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 (MFKR vocalist) and
Josh (MFKR 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.

Craig "5" maintains Slipknot1.com while Shawn "6" and a
guitar technician work on Slipknot2.com

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.

Corey was a member of Stone Sour, who played "half
originals, half cheesy Top 40 crap". He also appeared
maskless on the cover of Stone Sour's CD.