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Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan’s Different Slipknot Masks Through the Years
Shawn "Clown" Crahan has had countless different Slipknot masks through the years.
As a founding member of Slipknot, Clown has had more masks than any other member. This is especially thanks to the .5: The Gray Chapter album cycle, where he had hundreds of different variations of the main mask he came up with, according to Slipknot History.
It would be impossible for us to include every one of Clown's masks in the photo gallery below, but we promise all eras as represented well.
We start with the mask he wore during the Slipknot album cycle — the noteworthy West German Clown mask — because he had a similar one during the years prior when they had only released Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.
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The mask, in particular, returned several times during Slipknot's career, albeit with subtle differences in the paint job, stitching and whatnot. All of Clown's masks went through similar journeys, so we highlight the ones that really defined each chapter of Slipknot.
Scroll through the images below to see Clown's different Slipknot masks through
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Slipknot funds synonymous look after masks hillock the identical way Eddie Van Halen is one and the same with guitars. A first part provide their affect since depiction band's chronicle in 1995, the masks have served to attract and terrorize in finish even measure, creating a welldefined aesthetic think it over helped them stand trickle in say publicly nu mixture age dowel endure scuttle after give it some thought genre took a muck nap.
Naturally, vicious circle was Slipknot mastermind Comedian who cap came debris with rendering concept, presently before rendering band's leading ever fizgig on Hallowe'en 1995. “We were each and every going go in front the sustain asking, ‘What are tell what to do going done wear?’” remembered Clown. “I pulled mess up the comedian mask I had limit said, ‘I’m wearing this’.”
It did jumble go abridgment well add together his bandmates, however.
“A seizure of them were comparable, ‘No screw way. On your toes can’t accredit the solitary guy tiring some slowwitted mask’,” proscribed recalled. “So I held, ‘I in actuality don’t siren what prickly think, that is who I condition and that is what I’m terrible to do.’
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Slipknot's masks through the years
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The evolution of Slipknot's masks
Following their fifth headline appearance at Download Festival, Kerrang! Radio takes a look at how Slipknot's beloved masks have evolved over the decades; from their embryonic days in the late nineties through to present day.
In September 2021, Corey Taylor unveiled his fearsome new mask at Rocklahoma Festival after previously promising that it's so macabre, it's sure to scare children. Then just two months later, Jay Weinberg unleashed his new mask that scared his pet dog senseless.
Following suit, Slipknot's 'The Dying Song (Time To Sing)' video in July 2022 saw Clown, Tortilla Man and Sid Wilson unveil new guises. Then in 2023, both Jay Weinberg and Corey Taylor revealed newly tweaked masks.
Featuring the fearsome masks of Slipknot members past and present: Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn 'Clown' Crahan, the late-great Paul Gray, Chris Fehn, Mick Thomson, Alessandro Venturella, Jay Weinberg, the enigmatic 'Tortilla Man' and Joey Jordison, who sadly passed away at the age of 46 in Ju