“The primary Slipknot album modified the sport. I’d solely have been about seven when it got here out, so the primary time I heard them was Duality from Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses). That made me go to Virgin Megastore and purchase the self-titled album, and that was it. Listening to this was such a change to what I used to be used to listening to, which was Nickelback. After which seeing the aesthetics, the masks, the boilersuits, seeing how they’d act onstage, it made me go, ‘I wish to be [drummer] Joey Jordison. I wish to be a part of a band. I wish to do all these things.’
“I cherished their picture and the entire aesthetic, giving themselves numbers as an alternative of names and stuff. I keep in mind watching an interview with Clown [percussionist Shawn Crahan] the place he was speaking about how he had set the thought for a picture earlier than the band began. It was mainly: ‘It’s essential to be Slipknot each minute of the day. You stroll into the venue, you’re Slipknot.’ He wished them to have that aura of, ‘Oh shit, Slipknot are right here…’ It’s not a personality that will get switched on. I believe that is fucking superior. It is one thing I actually wished to do with Graphic Nature, however it did not go the way in which I wished to. You may’t put on windbreakers all day in the summertime. Does not work.
“I believed all of them had actually cool masks. Paul Grey’s pig one was sick, Sid’s [Wilson, DJ] gasoline masks is sick. My favorite was Joey’s. The factor that I actually appreciated about it was it was so human that it seemed creepy. It was only a pale face and he’d have the black traces across the eyes. And it didn’t change a lot, which was additionally what I appreciated about Mick’s [Thomson, guitar] – it was a easy concept that seemed wonderful, and it hasn’t actually modified because the starting.
