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Facts:
+ Real name: Nathan Jonas Jordison.
+ He's the shortest
+ He was one of the original members of Slipknot, and drummed for MFKR
+ He was in the band Anal Blast before joining.
+ He's the most talkative of the group.
+ He created the term 'Maggot', (a Slipknot fan).
+ He writes a lot of their songs, including Scissors.
+ He mixed the self titled album.
+ He's the most talkative member.
+ Joey attained the nickname "Superball" after one show that Slipknot played horrible in, so he got mad and started "bouncing around the room".
+ He has an obsession with Fiona Apple.

Other Intresting Facts:
What exact even encouraged Joey to involve himself in Metal? Joey started his passion in 1982 at the age of six, having seen a news report stating that a metal star had bitten the head off of a bat the night before. "I immediately thought that Ozzy ruled". Soon after he bought the "Blizzard of Oz" album and the Sickness had started. "It hasn't left me to this day, It was meant to be. It was almost like Ozzy bit the head off a bat to pass the torch way early on, to another sick band."

Hobbies: "It is pretty much covered by music 24/7. Aside from that, maybe video games, sleeping and sex."

Joey's first drumset: He got this in 5th grade, having previously played guitar in some old primary school bands. The drum set came to him as a surprise gift from his parents; they had asked him to go into the basement in search of an "Elton John" tape, to Joey's astonishment within the basement he found a fully set up drum kit.

Quotes:
"Ross (Robinson) is insane! Once, when we were recording here, he threw a potted plant at me. It exploded on the wall over my head and the dirt went in my mouth. It was awesome."

Old Bands:
In his freshman year, in Waukee High; Joey was part of a band named, "Avanga". However due to a lack of motivation from other members, Joey looked elsewhere - Music was his only escape.

Joey soon started a new band with neighbour Tim, "Modifidious". It was a "speed-metal-thrash" band and 15 songs were written in quick succession. Soon a bassist, Ryan, was found along with a guitarist named Jay (formerly of Avanga). The band, with new guitarist Bruce, had their headlining slot as a support to Jim's band, "Atomic opera" at the Runway. Bruce soon left Modifidious to join Atomic Opera and as a result a new guitarist was required, he arrived through Ryan. His name was Craig. Then another drop out came to Joey's band; Tim left in the summer of '92. Josh soon left his band to join Modifidious as a vocalist and filling Tim's spot.

This new line up soon put out a quick demo which was recorded within Joey's basement and mixed in Craig's house. It held the name of, "Visceral". Following this demo in 1993, the band played a few shows with a band that Shawn was in called, "Heads on the Wall". This was followed by another demo, "Mud Fuschia" and later a CD, "Sprawl". By this CD, Joey claimed the band was, "Kings of Des Moines", pulling up to 200 people per show and playing lots of performances shows.

However the band began to go down hill with the new grunge wave and loosing popularity of Thrash opposed to Death Metal. The new Des Moines band had become Body Pit, Paul's new band. Due to a lack of interest the band broke up in 1995. For a while, Joey played guitar in the band "The Rejects" with head lining vocalist nicknamed, "Dizzy".

Joey also played in a band called, "Anal Blast" however Joey did not leave his band, Modifidious for this and it was deemed more of a side project. Joey was tempted to join Slipknot by Paul. At this time the project was called "The Pale Ones" and, Anders, Shawn, Donnie and of course Paul were already within the group - practising in Anders' basement. The first songs Joey heard them play were, "Slipknot", "Gently" and "Fur".

Modifidious - Joey - Drums - Josh - Vocals/guitars - Craig- Guitars
tracks by Modifidious:
Visceral:
Sprawl
Drown
Into a Shadow
Ritual Circle

Mud Fuchsia:
Virus 808/Fist
Henry
Everything
Drop

Anal blast - Paul - bass - Joey - Drums
Slipknot: 1995 - CURRENT

His Mask:
Joey wears an expressionless Japanese Kabuki mask, some blank and some with scars painted across the forehead and mouth. He cuts off the arm and leg sleeves of the Slipknot outfit so he can move more freely while drumming. Why he chose his mask: "My mom had that type of mask and one time when I came home really late, she was waiting for me. She came around the corner in the mask onand this robe- it scared the living fuck out of me"
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Name: Paul Gray
Number: 2
E-Mail: paul@slipknot1.com

Facts:
+ He's co-founder of the group, along with Shawn(#6)
+ He burned a picture of Korn posing for Calvin Klein in Teen People on- stage.
+ He was one of the original members of Slipknot.
+ He was not born in Des Moines Iowa, like the rest of the band. Paul was born in Los Angeles, CA and moved to Des Moines when he was young.
+ He's half black.
+ He was in the bands VexX , Body Pit, Anal Blast, and Inveigh Catharsis before Slipknot

Quotes:
"When we go to radio stations for interviews, we wear the masks and never fail to freak people out. Are the masks a fetish thing? I'm definitely into that stuff. Des Moines definitely has more than its fair share of freaks."

