Slipknot Masks Meaning – Slipknot Unleashed!
2009/07/19 - By Kurt Avish - 11,122 views
You could not yet guess it but this is the new series of articles about Slipknot which is starting on this damn Island of Crisis! This will be about 10 articles to follow and if you listen to real music e.i Slipknot then glue your eyes here often as many things will be revealed. Welcome People!

SLIPKNOT UNLEASHED
Ever had the slight useful time to think what is the meaning behind each Slipknot mask? Instead of targeting your brain onto that sickening earphone of Panasonic(or whatever the hell you use), you better know the meanings. It means!
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So you ever thought why Slipknot member wear masks? No not to show their mask of to your eyes! Neither to make you have nightmares at night (as if you still do it when watching weird masks)! Slipknot wear these masks because they do not want The People to look at the body and whatever the hell people like to look in a human. They want you to forget their real face or body to concentrate on the music. The masks…because it also help them switch to their stage personality.

Personality switching…That’s really interesting you know? You don’t? You don’t tweak yourself enough then! You should try it..it helps a damn lot!
As you already know (if you are a fan) or if you are just learning it right now, Slipknot has 9 members. They are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray, Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor. More about them? Sure the articles are coming soon for each one of them! For now let us see the real meaning behind their masks. The masks have been subject to evolution over the years but at the core of them, they each have some basic meaning.
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| Corey Taylor – His mask represent h@te and the pain exhibited in a dummy who could not shout it out for so much time! |
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| Mick Thompson – His mask simply means H@te and his most recent one mean a hatred that has become more fierce! |
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| Shawn Crahan – The clown! His mask represent his own death! He wants it funny. |
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| Craig Jones – His mask mean absolute pain! |
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| Jim Root – His mask means the prankster! Simply his other side. |
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| Chris Fehn – He has about 5 different masks. He is mostly known as the long nose! The meaning? He says even he does not know about it yet! So how can I know!! |
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| Paul Gray – Paul’s mask represent black death and breathing problem! Why? You will see it in the coming respective post! |
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| Joey Jordison – Joey mask represent the emotionless! He says that once his own mother wore a mask similar to this on Haloween after being drunk! Emotionless can either really be with no emotion or even hiding real emotion! |
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| Sid Wilson – It is said that he is the craziest of the band! His oxygen mask supposedly show his disliking of the Oxygen element. In its absence for short time he make hallucinations. |
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You’re a fan and you wanna more! I know. So you should keep tune with this bloody blog as this is just the begining of Slipknot Unleashed! Coming next is Slipknot Mask Evolution (5 whole articles)! And to end this special series it will be a post about the real faces of ALL the slipknot members.
HMF!! I just realised that I have been editing this post since the last 4 damn hours. The upcoming posts which consist of 5 more upcoming articles will present to you all about the facts and secrets of the members of Slipknot. The next should be on tomorrow! So keep your organic visual organ on spy here.





















Man!
slipknot is just so fu*king cool!
Been really interested to know more abt the mask worn by
mike!!
like a lot his crazy picking style and yeah, his mask is very much compatible
with the IBANEZ!!!
i do really believe in this ‘personality switching’ thing! bcauz
maybe without these masks slipknot would not have been abl to
carry out such sensation they created among all youngsters around the world,
No i’m not saying that they got fame just bcauz of these masks(they r fu*king talented!), but by wearing a mask you’ll b able to push all your fu*king limit,
u’ll not remain a simple guitarist on stage, but a real lead picking monster!!!!!!!
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Kurt Avish Reply:
July 20th, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Yay! And also these mask help a lot in personality changing. Its like a totally another person on the stage. Uncaring of what the hell the bloody mass is thinking or not. The music come first whether the damn f@gss like it or not.
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huh srry, typing error!
its mick not mike
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I didnt know about the meaning of the mask.
On other way hand maybe they wanted to be popular and wanted to make the difference.
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Kurt Avish Reply:
July 24th, 2009 at 8:00 AM
@priscus, The mask did make the difference in their show-type. However they got real talent too. The masks are just the boost. Their talent rocks.
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what really made the contrast between them and other bands,
was the way they played!
this is real BRUTAL metal!!!!!!!!!!
no other bands, at that time was as powerful as them,
i mean, the rapidity of the drums, lightning of the guitar picks
and at the same time being so fu*king melodious!!
wearing these masks was good, but what really captivated fans all these years
was their music!!!!
take me as example, i have been listening to them since about 10 yrs, and still
no 1 could compare their music to other today’s popular bands!!
they created their own genre: BRUTAL METAL!!
it’s same as Kurt Cobain with grunge!
or even Jimi Hendrix’s experimental guitar playing which inspired others!!!
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man, kurt ur too good…u spend time on makin this blog
i realy admire how u apreciate slipknt, ur a great fan!!
Hail metal!
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Kurt Avish Reply:
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Thanks.
Slipknot kill’em all
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Slipknot is the real brute melody. They are the best.
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MUTHAF*CKERS THEIR MASKS IS COPIED FROM MUSHROOMHEAD!
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you spelled halloween wrong. theres 2 L’s
good job on the rest though. you see to put a lot of effort.
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you guys are f*cking amazing, see for the last 12 months ive been in afghanistan and you guys have helped with the bullsh*t in this f*cked up place by letting me lose my mind in your music well thanx time go.
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Good article, but so many spelling errors it made it hard to read.
His mask represent his own death! <–represents
His mask mean absolute pain! <— means
Plenty more grammatical errors.
If you are gonna write something and put it where everyone reads it, at least proofread it or have someone else go over it. Other then the above stuff, good article very informative.
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