Slipknot’s Clown explains why their followers are known as “maggots”
Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan has defined why the band refers to their followers as “maggots”.
In an interview with the Independent, Crahan – the band’s percussionist – mentioned the concept for the identify originated many years in the past.
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“I used to take images of lifeless deer,” he mentioned. “Their stomachs have been stuffed with maggots. Slipknot as a band, we cope with plenty of stuff, and I figured maggots cope with the worst stuff of all.”
He continued: “They cope with all of the dying and shit after which, on the finish of it, they develop wings and switch into flies, then that fly will come again and lay an egg.”
He added that he sees Slipknot followers like these flies: “You’re 14 and you are feeling that insurrection in you. The world is telling you no; you hearken to us, and we aid you discover confidence to say sure. Then there comes a day if you may get married, have a child, get a job, no matter.
“Slipknot’s not your on a regular basis life any extra, however you continue to hear it. I name followers maggots as a result of they develop wings they usually come again. If we’re fortunate, they arrive again with their offspring. I’ve bought two, three generations of maggots. It’s cool.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Crahan defined why he was extra open to talking to a newspaper as a substitute of a music journal.
“I’ve a greater likelihood of explaining myself than with a rock-and-roll journal, which is only a shit-show and a waste of my time as a result of all they need to know is what the masks are for.”
Corey Taylor just lately revealed his favorite Slipknot masks in a latest Reddit AMA (Ask Me Something) with followers.
To have fun the discharge of the band’s seventh album ‘The Finish, So Far’ which got here out final week, the frontman answered a series of fan questions on the social platform.
Requested by a fan to choose his favorite masks from all through his time within the band, Taylor replied “this one”, referring to his present one.
In a four-star overview of ‘The Finish, So Far’, NME wrote: “Except for the blood, the gore, the theatrics and the noise, there’s clearly at all times been far more to the band’s means to shock and shock – and now it appears their subsequent left flip of an period may very well be their most daring but. As Taylor warns on the old-school ‘Tallica-worthy enviornment shredder of album centre-piece ‘Guarantee’: ‘Isn’t this what you got here right here for?’”