Old Bands:
First band- 1989- 1991: VeXX
Josh from Slipknot was guitarist/singer
Paul from Slipknot was bassist
Anders was drummer

Second band- 1991- 1993: Inveigh Catharsis
Same line-up as above

However with a new wave of popularity in death metal, Paul formed a new band, named, Body Pit. In it came and began to take over, pushing bands such as Joey's, Modifidious, out of the picture. (See Joey's profile for M info). This band also employed the services of Mick Thompson. However despite this addition to the band, it soon broke up.

Third band- 1993- 1995: Body Pit
Mick: Guitar (Slipknot)
Donnie Steele (original Slipknot guitarist)
Danny Spain- drums (Deadfront)
Paul: Bass (Slipknot)
Anders: Vocals

Fourth band- 1994: Anal Blast
Paul: Bass
Joey: Drums

Fifth band- 1995- 2000: Slipknot
(Original Line-up)
Anders- vocals
Paul- bass
Shawn- drums
Donnie S.- guitars
Josh- guitars
Joey Jordison- drums

His Mask:
Paul has two masks: The tight, normal one that tends to look like a beaver, and the loose, more pig- oriented one. He says it reflects his indulgent personality.
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Name: Chris Fehn
Number: 3
E-Mail: chris@slipknot1.com

Facts:
+ Chris is the co- drummer and first percussionist.
+ Chris has a habit of "jacking" off his nose. He can be seen doing it in many interviews, the Spit It Out video, and on Conan O'Brien.
+ He is the comedic member of the band.
+ He can be heard puking in the bonus track of Slipknot.
+ Rolling Stone describes him as the most "handsome, wholesome" member of the band.
+ Many speculations prove that previous "member" Cuddles was indeed Chris in disguise.

Quotes:
"This mask reflects my comic personality. Plus I chose it for the bondage factor. When you put it on, it takes you to another place. Its very hot, its very tight, and it hurts - that goes along with the aggression we create."

Old Bands:
Chris was previously in a band called "Shed".

His Mask:
Chris wears a Pinnochio- like mask with a 7 1/2 inch nose and a zipper for a mouth. "It hurts. And that goes along with the aggression we create."
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Name: Jim Root
Number: 4
E-Mail: james@slipknot1.com

Facts:
+ James was the last to Join Slipknot.
+ At 6'6, "Jim" is towers over his 6'2 guitarist counterpart, Mick, who is beleived to be the tallest.
+ His real hair color is brown.
+ He is more oftenly called Jim.
+ Previous to Slipknot, James was in the bands Dead Front and Atomic Opera.

Quotes:
"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? Ask me in a month!"

Old Bands:
James used to be in Stone Sour as the guitarist, Corey was the lead singer for this band as well, it's unsure how long he was in the band for though. He was also within the band, "Atomic Opera" prior to Stone Sour along with Bruce Swink, who also made the switch with Jim from AO to SS. During the times when Jim was in Atomic Opera; Joey looked upto him, "Jim was the King".

It is also rumored that Jim was in a band called 2Deadfront", here are some of the songs that the band made:

Deadfront - Nemesis
1. Nemesis
2. Retard
3. Torn Inside
4. Kweece
5. Radio Flyer
6. C.
7. Assisted Suicide
8. Organcis
9. Erase Me ft Alexis from Smakdab

His Mask:
Actually, more than one mask. James was forced into wearing a stiffling bondage hood when he joined the group to tame him. This same exact type of hood was worn by the member he replaced, Josh. However when Slipknot played, sweat would be trapped inside the mask so he made a Jester- like mask to reflect on his Jester- like personality. It has a zipper for a mouth and a spike for a chin. It is smelly and disgusting, and he claims that everyone gets pissed at him because the mask stinks up the whole house.
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Name: Craig Jones
Number: 5
E-Mail: 133@slipknot1.com

