The band member's names are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. As normal people they are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray, Chris Fehn, James Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thompson, and Corey Taylor. Each member chose and created their own mask. The members of the band are not defined as individual dew to their number assignments or their masks but dew to their personal instrumental talent. Their line up has changed many times since their start in early 1995. All native Iowans, their rather unassuming, un-happening locale gave the members plenty of space and time to perfect their unusual take on their bond of friendship or as "a family unit." The band recorded and distributed the self-r

Corey Taylor is considered the heart and the voice of the band. Corey is the eighth and final man behind the mask. Number eight's only two instruments are a M Shure SM58 microphone and his voice. Number eight took voice lessons for three years when he was still in high school. He worked in a pornography shop in hometown of Des Moines before joining the band. Corey is the alarmingly hypnotic front man who wears a unusually disturbing 'leather face' mask with dreads made from his own real hair, and screams out such lyrics as "You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes!" Corey is formerly the front man of a local Iowa band named "Stone Sour". Corey is unmasked on the cover of his old band "Stone Sour", and he called himself "Faith," Faith was his first name and his last name. The man with so much to say, tries to put some logic behind the whole mask idea "We aren't hiding behind these masks, we're actually revealing more to you than you might think. The mask I wear brings out all the sh!t inside me that I hate. Plus it hurts like hell, which helps my intensity."

Paul Gray has been given the number two. Paul is Slipknot's bass guitar player. Paul Gray is the one of the for founder of Slipknot aside with Shawn Crahan the Percussionist. He says that his mask is supposed to represent his indulgent personality. "When we go to radio stations for interviews, we wear the masks and never fail to freak people out. Are the masks a fetish thing? I'm definitely into that stuff. Des Moines certainly has more than its fair share of freaks!" Joe told the reporter of Metal Hammer magazine. Paul loves to be scared and to scare people.

Joey Jordinson is also known as number one to Slipknot fans. Joe learned to play his musical stying on the drums from his former high school band teacher. Number one is a talkative, diminutive lead drummer for the band. Joey has long black hair with vivid red-steaks, and wears a plain white, expressionless Japanese kabuki mask. Joey also refers to Slipknot fans as Maggots. Joe has been quoted "Ross Robinson is insane! Once when we were recording he threw a potted plant at me. It exploded on the wall all over my head and the dirt went in my mouth. It was awesome!" He has also been quoted saying "When I first came into the band I was like, 'I have to be either in this band or I have to destroy it because it's so good'" Joey says he chose Number 1 because well it works for me because it's kind of a pivotal thing for being in the bands like have to lay all the drums and guitar work. I'm always the person that has to lay something down or be the cement of the band. That's where the 1 thing came from for me." And on his mask .. "I didn't want to be just held down by one thing, I wanted to keep the whole thing like all options open. Like it's not something you can be held down to. It can be beautiful, it can be ugly, it can be disgusting, it can be all those things. Right now it's go like weird looking scars on it and sh!t. I'm marketing it up a lot different so it doesn't necessarily look the same. It's cool man I just want people to get out of it what they want."

To all the slipknot fans Craig Jones Is number five. Sampling and Media are the fields that Craig covers. A quiet lone member of Slipknot sits behind the action wearing an old race ca

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