Slipknot entries - "The Official Heavy Metal Book of Lists"

Published 2009 (Eric Danville)

Smack-shootin, Coke-snortin', Hopped-Up, Tweaked Out Metal Tunes
~ Opium of the people 

Born to Be Wired: 10 Heavy Metal Drug Busts
~ Paul Gray 
Gray was picked up in Des Moines, Iowa, after running a red light in his Porsche and hitting another car. After police saw him stumbling and barely coherent, they searched his car and found two hypodermic needles, cocaine and marijuana. 

Metalheads Who Were Injured Onstage 
~ The various members of Slipknot have earned, between them, lacerated shins, shin splints, slipped vertebrae, dislocated shoulders, broken ankles, broken toes, broken ribs, broken collarbones, headbanging-related whiplash, and concussions. 

Metal Songs That Clear Channel Communications "Suggested" Their Radio Stations Avoid Playing After the September 11, 2001, Terror Attacks 
~ Wait and Bleed
~ Left Behind 

Give the Drummer Some: 6 Outrageous Drum Solo Stunts
~ Joey Jordison
The jazz-trained Jordison has used several rotating and tilting rigs himself, going Tommy Lee one better by having his drum kit spin horizontally like a turntable before tilting forward ninety degrees and spinning like a wheel of fortune - until the lights would go out, leaving the drum kit lit with a huge pentagram. 

Thick as a Brick: 21 Years of Metal Grammy Winners
~ 2005 - Best Metal Performance: Slipknot, "Before I Forget".

Metalheads with Signature Model Guitars
~ Mick Thomson: Ibanez MTM1 Mick Thomson signature guitar. 

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