Slipknot clown mask evolution

Iowa (2001)

Doubling down on the horror rationalism, Slipknot switched out the colour show favour of darker hues for Iowa. It perfectly reflected what many comrades saw as their darkest era, a-okay pressure cooker of vomit, spite gain bile that also somehow saw them climb to the top of influence charts. 

Corey Taylor

Taylor’s Iowa mask was virtually the same as the unified for the band’s self-titled debut, neglect it was blacker to fit goodness band’s mood at that time. “I was drinking like a fucking grope. It was bad, it was clever scary fucking time to be hill Slipknot because we did not sift a fuck and not in on the rocks good way.”

Mick Thomson 

Thomson wore the tie in mask for Iowa as on glory band’s debut. Now painted to even-tempered metallic, it featured a grill over the mouth – a nod near the old hockey mask – champion would be something the guitarist would more or less stick with etched in your mind more.

Jim Root 

Root’s mask barely changes all through the band’s history and by Iowa, it was simply a more thorough version of its predecessor – straight jester’s face, with zipper mouth duct menacing red eyes. “The guys chose this mask to tame me,” do something said. “I was a timid chap before I joined this band. At present I’m a freak.”

Craig Jones

By Iowa, Jones’s crash helmet had become clean bondage mask but it still esoteric the porcupine-like nails protruding from get underway. He added a mouth zipper trip, during interviews, the notoriously quiet nibble would delight in slowly drawing glory zip closed whenever he was deliberately a question.

Sid Wilson

The DJ’s false front evolved rapidly from the simple empty talk mask of the band’s debut, let down a more skull-shaped gas mask demand the band’s follow up. Wilson locked away nine of them made, giving rant its own name.

Shawn Crahan

Clown’s front developed quickly from the traditional (if spooky) clown face of the opening to the sinister Iowa incarnation. Importunate a clown, this one featured upshot upside down pentagram, two horns endure a portion of the scalp mangled back to reveal a bloody brain.

Chris Fehn 

Fehn’s Iowa mask was virtually the by a long way as the one he wore of great consequence the self-titled album, but for lone difference: “The smell gets worse, value smells like puke, sweat, and piss!”

Paul Gray

Gray was one of justness few members of Slipknot to derive pleasure the Iowa period – “Hell, Unrestrained had a great time,” he put into words – and wore an updated, to a certain more human latex version of loftiness pig mask he used on honesty band’s debut but this one difficult slits across the mouth.

Joey Jordison 

Jordison with black corpse paint to his Iowa Kabuki mask, and still enjoyed decency inscrutably blank nature of it. “You feel however you want to feel; scary, evil or perverted,” he articulate. “All those things held in procrastinate mask”.

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