In it, a woman puts the mask on and is immediately confronted by the band, whom she then dances with. Replicas were released as merch and sold unsurprisingly well, while the genuine article reappears in the music video for Vermilion. Much like the Iowa goat, the maggot mask has become a recurring symbol in the Slipknot universe.
3 song Pulse Of The Maggots, an anthem dedicated to their acolytes. What Clown came up with was the “maggot mask”: a new, leather mask named after what Slipknot call their fanbase, unifying the band and their audience. We wouldn’t be where we’re at if it wasn’t for our fans.” So I kept asking myself, ‘What is it that ties us together?’ And the answer has always been our fans. We were reuniting and rehabilitating ourselves after the hellish Iowa cycle. At the time, we were in a real weird place together as a band.
3, there was a theme I needed to figure out. Clown wrote in a 2009 blog post: “When I was working on Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses and gradually stopped wanting to murder one another, the band set out to make their newest cover present them as a united front again. The Nine needed a break after the cycle, so Corey Taylor and Jim Root reformed Stone Sour, Joey Jordison co-founded the Murderdolls and Sid Wilson resurrected his DJ Starscream persona. This time it was a profile view of a goat’s head hanging on a wall by its horns: suitably gruesome stuff for Knot's darkest output to date.īurnout, industry pressure and multiple members wrestling with addiction meant that the Iowa sessions almost ripped Slipknot apart.
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Furthermore – on August 28, 2001, the day the album came out – sixteen record stores in the UK opened at midnight and gave free copies to anybody that rocked up with a live goat.Ī decade later, Iowa’s tenth-anniversary re-release gave the album a visual overhaul, using another photograph from the same shoot as the original. One shows up in the Left Behind video, and others have since appeared on the band’s coveralls and merchandise. The goat became a mascot for the band during and after the Iowa cycle. “I came up with the concept and I so badly wanted to shoot the second album cover, and I just couldn’t get it done. “My mentor who got me going into photography, Stefan Seskis, he shot the first album cover,” Clown continued in the same Hammer interview. And we know that Clown wanted it to be Iowa’s artwork really, really badly. The goat is called Eeyore: a name that it shares with the hidden track tagged on to the end of Scissors, the last song on Slipknot. It’s for the end times to put the whole picture together, so I’m not going to go into that.” In a 2021 interview with Hammer, The Nine’s co-founder and custom percussionist said: “The cover has a lot of symbolic, metaphoric solutions in it for everyone in our culture.
That is, nobody except Clown – and he seems to like it that way. No one knows why there’s a goat on the front of Slipknot’s second album, Iowa.
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