Slipknot why they wear masks

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Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in May His long hair perfectly compliments his 'female mask'. Slipknot's Alessandro Venturella in The bassist joined Slipknot in and adopted his chilling burlap mask.

Since his guise has been various versions of his. Slipknot's Jay Weinberg in The drummer joined Slipknot two hours earlier and adopted an almost tribal burlap mask.

Slipknot's Chris Fehn in July Fehn's Liar Mask is complimented by his long flowing locks. Slipknot's mystery new percussionist, strongly rumoured to be Michael Pfaff from Clown's side-project Dirty Little Rabbits, was dubbed Tortilla Man by maggots in because, you guessed it, his mask looks like a tortilla.

Corey Taylor unveiled his nightmarish new mask at Rocklahoma Festival in September - the band's first concert in almost 19 months. Jay Weinberg unveiled his fearsome new mask to maggots around the world at Knotfest Los Angeles in November Everything you need to know about Slipknot. Slipknot, Ghost, Buckethead: Rock stars unmasked.

Listen to Everything That Rocks on Kerrang! Slipknot's masks through the years The evolution of Slipknot's masks. Slipknot in Slipknot wearing trademark white boiler suits and their horrorshow masks in Slipknot 'Slipknot' Slipknot on the sleeve of their fearsome, self-titled debut album in June Slipknot's in Slipknot standing in a stairway in early , obviously.

Sid Wilson's mask Slipknot's Sid Wilson in his gas mask in Corey Taylor's mask Corey Taylor with his dreadlock mask in - a very different mask to his look today. The heavy metal band's attention-grabbing look is mostly down to unique masks each member dons on stage. During the band's early days, percussionist Shaun "Clown" Crahan would turn up to rehearsals wearing a clown mask, inspiring his nickname. Frontman Corey Taylor told Kerrang! His imagination, his vision in a lot of ways has helped shaped this for so many years.

Taylor said the masks gave the band uniqueness and went against the grain of the prevailing trends in heavy metal at the time the band started out.

Read our Joey Jordison live blog for the latest news and updates…. Holding his legendary clown mask, Crahan added: "I had gotten a version of this mask when I was Shawn Crahan is one of the founding members of the band and the only original member in the lineup.

Nicknamed Clown, he is credited for bringing about the band's unique mask style and when performing with Slipknot, he is also known as 6. The year-old has donned several masks during his time with the band, all of which have been clown-themed - except for his "death mask" used in the video for the song Vermilion. Joey Jordison was also a founding member of the group, joining when Slipknot formed back in