– A Signed Autographed Slipknot Band Merchandise CD Sells For How Much?

I was surfing around on eBay today and notice that a signed autographed slipknot band merchandise cd currently had 6 bid and was already up to $45.00. There is no doubt that Slipknot is a huge phenomenon and brings in the big bucks for the selling of their rap shirts ….

Slipknot – Before I Forget

I normally don’t link directly to other peoples eBay auctions, but this listing I’ve decided to make an exception. The user Transylvanian-Bride, is using all the money raised from their auctions that will go into a trust/college fund that will be set up for their son. The family recently suffered a tragedy and the boy’s mothers and man’s wife is no longer with them. My mother died when I was 4 and tears came down my face as I read that story. They both worked in the music business and they made some wonderful friends of which many of them donated items at this time where the family needs love and comfort.

My mother died at the age of 30, but this man’s wife died at the age of 22, which in my opinion is way too young for a person to depart from this life. So I thought I’d write a small article in memory of these two women (my mother and this man’s wife) … and can’t help but wonder just how much this signed autographed slipknot band merch cd will end up selling for.

The alternative metal Slipknot Band Merchandise is signed in silver on the actual cd by all 9 members, but there is no front cover, otherwise it is mint. The seller plans to include to the winner some photos on a cd that was taken with permission so he claims they are nice shots – and I can’t help but wonder what they look like. Transylvanian-Bride will include past/present shows that he has worked on for Slipknot, a nu metal band, which includes live & backstage photos from the shows as well.

I’m probably the only person on the planet that doesn’t have an active current eBay account, so I am unable to email the sellers to inform them of this article, so if you’re reading this and have an eBay account, maybe you could do that one small favor for me and leave me a comment telling me that is what you did. If you happen to know of anyone who sells custom band merchandise, please leave me a comment to let me know.

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– The Slipknot Phenomenon & Why Custom Band Merchandise Could Be HOT!!!

Slipknot – Duality

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(Read All Slipknot Articles) – “I’m not that guy who’s going to tell you it’s harder,” he said. “Harder, to me, doesn’t mean anything. I could give a sh– about hard. Hard means nothing to the Clown. Slipknot is a phenomenon, it’s an enigma, selling loads of rap shirts and the enigma weighs on your emotions. And the emotions aren’t just heavy, they’re cerebral, they’re surreal and they’re on a whole other level. I just know that this album is different than anything we’ve done.”

I was surfing around on eBay today and notice that a signed autographed slipknot band merchandise cd currently had 6 bid and was already up to $45.00. If a signed autographed slipknot band merch cd can sell for this much and maybe higher, I can’t help but wonder how much custom band merchandise made by Slipknot would actually sell for.

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When asked to elaborate, Clown refused, saying that the music, once it’s released, would speak for itself. “Listen, we are the hardest ever,” he said. “We blow all bands away. I don’t give a f— who your band is. I’ve probably played with your band, and you don’t show me sh–. So, it’s like, is this band heavy? Oh, yeah, we’re the heaviest. We’re heavy thinkers, heavy hitters, heavy writers and heavy people, but it’s emotionally heavy. There’s a lot of emotion on this record, and we’re all on the same page with our own emotions, so you’re finally seeing the kings of all the courts bringing their kingdom’s jewels in for one gigantic war.”

But this my opinion why Slipknot band merchandise is such a hot seller & could be one of the best bands in their field and I don’t even think they know it.

But Clown did admit that the record sounds more mature than anything they’ve done previously, because, well, they’re all grown up.

“It’s a record made by a bunch of f—ing adults, and that’s why it’s different. Every record should be different,” Crahan said. “Our self-titled came out in ’98, and the second record, people were thinking maybe we’d give ’em more commerciality, and give in like everybody else does. But instead, we go completely against that, and we made the anti-sophomore record, and we get all the respect for that.

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“The third record, we start moving in directions we always wanted to. Basically, on the second record, it was like, ‘We’re the drug penetrating the vein, and we’re on our way to your brain and your heart,’ ” he continued. “The third record was, ‘Now, I’m in your brain. Check out this other sh–. No other band can handle this. No one can fathom what we do. This fourth record was done by a bunch of crazy guys in their 30s. That doesn’t mean we’re slowing down or not as intense — our brains are different, so we’re bringing different emotions, different feelings and different anxieties to the table now. This record is another diagnosis of our insanity.

“No one has done what we have done,” he added. “This is a war, man. The sh– that we do, nine guys trying to f—ing write together, and keep this insanity going? Does anybody take the time to realize that? For me, this is like going to Vietnam, serving your tour and then the government asking you to do another tour because you’re a badass. We’ve got 10 purple hearts, and we’re f—ing killers. This isn’t your rock and roll; this is our rock and roll.”

