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Scissors Monologue (Manchester, England 2000)

“just what exactly does your skin hide?  the little secrets deep inside.  your whole life you’ve been wrapped in the dead cells of another life.  Your whole life you’ve been wrapped in the dead cells of another life. The only time that you come out, the only time the truth comes out is when the knife slips into your lap. The only time the truth comes out is when the knife slips into your lap.  The whole fucking world is afraid of you.  The whole world knows, feels, that is afraid of every one of you.  They’re afraid because we can take over. They’re afraid because we can kill every lie that they’ve hoped to live.  They’re afraid because too much skin has to give away.  They’re afraid because the real skin is coming out, and the old skin is about to be shed.  The new skin is breaking free, and the old skin is melting away.  All your pain, all your suffering, is nothing compared to real life.  Your muscles ache you can’t breathe, where is the life that you were promised?  Where is it?  Where is the life you were promised?  Run the circle break a bone.  All I want to do is left alone.  How many of you want to fucking die?  All I really want to do is fucking die?  Do you want to die?  I feel alive, I stay alive, but I’m inside.”

*Special thanks to KnotTime for the upload.  Incredible performance and monologue.  Please check out the video (Parts 1 and 2, this is part 1, part 2 is in the suggested videos) and his channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nee-K07yxJY*

Scissors Monologue (Stockholm, Sweden 1999)

“How long did it stop you
The very essence of the sicness
It shows in your eyes, it shows in your sweat, you can feel it like a pulse inside.  The sicness has a thousand new faces now. 
The face of the real, the hip, the cosmic snow, the comotose, you all feel it, tiny bits inside your mind.  The truth of the matter that no one cares.  No one else can live.  You’re made to live to help.  The leash is what i despise, they’ll rattle at your brain, but your mask can change all that.  You’ll let the blood flow from the sweat, the sweat flows from the skin, the skin hangs from the bone, the bone breaks like (inaudible.)  This is real.  You are real.  The noise in your head is real.  They blind you with the same shit.  And spit it at you like an animal in a zoo.  The evil is tangible.  You can feel it.  Can you feel it?  Can you feel it?  Do you feel it?  Can you fucking feel it?  Do you want to live or die?  Scream if you want to live!  Scream if you want to die!  The life is you.  The blood is life.  Your face is pain, and no one cares.  Can you feel the line twist, can you feel it sit, does it hear you?  Does it fucking hear you!  You can fucking cut, if it fucking changes, it doesn’t matter, nothing matters, except this, nothing is real, except this.  Feel this.  Live this.  Love this.  You can feel this.  You can feel this.  You can feel this.  You can feel this.  You can feel this.  You can feel this.  You can feel this.  You can feel this.  You can feel this.  Let me know you can feel this.  You know you can feel this.  Live or fucking die.”

Scissors is a real song, a song that you feel in your bones and that torments your head, that pierces your soul and runs through your blood.  It is real and you can feel this, as Corey says.  Although these monologues aren’t in the studio version, I think of them as a part of the song.  They are real and they are something we can believe in.  I believe in them.  In these Monologues.  Believe and embrace the sicness, become the sicness. 

*Special thanks to MetalPharmacy for his upload of this incredible performance and monologue.  Please check the video out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpV9ijroE5o&feature=sub*

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Further Analysis of Slipknot’s Masks During The Self Titled Era

-#0 (Sid Wilson)
“Wearing this mask prevents the oxygen from going to my skull. I get hallucinations and stuff. Half the time, I don’t know what’s going on around me. Its up to the clown to intimidate me and keep me in line.”
 ”That’s too much of a deeper conversation to get into. You need much more time to ask me a question like that, Another time.”

-#1 (Joey Jordinson)
Joey wears a Japanese Noh mask.  He chose this mask for several reasons, one because as a child his mother wore the mask one year after returning home drunk, and the emotionless stare of the mask terrified him, and two, “The design enables it to feel however you want it to feel; scary, evil or perverted. All those things held in one mask”.

