Corey Taylor Quotes & Trivia

Trivia

Corey has such a large collection of comics and action figures he had to move it into a storage space.

Corey and the other members of Slipknot appeared unmasked in the video for "Before I Forget", but they were careful not to reveal too much.

Corey has said that the pain his new mask causes helps him in singing more aggressive vocals.

He doesn't have dreadlocks anymore, and his own purple/blue/red-dyed hair can be seen.

Corey's "Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses" mask has a strap running behind his head. It is a dark green/grey, and has stitches molded into it.

Slipknot's 2004 album, "Vol.3: The Subliminal Verses", doesn't contain as much screaming as in the past two albums, because Corey's voice got somewhat damaged during the IOWA tour.

He used to have an alcohol problem, but his wife helped him to overcome the addiction.

He currently lives in Des Moines, Iowa.

Both masks he wears with Slipknot bear a resemblance to that of Leatherface, the chainsaw wielding maniac of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

The first mask he wore with Slipknot had dreadlocks.

After they saw Corey while versing Stone Sour in a concert, Slipknot members Mick, Shawn and Paul confronted Corey in the sex shop where he was working and threatened that they would "kick his ass if he didn't join Slipknot".

Before Slipknot wore identical coveralls, Corey wore a priest costume. This earned him the nickname “Faith”, which he still hates to this day.

Corey originally wanted to play drums in Slipknot.

"Spit It Out" is the first song that Corey and Slipknot put together from scratch as a whole band. All the other songs were already written or they just re-did them.