For Crahan, making the record hasn’t been a picnic. The music has taken an emotional toll on him (“This sh–‘s real, it hurts, and I’ve cut myself open and given everything to this record,” he said), but he’s cool with that — so long as Slipknot’s allegiant fans, the Maggots, aren’t disappointed with it.

“The reason the fans love us is because they sense and feel something they’ve never gotten from anybody else — it’s loyalty, it’s respect and more importantly, they’ve finally found someone who feels like they feel,” he said. “We’re not your normal band. We represent something to kids they never gotten from school, or their parents, or other bands. We supply a feeling only Slipknot can supply. We have our own culture, because, we’ve done this 10 years for you, and 12 years for ourselves.

“We have nine guys, and all nine are different,” Crahan went on. “But we’re still doing this, so I’m amazed. That’s how f—ing badass we are. Some stupid band with three members or four members wants to bellyache to me? Come on, man — this is the ‘Knot. This is nine guys, an assault on the senses, a physical war through music, and it’s going to be force-fed down your throat, and it will turn your insides out. It’s been designed to destroy you.”

But I don’t think it was designed to destroy but to enlighten others to a hidden truth that needs to be told and it’s that truth that hurts that people just don’t want to hear.

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– Slipknot Influences And Style

Slipknot – Psychosocial

(Read All Slipknot Articles) – I listened to my first Slipknot song today and I’m going get a patch and make my own Slipknot rap shirt from Planet 13. While I’m waiting for my new rap shirt to come, I could’t help but wonder what the content of the words were behind the song. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks as I figured out why this band is as popular as they are. I’ve been promoting and telling the story behind these bands for months now and being that I’ve always wanted to know the truth about subject matters and get past all of the trash, I can see now why Slipknot is so popular.

Check these words out:

Pseudo-sacred
Pyscho virgin
Go tell your classes
Go dig you grave
Then fill
Your mouth with
All the money
You will save

Oh, there are cracks
In the road we lay
From when the devil fell
The secrets have gone mad
This is nothing new
But would we kill it all
Fate was all we had
Who needs another mess
We could start over
Just look me in the eyes
And say I’m wrong
Now there’s only emptiness
But I’m missing something
I think we’re done
I’m not the only one

Sid Wilson and Shawn Crahan during a 2005 concert Slipknot is known for often chaotic and energetic live shows.

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The band’s primary influences include Black Sabbath, Slayer, Judas Priest, Korn, AC/DC, Kiss and Beastie Boys. Death metal, and black metal, have been mentioned as a key influence on the band’s musical direction alongside nu metal which the band is generally listed as. They have also stated that they are influenced by industrial bands like Head of David, Godflesh and Skinny Puppy as well as Neurosis and jungle music like Roni Size.

Slipknot has an extreme performance style provided by their large line-up featuring a typical heavily down-tuned guitar set-up (lead, rhythm, and bass guitars), two percussionists in addition to the primary drummer, and electronics (samplers and turntables). Robert Cherry of Rolling Stone compared the band’s sound to “a threshing machine devouring a military drum corps.”

Their early work hosted a large range of vocal styles, ranging from rapping to occasional singing to growled vocals. In more recent work, this vocal style remains present, but now includes more melodic singing. The lyrics generally follow a very aggressive tone and feature themes such as darkness, nihilism, anger, disaffection, love, misanthropy and psychosis. Rick Anderson of All Music Guide regards the group’s lyrics as “not generally quotable on a family website”. There has been controversy surrounding Slipknot’s lyrics, including a case in which a pair of young killers blamed the lyrics from the song “Disasterpiece” for their vicious crime and a case in 2006 in which lyrics from the song “Surfacing” were found at the site of a grave robbing. However, the band has never faced any serious allegations that their lyrics may incite violent or criminal behavior.

Follow the reaper posted this question on the Slipknot official message board that I thought was interesting:

Which slipknot song can you best relate to?

Follow the reaper can perfectly relate to “Diluted” while Plague1 can relate to Wait and Bleed

How about you … Which slipknot song can you best relate to?

I honestly couldn’t relate to any of their material, because I never took the time to listen to what they had to say. It does make for some interesting stuff to write about. At least you won’t find me falling asleep reading about that this band is all about. But then again, my life is exciting and I don’t understand why some feel they have to go to such an extreme. That would be one question I’d have for them plus a long list of others – but maybe going to the extreme is the only way most people will listen to a message that needs to be told.

When you post your comments I’d also like to know why you relate to a certain particular song.