Facts:
+ He is married.
+ He's the brains behind the opening track from Slipknot's new album, 742617000027.
+ He originally joined the band as a guitarist.
+ Him and his wife run Slipknot1.com.
+ He leaves shows early to maintain his anonymity.
+ He feels isolated and independant.
+ He maintains the official site.
+ He is a computer game freak, his screen name when playing Quake 3 Arena online is ZZ 5. He even has his own "Slipknot member" skin, so it looks just like him when he plays.
+ At photo shoots, he wears leather covering his eyes from being seen, and prefers not to take part in any interviews, to remain anonymous.
+ He gets most of his samples from movies. For example, in (sic), he got the "here comes the pain" part from the movie Carlito's Way.

Other Intresting Facts:
"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."

"Very quiet, the epitome of Killers Are Quiet. I remember him going with me and some others to the 1988 And Justice for All - Metallica/The Cult concert. My car's radiator blew on the way home." Craig didn't record MFKR, although his pic is in the inside sleeve of the album. The samples were put together by Anders and producer Sean Mcmahon after MFKR was recorded. Not many people know this but Craig actually joined the band as a guitarist to take over Donnie Steele's position. His sampling was integrated into the mfkr songs for example the song gently started off with a sample from the movie "Falling down" featuring the conversation between "d-fens" and the army surplus Nazi."

His Mask:
Craig wears a diver's helmet that he found at a gas station. He put the "spikes" through it himself using tape. The "spikes" are really nails. Contrary to popular beleif, the old mask he wore had the flashlight at the top and he new one doesn't. The new modifications include more white at the top, and no tube hanging out the bottom.?
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Name: Shawn Crahan
Number: 6
E-Mail: shawn@slipknot1.com

Facts:
+ It is confirmed that Shawn will swtch masks for the next album, and it will definitaly be a clown mask.
+ He named his mask "Dude".
+ He is 30 years old, the oldest of Slipknot.
+ He has a habit of banging his head against walls.
+ 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 during performances.
+ Sometimes he goes on AIM and chats with fans.
+ He was a welder before joining the group, and he welded his own drums.
+ He has a wife, Chantal, and 3 kids.
+ He is co- founder of the group, along with Paul.
+ He has a drumkit made of titanium.

Other Intresting Facts:
The Crow: Shawn found a dead crow in his driveway, and kept it in a big, commercial pickle jar, and carried it around at shows until it turned to mush. During shows Shawn would open the jar, this would cause him to vomit all over the place and also cause fans to start vomiting all over the place. It was (sic), it was kept in the jar with all the bacteria and flesh eating creatures. It started secreting this brown liquid and became a fine sauce. Some kids broke the jar open and played catch with it for a while and now it's disposed. At one radio interview Shawn took it along and freaked out the radio person who was also afraid of clowns.

Beaver Tail "Rumour": A cop gave Shawn a dead beavers tail because the cop didn't know how to get rid of it. Shawn didn't know what to do with it so on stage he and corey squeezed all the juices out of it into their faces and then they ate it. Afterwards they were throwing up like crazy and asking each other why the fuck they did that.

Safari Club: Shawn owned the "The Safari Club" within Des Moines for a short time (he bought it in January 1997), one of the only places to see new rock and punk acts. As Slipknot got huge though, it became too much to manage and had to be shut down, it later re-opened as Hairy Mary's.

Runaway Club: Shawn was a regular attendee to the "Runway" club for which he paid $7 to enter each time. It was where the people who liked proper music gathered. However within this club Shawn was still disgraced at the number of competing cover bands that would out shine other; more original bands. Crahan did however manage to allow "all aged" shows to take place within the club on Sundays. For a while Shawn's discontent was settled with such bands as Modifidious and Body Pit, however these bands all broke up within a very short space of each other and the metal Scene had once again disappeared. Shawn now had to put up with cover bands once again. At this point Shawn knew he had to do something different and one day the concept of Slipknot came to him.

Qoutes:
"I've wanted to be a clown because there's something nice about me, and something pretty twisted as well. If someone stares at me on my way to the stage, I don't get up until they look away first."

