![]() ![]() The mask was allegedly inspired by his mother, who wore it one Halloween and scared the living piss out of a young, drunken Joey. The disguise Joey was most famed for – albeit the weathered, All Hope Is Gone version is much gnarlier – is the harsh stone white, petrifying Japanese Kabuki mask from the first three records. Still not quite as cool as being held upside down while you play Surfacing, though. ![]() He would occasionally play in a jazz band led by his stepfather Michael, a clarinet player. Ushering out the nu metal influences and pouring in more and more of Jordison’s extreme metal knowledge, Iowa had Slipknot ready to drag listeners’ brains straight out of their ears. They received almost unanimous praise across the board and hit #1 in the UK album charts, becoming the first – and probably last – record containing blastbeats to do so. The band were at loggerheads throughout the entire creative process but Christ, was it worth it this was possibly Slipknot’s greatest moment. Named after the ‘Knot’s home state, Iowa was largely conceived by Joey and Paul in a relatively short period of time. Jordison quit the following year, claiming that his side-project Slipknot was taking up too much of his time. The Have Nots are a Des Moines punk band formed by the late Paul Gray and briefly featured Jordison on guitar in 1996. I won’t use them for anyone else besides Slipknot, if that ever happens again.” Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I’ve been in, sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot and I just can’t use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened. I wake up and there’s a riff in my head, every step I take there’s a riff, a beat, or something. ![]() He told Hammer in 2018: “I play guitar all the time and I’m constantly thinking of songs. He was always writing, and even after his departure from the band, he'd still end up playing with that sickening, unmistakably 'Knotian flare in mind. Vocalist Wednesday 13 is nowadays regarded as a hero of horror rock – if not for Jordison’s ridiculous profile and involvement with this project, Wednesday’s career could well have died alongside the legacy of the Frankenstein Drag Queens.Īside from wielding that bloody BC Rich Warlock in Murderdolls, Joey was a dab hand at riffs with Slipknot. The lyrics and content were changed (example: Galactic Chicken Shit was renamed Slit My Wrist), the production was beefed up and this essentially became Joey plugging in his guitar and turning one of his favourite punk bands into a snotty, pissed off metal act. You’ll probably know it as Murderdolls – so did we – but just about all of the tracks from Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls are rewritten and rerecorded cuts from the Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 catalogue. F is for… Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 ![]()
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