The Slipknot vs. Mushroomhead feud has completely subsided in recent years, however again in 1999 it was nonetheless going robust. For proof, look no additional than a recently-resurfaced Slipknot present filmed in Cleveland from 1999.
Mushroomhead followers within the crowd began heckling Slipknot and throwing objects at them earlier than vocalist Corey Taylor finally had a sufficient. Proper earlier than Slipknot performed “(sic)”, Taylor yelled “Step up, pussy! Step up, bitch!” earlier than percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan dove into the gang to struggle a number of the followers.
Clown bought pulled by safety and Taylor addressed the hecklers as soon as extra. “I knew you guys would fucking present up, man. Do you guys need to see a struggle or do you need to see a fucking present, man?” mentioned Taylor, later including: “All petty fucking bullshit apart, are you able to have a superb fucking time tonight? As a result of over my fucking lifeless physique will I’ve anyone smash this fucking evening for anyone right here!”
Regardless of the confrontation and Taylor‘s phrases, the animosity between the Mushroomhead followers and Slipknot would not fairly subside by way of the entire present.
Taylor defined the feud in a 2012 Q&A with fans, saying his downside was at all times with Mushroomhead followers and never the band themselves.
“My downside has by no means been with that band, my downside was with their followers on the time,” mentioned Taylor. “The primary time we performed Cleveland, their followers got here down, thoughts you we did not fucking say shit, their followers got here down and threw all the pieces however rocks at us. They hit Paul [Gray, bassist] within the face with a padlock the scale of my fist; that is whereas we’re onstage.”
And sure – there was an altercation after the present. “After we bought executed taking part in, we took all of our shit off and went into the viewers. There have been a whole lot of them, however there was all 9 of us, there was Machine Head, and all of our mates from a band known as Amen – and let’s simply say we fucking dealt with it proper there.”
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