Line #5 Trivia/Slipknot


1	!!General Trivia:
2	* Kerry King of Music/{{Slayer}} once said in a ''Guitar World'' interview that "Corey Taylor is the best singer on the planet. He believes every fuckin' breath."
3	* Corey Taylor was found, by VVN Music, to possess the second-widest vocal range of any known singer in popular music with a range of 5 and a half octaves. He was beaten only by Music/MikePatton (6 octaves).
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5	!!Trivia Tropes:
6	* ApprovalOfGod: In 2011, a Website/YouTube musician mashed up "Psychosocial" with... Music/JustinBieber's "Baby." Corey Taylor ''LOVED IT''!
7	* BlackSheepHit: "Snuff" from ''All Hope Is Gone'' is a slow, mournful ballad that sounds very different from Slipknot's usual stuff, and generally would have been far more at home in Stone Sour's catalog. It went on to become Slipknot's most successful single ever, reaching number 2 on the ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song also grew absent from the band's setlist after 2012, not being played again until March 2022 (although Corey Taylor did play it at solo appearances in the intervening years).
8	* ColbertBump: For "Psychosocial" after "Psychosocial [[Music/JustinBieber Baby]]" happened. Then it happened again after it was mashed up with "[[Music/TheWiggles Fruit Salad]]", creating "Psychosalad". It's actually a pretty seamless mashup. "The Dying Song (Time to Sing)" got one after being the lobby theme music for the band's collaboration with ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight''.
9	* CreatorBacklash:
10	** In the band's 2014 Google Autobiography, most of the members admitted that they considered ''All Hope Is Gone'' to be their worst album, with cited reasons including issues with their producer at the time, feeling that they were "playing it safe" with the album's sound, and problems with getting all nine members together to record. Shawn Crahan even stated that he was never fully on board with the album's title because it conveyed a message he didn't agree with (as he believes that even in darkness, there is ''always'' hope), an opinion he doubled down on after Paul Gray's death, which he believed [[HarsherInHindsight the title unintentionally foreshadowed]]. The band abandoned the album save for "Psychosocial" in setlists for virtually all of the 2010s. However, other tracks have since crept back in, and the band has warmed up to it in recent years, with the members admitting that much of their dislike for it stemmed from its fractured and dysfunctional creative process and their memories of Gray's massive decline and steadily worsening addictions around that time.
11	** Taylor also isn't fond of ''Vol. 3'' for similar reasons. The recording process was unpleasant due to in-house tensions and Rick Rubin being (in Taylor's words) "completely fucking useless," his attempts to expand his vocal range led to lots of results that he felt should have gone back to the drawing board, and his drinking problem at the time led to lots of bad (from his perspective) vocal takes making it onto the final product. Rubin also reportedly didn't spend a lot of time with the band, as he was juggling several projects at once. When he did appear, it usually was for less than an hour, and he would usually lay down, play a couple pre-production tracks, make a few comments, and then leave. He and Taylor also got into a heated argument over the chorus of "Before I Forget," which Rubin argued wasn't catchy enough, but Taylor refused to change in any way. Nonetheless, "Before I Forget" ended up becoming a hit and a {{Signature Song}} for the band.
12	** ''Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.'' has pretty much been disowned, though Corey has been an enthusiastic supporter of Anders Colsefni's decision to play it live in 2023.
13	** Apparently, their unreleased second demo album ''Crowz'' never existed.[[note]]From a certain standpoint, this is technically correct at least. ''Crowz'' is just a loose collection of demo tracks recorded around the period that both Corey and Anders were in the band, and the name comes from a band in-joke about one of the members at the time turning down a street on the way to the studio and seeing an unusually large number of crows.[[/note]]
14	* CreativeDifferences: One of the reasons behind Jordison's departure, although the biggest reason was due to the fact Jordison developed a condition that was slowly making him unable to play the drums. It's believed Jordison's firing was less due to the differences and more on not wanting him to overly stress his body out (with the additional effects of Paul Gray's death on him). This could have been the case due to Jordison's passing in 2021, several years after his departure.
15	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: According to Taylor's album ranking on Noisey's "[[http://noisey.vice.com/columns/rank-your-records Rank Your Records]]", the SelfTitledAlbum is his favorite.
16	* FalseCredit: Despite being credited as a percussionist on the band's debut album, Chris Fehn's only appearance on the release was vomiting during the hidden track "Mudslide".
17	* FanCommunityNicknames: "Maggots".
18	* FandomNod: The song "Pulse of the Maggots".
19	* GenreKiller: For nu metal, in a way. When the SelfTitledAlbum dropped in 1999, there was nothing else like it, and its sense of chaos and unhinged rage was very much an antithesis to what was becoming an increasingly safe and formulaic genre. The band went from supporting to headlining tours over the course of a few months because anything placed over them invariably faced massive walkouts and a fraction of the crowd that they would play to. It then quickly became apparent that while the band may have gotten big because of nu metal, they had transcended the genre and quite simply did not need it past 2001. While most people will blame Music/LimpBizkit and the glut of formulaic third-tier acts for killing the genre, Slipknot also helped kill it by attracting a rabid, cult-like fanbase who often did not care about nu metal as a whole, and generally demonstrated that they were the only new act that stayed true to nu metal's original principles while everyone else was sticking to well-trodden ground.