-#2 (Paul Gray)
His mask on the self titled album was a latext pig mask. “Right now it represents breathing problems and it’s somewhat more uncomfortable than the last ones”

-#3 (Chris Fehn)
Chris wears a Pinnocchio style mask, which is inspired by several different things.  Firstly, the masks worn by doctors during the Black Plauge, and secondly the mask worn by Alex in A Clockwork orange.

-#4 (Jim Root)
Jim wore a Jester’s mask for the Self Titled album, although at first he wore the mask of the guitarist he replaced, Josh Brainard, which was a black bondage mask.

-#5 (133, Craig Jones)
On the self titled album Craig wore a type of divers helmet with goggles, and long nails sticking out of it.  It is said to represent pain. 

-#6 (The Clown, Shawn Crahan)
Shawn wears a clown’s mask on the self titled album, and often played live with several variations of it.
“I’ve wanted to be a clown because there’s something nice about me, and something pretty twisted as well. If someone stares at me on my way to the stage, I don’t get up until they look away first.”
“I’m going to fucking kill every motherfucker here! What was the question? The mask? IT represents my death.”

-#7 (Mick Thomson)
During the self titled era Mick wore a Jason style dark green hockey mask, which evolved into a silver leather metal looking mask which is his trademark for the self titled era.

-#8 (Corey Taylor)
On the self titled album Corey’s mask was inspired by a type of halloween crash test dummy.  The dreads were made of his own hair.  “Twenty-seven, What does that mean? You’ll figure it out” “Complete pain, it represents everything I fucking rally against, there is so much hate, blood, spit and puke in that fucking mask just from playing, I put it on every night and I remember why I am playing. I go from me now to the person I was when I wrote the songs.”

*UPCOMING POSTS*

-All About Craig Jones

Analysis of Slipknot’s Iowa Era (2001-2003)

“You know like this planet was fine before we arrived, you know, and not necessarily our intentions like that, like people destroy the planets or anything like that, we’re not activists like that whatsoever but, when we were forming the band you know we got, it was that constant pushed aside pushed aside no one wanted to listen to us and we were trying to make a positive music scene where we were from, so, we kind of adopted that moniker, and when i went out on tour i realized how much that moniker holds true, there is so many money hungry greedy people especially in this industry, everyone’s got the thing in their life that makes them, not necessarily they’ve got the evil side, and the shit doesn’t necessarily have to be that word, you know what i mean?  It’s a moniker and i think when people chant those songs back to us like the first song we’re playing that is people=shit, it’s more like everyone has like those types of things like they want to retaliate against, so that’s where our phrase comes in, you got those people you probably feel that way about and that’s why we have that phrase, we’re the perfect band to make sure that stands out correctly.”
-Joey on Why People=Shit
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm4pN42qJRA)

“There’s two types of people in the world.  There are sheeps and there are goats.  Obviously I think you can figure out who we are.
-Clown

“Before it was like pay attention to me.  I got something to say and I’m going to prove it to you.  Now dude, said it, done it, we’ve done it, we don’t care.”
-Clown

Interviewer: “The title of the album being Iowa a lot of people think its just because where you’re from, but it speaks more to the landscape of the record right?”
Joey: “Yeah it’s very dark, it’s very dry, it’s straight to the point.”
Interviewer: “… what happens in the studio that sends you there (to that dark place)”
Corey:  “A lot of violence, a lot of vomit, a lot of depression, a lot of emotions running over, a lot of crying, a lot of losing your mind,a lot of isolation.”
Clown: “A lot of feeling like a pre kindergarten boy being teased because he’s too fat.”
Clown: “Mentally, physicially, and spiritually we’re getting broke every day.  It’s just a hit to the head everyday everyday everyday everyday everyday.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPp7xAiz1zw)

“When we did “Iowa”, we hated each other. We hated the world; the world hated us.”
-Clown
(http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=88079)

Somewhere over the railroad, dead crows lie. There’s a land that you’ve dreamed of, once in a mad clown’s eye. While Eminem scrapes the grim flipside of the American Dream and Limp Bizkit grope the plump psyche of the American Teen, Slipknot’s third album is the work of men whose world exists entirely behind their masks. Named after the home that shaped them, ‘Iowa’ is one hell of a mental state.

