[SlipKnot Facts]

[SlipKnot Facts]
The sample used on the beginning of (sic) where someone screams: "Here comes the pain" was taken from the movie Carlito's Way. The voice was Al Pacino's.

The nails on Craig's helmet is 6 inches long and is not made of rubber.

Craig's name 133 has a speculated story behind it. 133 (Craig's name) multiply it by 5 (his number) plus 1 (his person) and you get 666. Also, rumor has it that Pentium 133 is the speed of Craig's PC, that's why he named himself after that.

Paul Gray (Bass) was with Anders (M.F.K.R. vocalist) and Josh (M.F.K.R. Guitarist) on a band called VeXX. They were also on a group called Body Pit with Mick Thomson and Donnie Steele before they joined Slipknot.

The song 'Purity' is about a teenager named Purity Knight who was stalked and eventually kidnapped by a man. This man sent clues to the cops daring them to find her. And in the end, he buried her alive and suffocated underground. For more details, go to crimescene.com

Slipknot's self-titled second album was re-released after Corey Taylor found out that the Purity Knight story was just fictional. In order to avoid lawsuits, the band replaced Purity and Frail Limb Nursery with Me Inside, a track taken from the Digipack release. Corey, however, still believes that there is truth to the Purity Knight story.

Slipknot purchased the rights to the barcode number, 742617000027, and used it for logos, t-shirts, Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat and the first track on their self-titled album.

The dreads on Corey's mask is real. He used to have his dreads come out of the mask but he had problems with it so he shaved his head bald and glued the dreads on top of the mask.

In the song 'Eyeless', Corey repeats the chorus :"You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes". That line was taken from an incident when the band went to sign their record deal with Roadrunner in New York, Corey saw a homeless man on the sidewalk repeating. "You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes". Marlon Brando is a famous actor who played such roles in the Tragedy of Julius Caesar, The Godfather and The Island Of Dr. Moreau.

The picture on the cover of "Slipknot" was taken in Shawn Crahan's parent's garage.

Chris Fehn's nose is only 7 inches long and not 12 inches as previously reported.

The sample used on 742671000027 was taken from a Charles Manson documentary.

After Scissors, there is a secret track wherein the band is talking with each other and you can hear someone puking. Shawn Crahan dropped clues on what the hell is happening there and said it was an initiation for Chris "2" Fehn, but he's not gonna' tell anyone what is going on.

Corey used to work in a porn shop in Des Moines. "People would look at me like I was a freak, but they were the ones buying in the porn shop at four in the morning. Straight looking people I'd know would come to the register with 14-inch dildos and then they'd recognise me sitting there, and I'd be like, 'Like any lotions or lubes with that?'. But I didn't want anyone to feel dirty in the shop - because people are made to feel dirty every day of their lives, and that's bullshit".

Corey originally wanted to play drums, but began writing and singing songs after hearing Soundgarden's "Screaming Life" and Nirvana's "Bleach".

Shawn Crahan knew Corey as "The King Of Des Moines" when StoneSour were the biggest band in town. The public didn't like the heavier songs he was writing. Then Shawn Crahan recruited him into Slipknot. Apparently this decision was made by Shawn, Joey and Mich going intoCorey's porn shop and "basicaly told me if I didn't join the band they'd kick my fucking ass".

Corey has the Japanese character for "death" tattooed on one side of his neck, and the character for "father" on the other side. This was because he never knew his father.
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