"I am on a world-domination mission. Slipknot isn't just an average band. It's not just music. It's a way of life and it's the real way of life. When I go on-stage, the rock'n'roll cliché can go die. There's no place for that anymore. My whole deal is, when we've reached everyone and everyone understands, I'm gone. I'm out. I've done it."

Some Questions And Answers:
Do your kids come to Slipknot shows and what do they think of them?
Yes - my oldest thinks it's too loud. My boy loves the band - he really loves Corey. He is the new clown. My youngest is too young to understand.

A lot of kids in the Slipknot chat room said you are making a new mask. Is this true and if so, what's it like?
It's true - you'll have to wait but don't worry I was born the Clown.

What do you all wear under your boiler suits?
Most are nude, some wear underwear and T-shirts.

If Slipknot were on MTV's Celebrity Death match, then who would you flip for a punch' with?
We'd prefer not to be on the show.

Do any of the bands have bad habits, if yes, then who and what?!
We're the 'Knot - we are all fucked up.

Is it true that one of Slipknot is English and has family in Portishead here?
0 is English, but doesn't have family there.

What's your personal favourite song on the album and why?
"Tattered and Torn" - if you understand it, then you understand the Clown.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Nothing.

His Mask:
Shawn found the mask one day on the clearance counter of a store,so he bought it. Shawn was the first in the group to wear a mask. He wore it to practice one day and the group thought it was tight , so they all started wearing them to rehearsal. Shawn wasactually the first member of the band to wear coveralls. Before they all wore identical outfits, Shawn wore white coveralls with paint splattered on them.
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Name: Mick Thompson
Number: 7
E-Mail: mick@slipknot1.com

Facts:
+ He's a fan of serial killers, and loves cats.
+ His previous job was teaching guitar lessons, which he still does to this day.
+ Before Slipknot wore coveralls, Mick dressed up as Little Bo Peep.
+ Many speculations prove that previous Slipknot member Grouch was indeed Mick, just wth a different mask.
+ James is actually taller than Mick, contrary to what it looks like and what most people think. James is 6'6" and Mick is 6'2".

Qoutes:
"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."

Old Bands:
First band- 1993- 1995: Body Pit
Mick: Guitar (Slipknot)
Donnie Steele (original Slipknot guitarist)
Danny Spain: Drums (Deadfront)
Paul: Bass (Slipknot)
Anders: Vocals

His Mask:
Mick has two masks. The first was a green painted modified hockey mask, and the second is a metallic leather mask.
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Name: Corey Taylor
Number: 8
E-Mail: corey@slipknot1.com

Facts:
+ Before Slipknot wore coveralls, Corey dressed in a priest outfit.
+ He was in the band Stone Sour before Slipknot.

Qoutes:
"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"

"So many people are like, 'Gimmick, gimmick, gimmick!', Fuck you! You don't know what we're about! Our motto has always been, 'Music First.' Even if the masks and the coveralls weren't there, the music would still be good."

Early Ages:
At a young age Corey liked to get down to the likes of "The King" - Elvis, thanks to influences from his grandmother. "Elvis was a great singer". His grandmother also helped him with buying equipment and his talent for music.
During Corey's youth
he and some friends often talked about a burnt out old house that
they dared not go near. Then one night they all decided to make
their way towards the house; to their surprise it was all lit up
and after hearing noises they ran screaming.

Corey's Voice:
1) When he's actually singing (wait and bleed, mid point of no life)
2) Crazy screaming (beginning of sic and Eyeless), (surfacing fuck it all part)
3) Slow talking (I can't see, I can't be.., purity)
4) Fast talking (spit it out, no life)
5) Melodic (prosthetics, scissors)
6) Raspy scream (tattered and torn)
7) Normal scream. Like in only one, diluted, etc.

Old Bands:
Corey was previously in a band called
"Stone Sour". He was also in Bloodfest and Dead Second. After Corey leaving Stone Sour for Slipknot the band ultimately finished. Jim Root also played in this band. Corey + Joel wrote most of the Stone Sour songs. They were like "Faith No More/AIC/Tool" with a lot of other little elements thrown in. As you may already know Stone Sour is back again, their 1st album will be released around September this year. They already posted a rough mix of a number called "Get Inside" you can download it here.

His Mask:
A crash dummy mask. The dreads on them are partially his real hair wrapped in twine which he sewed on after being pissed from having to pull it through the little holes on the top, and a scalp infection. I hear his mask is supposed to represent a scarecrow.