20	* GenreRelaunch: In many ways, Joey Jordison did this for extreme drumming styles. When Slipknot arrived on the scene, ''no one'' with any sort of mainstream reach (aside from Music/MorbidAngel and ''maybe'' Music/CannibalCorpse and Music/{{Deicide}}) was playing at extremely high tempos and using blastbeats and extremely fast double kick rolls the way that Joey was, and Slipknot's popularity and influence gave that style of drumming mainstream cred. This, in turn, paved the way for bands like Music/ShadowsFall, Music/LambOfGod, Music/AllThatRemains, Devildriver, and Bleeding Through to use extreme drumming styles in the 2000s, as well as creating the kind of environment that gave extreme bands a much better shot at achieving meaningful mainstream popularity (as Music/CannibalCorpse, Music/{{Behemoth}}, Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder, Music/{{Nile}}, Music/JobForACowboy, and the entire deathcore scene would go on to do).
21	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
22	** Their demo album ''Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.'' was limited to only 1,000 copies and is a sought-after rarity among fans. None of the band members even have a copy of the album anymore, and its legacy is kept alive by bootlegged [=CDs=] and [=MP3s=].
23	** Although "Purity" and its intro track "Frail Limb Nursery" were included on the original issuing of the self-titled album, they had to be cut from later editions for copyright reasons. Essentially, the band themed these tracks around what Taylor thought was a real murder case but was actually an entirely fictional AlternateRealityGame called ''Crime Scene'', and the creator threatened to sue. "Purity" was eventually included on the 10th anniversary edition of the album, but "Frail Limb Nursery" was still cut because it sampled audio from ''Crime Scene''.
24	* TheMerch: In perhaps one of the more ill-thought moves of their career, the band launched their own clothing line in 2008, titled ''Tattered and Torn'' after the song. Taking many cues from the ''Affliction'' brand, T&T doesn't explicitly specialize in ''Slipknot'' merch, but [[http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=101703 many designs]]. These were sold at [=HotTopic=].
25	* MultiDiscWork: Most of the band's video albums starting from ''Disasterpieces'' are split between two tapes/discs on VHS/DVD releases.
26	* PromotedFanboy:
27	** Prior to joining in 1997, Corey Taylor (who was solely the frontman of Stone Sour at the time) attended the very first Slipknot performance and recalled being "mesmerized" by their music and vowing to himself that he'd be their singer one day. A year later, they approached him with the opportunity.
28	** Jay Weinberg went to a blind audition in Los Angeles one day in 2014 and discovered that he was 20 minutes away from jamming with a band he'd idolized for 15 years.
29	* ThePeteBest: Anders Coselfni, Donnie Steele, Josh Brainard and Greg "Cuddles" Welts.
30	* ReclusiveArtist: Craig Jones. Only a few photos exist of him unmasked, and he's known for being a very quiet and private person compared to his bandmates.
31	* ReferencedBy: In ''Manga/KeepYourHandsOffEizouken'', one extra can be spotted wearing a baseball cap that reads [[BlandNameProduct "Sipknt"]] [sic].
32	* SleeperHit: The self-titled, and, honestly, the band in general. [[WordOfGod As per Corey Taylor]], they were the one band on Roadrunner's roster that ''wasn't'' expected to go anywhere; they were a bunch of broke, drunk, and stoned twentysomethings from a part of the US that no one cared about with an extremely aggressive, abrasive, and generally not mainstream-friendly style who were hoping to maybe clear 200,000 units (which, at the time, was the bare minimum needed to convince a major label that you were worth their time and money) and thought that Amen (whose debut was being mixed around the time that they were recording) was going to be the band that was going to blow up. Instead, they went platinum in less than a year, wound up getting pushed up to direct support on a tour with Coal Chamber just so people wouldn't leave halfway through the night after they got off, and became something pretty close to a household name by 2001. Oh, and Amen? They barely sold 15,000 copies in their first year with their Roadrunner debut (much to the chagrin of Corey Taylor, who genuinely loved the album and ''wanted'' them to get huge).
33	* ThrowItIn: At the start of "Get This", the engineer says "Gimme a scream, Corey." Corey obliges. At the end of the song, someone yells "Yeah!"
34	* TroubledProduction: ''Vol. 3'' got off to a rough start, to say the least. Following ''Iowa'' and subsequent touring, most of the band members ventured off into various side projects. Upon reuniting alongside producer Music/RickRubin and being moved out to his Houdini Mansion in Los Angeles to record the album, most if not all of the members weren't on speaking terms, and collectively contributed nothing to the album for three months, wasting away thousands of dollars whilst living inside the mansion. Even when they eventually gave themselves a kick in the ass to begin properly working on the record, Taylor still found himself drinking heavily throughout the entirety of recording, leading to some supposedly less-than-stellar vocal performances that ended up in the final product. This wasn't helped by the fact that Rubin himself did not often show up for recording sessions (and didn't do a goddamn thing when he did), as well as the Houdini Mansion's documented paranormal activities spooking the band members. Nonetheless, the album was certified platinum, and is considered by many to be Slipknot's best.
35	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Thomson and Root apparently tracked at least a few solos on the self-titled album and possibly ''Iowa'' as well, but they wound up getting cut from the final product.

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