Multi-platinum masked metal juggernauts Slipknot have had their share of interpersonal conflict over the years. With 9 members in close proximity for lengthy periods of time navigating the pressures of success amid a culture substance abuse in their earlier years, there were plenty of raw nerves hit.
Vocalist Corey Taylor recently delved into one of those moments that made its way into the public eye. Speaking on the recent dissolution of Jane’s Addiction following on onstage fight between band members in Boston, MA, Taylor weighed in on one of his own darkest moments with his bandmates that made it to the public eye.
Appearing on a newly released episode of ‘Your Mom’s House‘, Taylor expressed the regret he had for blowing up at his Slipknot bandmate Sid Wilson amid the filming for the group’s 4x multi-platinum 2002 live concert film ‘Disasterpieces‘. That outing captured the outfit’s February 16th, 2002 performance at the the London Dockland Arena in London, England.
The footage of that blow-up between Taylor and Wilson was widely circulated and can be seen below:
Taylor recalled of that moment in this new podcast [transcribed by theprp.com]:
“I know bands have been around for five years that had that shit happen. You know, it’s just, you just never know. When you spend that much time on the road with people, and you go from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, and everything in between. Shit’s gonna get personal.
And you just never know what’s gonna happen on any given day. Sid and I, who was one of my best friends, my brother, I almost killed him one night.
When we were recording ‘Disasterpieces‘ at London — I want to say it was London aren, but I might be wrong — he did exactly what we told him not to do. And I was so fucking pissed. I was also hammered, so that didn’t fucking help anything. He came back — and there’s a clip online — and it’s so taken out of context.
We all had, most of us had body cameras. So what he would do is, he would go out into the middle of the audience when we would do the sitdown part during “Spit It Out“. And we told him not to do it this time, because we didn’t want people to steal those cameras. And he did, and they did, and he didn’t understand why we were mad.
And he comes back and he goes — I’m fucking livid — and he goes, ‘Dude, you got to tell them to give the fucking camera back.’ And I just whipped around on him. I was just, ‘Shut your fucking mouth.’ it’s one of the most evil moments of my life, and I just didn’t give a shit. And to this day, I feel bad about it.
And it’s a very real moment that’s out there for everybody to see, and taken out of context, it’s so fucking horrible, right?”
He continued:
“I mean, when he blew himself up recently, because he’s Sid I FaceTimed him, and he was in the ER, and I was just like [worried]. But he was also one of the first people to call me after my spinal surgery. So, like, that’s how close we are.”
In the past Taylor has spoken about a separate altercation with Wilson, which saw them actually exchange blows. Taylor was also regretful of that incident, however as per the context of the aforementioned podcast episode, that moment didn’t play out amid a concert.