Misanthropy, solipsism, disgust: there’s nothing here but the dark, derelict landmarks of the tortured soul. If they seemed like daft panto gimmickry when they first stuck their Scooby Doo heads over the parapet, Slipknot have become exceptionally convincing nihilists. And, after listening to ‘Iowa’, you realise their nothing is very special indeed.
Admittedly, these are songs so adolescently self-centred you’d have to head to Ramsey Street to find more pre-adult agony, yet having an immature ego has never been a stumbling block to rock mastery. And if their world revolves around them and their paranoia, it’s because they’ve constructed it to do just that. Like the art of the insane, every possible space is covered in scrawl and cymbals: guitars, percussion, electronic squall, subhuman screaming, Ross Robinson’s production ensuring the music lets no light in, that you can never quite see round the edges. At its occasional worst - ‘New Abortion’, ‘Shape’ - it sounds like ill-aimed projectile loathing, yet elsewhere they’ve worked out that there are 50 ways to smash a cranium, from the nauseous glory of ‘People=Shit’ - a Coke ad waiting to happen - to the boilersuited fight song ‘Heretic Anthem’.
The excellent ‘Everything Ends’ (“I think I’m gonna be sick and it’s your fault”, growls nervous-breakdown-on-legs Corey) is momentarily Nirvana-like, a melodic fin sharks through the filthy noise of ‘My Plague’ while the scrapyard baroque of ‘Skin Ticket’ is Phantom Of The Opera with real Phantoms. And, having abundantly fulfilled their brief, they even get away with a closing 15-minute title track which is, ludicrously, almost post-rock, a suite of bass menace, muttering and incipient apocalypse that makes you wonder whether it’s Godspeed who’ve been lurking behind those masks all along.
Think you’re going to be sick and it’s their fault? Then their work here is done. People might well equal shit, but sometimes, they care enough to make records this exhilarating, this brutal, this good. It could almost restore your faith in humanity.

Victoria Segal

8 out of 10
(http://www.nme.com/reviews/slipknot/5924)

My Interpretation of Iowa:

Iowa represents relationships, all relationships, whether it be with a friend, with fans, with the music industry, or with an enemy or enemies. 
He can’t have her, he can’t make the industry or his enemies happy, and as a result he retreats deeper into the protection that hate provides him.
(Or rather, his cage, i.e. Skin Ticket.)  His life becomes nothing, he collapses into hate and insanity and wonders if he ever existed and how he got to where he is now.
He finally can’t take it anymore and decides he must have her.  In the end he tortures and kills her to have her, to love her, because he isn’t capable of anything anymore.

Iowa is a dark album, and should be approached as such.  Because of this, it is not an easy listen and it is not an album to stroll in the park with.  It is an album to hate and suffer to, it is an album that shows us who we are in the grasp of hate and is the embodiment and dwelling place of hate. 

Coming Soon:

*Iowa (Self Titled Song) Analysis

*Iowa Picture Gallery

Rare Craig Jones (#5, 133) Interview From 1999

Note: This is not a fake, it is available on a Russian Slipknot Fan Site.  http://slipknot1.info/page.php?id=153
I do apologize for the translation, but it was the best I could do.  Stay sic and enjoy maggots!

?: How [nachinala]c[] group? How you were encountered and how much you were already together?

Craig: Group they began into 1995 *6 (Sean) and *2 (Paul). We traversed many changes of compositions in the subsequent 4 years and stopped at nine, whom we are today and. Each in the group knew each other many years, because Demoines not of the large cities, and we everything were in other different groups, and they were combined in these years.

?: How you would describe your music?

Craig: Ross Robinson best anything described it as “cast it threw”.

?: Your very clouts?

Craig: In general everything us influenced. I imply, with 9 fellows in the group, we all listen to different styles of music. All these different styles make possible for us to be very creative in our process of writing songs. Obviously, our music is very heavy by nature, so group as Black Of sabbath, Slayer, old Metallica, Anthrax, and a similar material - much influenced all us.

?: What influence, in your opinion, group does have in the music and [metal] today?