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– What Is the Story Behind Slipknot?

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(Read All Slipknot Articles) – Slipknot’s mix of grinding, post-Korn alternative metal, Marilyn Manson-esque neo-shock rock, and rap-metal helped make them one of the most popular bands in the so-called nu-metal explosion of the late ’90s. Slipknot also outsells ICP in reference to their rap shirts, but even more helpful was their theatrical, attention-grabbing image: the band always performed in identical industrial jump suits and homemade Halloween masks, and added to its mysterious anonymity by adopting the numbers zero through eight as stage aliases. Add to that a lyrical preoccupation with darkness and nihilism, and an affectionately insulting name for their fans (“Maggots”), and Slipknot’s blueprint for nu-metal success was set.

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Aside from their real names, members of the band are also referred to by numbers 0 through 8.(#0 Sid Wilson, #1 Joey Jordison, #2 Paul Gray, #3 Chris Fehn, #4 James Root, #5 Craig Jones, #6 Shawn Crahan, #7 Mick Thomson & #8 Corey Taylor)

Slipknot is known for its strange and often frightening image; the members wear matching uniform jumpsuits all of which have the UPC barcode 742617000027 printed on them (The barcode from their first album Mate, Feed , Kill, Repeat) and each has a unique mask which they are never seen without (on any official Slipknot material) until the interviews on their latest DVD – Voliminal: Inside the Nine, and partially on the music video for the song, Before I Forget. Each member has made a distinct change to their masks after each studio album. Several members have several masks that are interchanged during any one time period, most notably Chris (#3) and Sid (#0).

Slipknot formed in late 1995 in the unlikely locale of Des Moines, IA; after some early personnel shifts, the nine-piece lineup settled around (in order from number zero to number eight): DJ Sid Wilson, drummer Joey Jordison, bassist Paul Grey, percussionist Chris Fehn, guitarist James Root, sampler/programmer Craig Jones, percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan, guitarist Mick Thompson, and lead vocalist Corey Taylor. The music scene in Des Moines wasn’t much to speak of, and the band’s big-time ambition was usually met with disbelief and ridicule, which provided the initial spark for its mostly anonymous stage visuals. On Halloween 1996, Slipknot self-released an album called Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat., which began to build a buzz around the group once it found its way to several labels. It was picked up for distribution by the Nebraska-based -ismist label, and also caught the attention of Roadrunner Records, which signed Slipknot in 1997.

Working with producer Ross Robinson, Slipknot recorded their official, self-titled debut album, which was released in 1999. They gradually built an audience through near-constant touring, working their way up to the summer Ozzfest package tour, which really expanded their audience. Their live shows were a much-discussed hit with metal fans, and the band performed with such energy that Crahan gashed his head open on his own drum kit twice that summer, requiring stitches both times. The tracks “Wait and Bleed” and “Spit It Out” got the band some airplay, but most of the buzz came from touring and word of mouth. Finally, in the spring of 2000, Slipknot was certified platinum; the first such album in Roadrunner’s history.

Slipknot created a huge fan base, and expectations for follow up album seem to be in high demand.

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– Slipknot Tells Tourmates Get Out Of Our Way Its Our Show – Controversial Band Merchandise – Are They Here To Kill You?

VH1 interview
At the end they say “You can’t fight that?”
hhhmmmmmmmmmm – I agree and here is why!
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t a big fan of Slipknot until now
but at least I won’t fall asleep writing about them.

It’s another one of those eerie pics on the Slipknot site.

(Read All Slipknot Articles) – Slipknot has posted yet another bizarre image on the front of their website.

The picture once again features one of our friends with the massive head/mask, this time wearing a black shirt and trousers and standing outside a shed and what appears to be some sort of tower.

Slipknot are yet to confirm an album title or release date for their new album but they will be hitting the UK as part of this year’s Reading and Leeds festivals from August 22nd-24th of 2008.

This is for all those saying things about the band members supporting other bands or projects and not Slipknot alone…..

Speaking about Jason Newstead’s departure from Metallica:

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What does this mean?

Control is always an issue. With the varied members of Slipknot free to explore other venues and outlets, free from repercussions, it makes a stronger group at the end of the day. No one is as much of an ass as Hetfield was at that time.

Slipknot’s Clown Tells Rockstar Tourmates ‘Get Out Of Our Way’; Plus Danzig, SikTh & More News That Rules, In Metal File’It’s our show, and we’re here to kill you,’ percussionist Shawn Crahan warns.

This summer, Des Moines, Iowa’s own Slipknot — along with Disturbed, Mastodon, DragonForce, