Front, Atomic Opera and Stone Sour. James was a waiter/busboy and said that he "hated that greasy hell"

He wears a court jester/demon mask. MEANING: "It's pretty much everything I am, but it's the stuff I'm afraid to let out sometimes. It's a jester's mask and I kinda have that prankster's side to me, so I spose it's my own little way of venting that silliness in the grossest kind of way. This is my old mask because it doesn't feel like the right time for the new one yet - it needs some work doing on it." - Jim originally inherited Josh (ex-guitarist), old mask, a bondage one containing a purple tassel on the top of it. He wore this until the new Jester mask was created, it is the mask that can be seen on the front of the self titled album cover.



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#3 Chris Fehn

Chris is known as the soft spoken joker of the band. I mean, really... how could he not be with that mask? Chris is the co-drummer and also the first percussionist. Chris is the comedian of the band and on the bonus tracks of the self titled album he can be heard puking (within his initiation test). Rolling Stone has described him as the most handsome and wholesome member of the band. Chris enjoys "jacking off" his nose, he can be seen doing this in not only the Spit it Out video but also in many interviews and on Conan O'Brien.

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#2 Paul Gray

Paul Gray was one of the founding members along with Shaun(#6), and ex band member Anders. Paul was not born in Des Moines Iowa, unlike the rest of the band, he was born in LA and moved when he was young. He has appeared in bands such as Vexx, Body Pit, Anal Blast and Inveigh Catharsis all before Slipknot, he also made an appearance with Davo's band, "The Havenots". He is also known as "The Pig"

 Paul Gray was one of the greatest bassist that i have ever heard, and he will forever be dearly missed. R.I.P Paul..


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#1 Joey Jordison

Nathan Jonas Jordison, is his real name but he goes by Joey. Joey is the drummer for Slipknot. Joey is one of the most unbelievable drummer's that i have ever heard, this man has what i like to call machine legs he is so fast passed and has some of the sickest double bass ever! He's the shortest one of the lot and is also one of the original members of Slipknot. Before joining he was part of the band Anal Blast. Joey created the now commonly used term of maggot. The tribal "S" that has originated as their logo was originally drawn by Joey.

Joey likes to wear a black hood that says "Little People Kill People"

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#0 Sid Wilson

Nicknamed "Monkeyboy. Sid is a sick son of a Bitch. He's really sarcastic, and he claims he suffers from 'organic brain syndrome'. Sid and Shawn (6) maintain a rivalry, which usually breaks out as violence on stage. Sid is definitely one of the craziest people in the band, he has stage dived from a 2 storey balcony. Sid is the youngest of the band, Joey describes Sid as a "lady's man" Sid's family is from England. Sid is the crowd surfer of the band. He's not the only member that does, but he'll do some crazy shit.
Sid's musical Influences:
1.  Grandmaster Flash  
2.  DJ Jazzy Jeff  
3.  DJ Cash Plenty  
4.  Invisible Scratch Pickles Crew  
5.  Executioners (formerly the X-Men)  

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Paul Gray #2

April 8, 1972- May 24 2010. That was the lifespan of the "essence" of slipknot. Paul Gray, bassist for slipknot he left the world, leaving behind shoes to big for any other person in the world to fill. And as band members stated, " he left behind absolute love. Everything Paul did he did for everyone around him, whether he knew you or not." Paul Gray was the person in the band who wanted everyone to get along and not fight, he was the essence of slipknot.

R.I.P Paul, we wont forget! Maggot For Life

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The Band

The Band Slipknot was formed in 1995 in Des Moines, Iowa. So the band members of this band, are not your usual band mates. First of all there are 9 of them. and they are numbered.
#0- Sid- D
#1- Joey- Drummer
#2- Paul- Bassist
#3- Chris- Custom Percussion
#4- James- Guitar
#5- Craig- Sampler
#6- Shawn- Custom Precision
#7- Mick- Guitarist
#8- Corey- Vocals.

This is the pictures of the bands first masks they used in there first rotation. But more about the band, what can i say i love them Slipknot is and always will be my favorite band. The reason I love slipknot so much is because there lyrics have meaning and they don't take any trash from anyone. Like Corey said in one of his interviews about what slipknot is when they were first starting, "Slipknot is the noise inside every teenagers head." they are amazing, and i truly believe in that post, if im mad mad, sad, depressed or anything, i turn up the slipknot and everything feels better. Slipknot hasn't always had its current nine members. They had different members when they founded the band and released their first album MFKR(Mate Feed Kill Repeat) which the current band members do not really count as an album of their own.

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Welcome

 Welcome to my blog, as you can tell this is a blog about Slipknot. Over the next while I will be posting about all of the band members, my opinions and thoughts about them and how they are in the band. I will also be talking in general about the band and events that have happened to the band. Also song discussion about how you feel about the song and what the lyrics mean to me, and you if you wanna comment and let me know i am always interested in everyone's opinion's about Slipknot. Thank you. Stay (sic).