Craig: This group was begun from the prerequisite, that we always wanted to make something another. It threw it became partly stale and old for the past 4 or 5 years, and we wanted to restore its and to give to it very necessary kick under rear I think the fact that we we make very originally, and that this will be “new wave” it threw for the following millenium.

?: What did force you to want to be in the group? And if you were not in the group, that you would make now?

Craig: I was joined to the group as guitarist after approximately 4 months after its conception. Fellows recently concluded the record of our first CD (Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.), and their guitarist at that time solved, that he does not want this more to make. When I for the first time heard several [trekov] of the fact that they made, I similar: “[Nifiga]! This is [potryasno]!”. I accurately knew at that moment, that this was the group, which I waited. I more lately was switched to [samples] and key-actuated, because I was only who it had although some idea as this do. If I was not in the group, then I probably still would work on the storage, he would drive on the hoist the whole day.

?: Someone of the members of group does consist of the [sayd]- projects? If yes, that this for the projects, and describe a little about them.

Craig: #8 (by Cory) recently [zakonichil] the record of several vocal [trekov] from Sticky Of fingers from Onyx. Sticky heard about Robinson’s Cory from Ross, who [prodyusiruet] its [sayd]- project, by which it is occupied. Sticky it heard Cory on our album and wanted it to ripe on several [trekakh], so that by Cory it took a trip to Indigo Of ranch, when we were in Los Angeles to Ozzfest and it wrote lyric poetry and it was ripe on several [trekakh].

?: What you did feel, if group did take its sound in your and did become very well known?

Craig: I assume, this it would be steeply. I imply, such will be. Each time appears something new, and it is copied. This is simple the method of [myuzik]- business. But we always attempt to be new and with original - we constantly change, so that I think that we will in the state survive all group- imitators, who will arise.

?: What today’s groups you do love or do respect?

Craig: System of a Of down is real they are steep. The group, which actually astonished me to Ozzfest, was Puya. These fellows are absolutely slaughter.

?: Is how much in you [demo]/of albums? Describe to me about them!!

Craig: Is only our first CD “Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. ”, which no longer is accessible, and our similar CD, which left only on June 29.

?: By what [demo]/album you does please more?

Craig: Similar, which recently left absolutely slaughter. I imply, I love the first album, which we made, but it is not simply compared with the new. We now absolutely another group, and new best anything transfers group, those that we today.

?: What value in songs?

Craig: Songs have many different values. In Cory many “problems” in its head, and it solves them through writing of lyric poetry.

?: What dear songs in group?

Craig: I personally love “Prosthetics”. This song was nearly excluded from the album, I greatly was broken off, if it was not included on.

?: What in the future in group?

Craig: In the future there are many stages. We love to play [vzhivuyu], and everything that we want to make - to play in so many places, in how many let us be able.

?: If you could play with any group, who this would be and why?

Craig: Is probable Black Of sabbath. This would be steeply, because they kings - they all this began.

?: Who writes the majority of music?

Craig: We all insert our contribution to the process of writing songs. Someone reef will play, and then someone will add still something, and this simply proceeds from there. Each introduces its contribution, and songs simply are developed until we are satisfied, this the method, by which we want so that this would be.

?: What there was the dear group, with which you did play and why?

Craig: Puya and Hed (pe) were actually steep. We spent well with them time to Ozzfest, and I hope that we will be able to complete stage with them again once.

?: From where did undertake the name of group?

Craig: Name appeared from the song, which was, was called “Slipknot”, which now on the new album is called (sic). Name seemed steep, so that we took it.

?: Describe that, on what is similar the group alive?

Craig: As two automobiles, that are encountered into the frontal. Everything occurs anything, when we on the scene.

?: If you did intend to make any video, which in it was?

Craig: Actually, we made video “Of spit It Of out”, it was mainly made for [promoushena] abroad, but it could finally obtain a certain rotation here in the states.

?: There are whether any plans of stages; if yes, describe to me about them?

Craig: We intend to go by [khedlaynerami] from Coal Of chamber and Machine Of head, after beginning on August 19 in Texas.

?: Where in your opinion group will be in 20 years?

Craig: We hope will still accomplish stages and create music, which we love. We all will be in this thus far we happy, we will continue to be occupied by this so for long, how much let us be able.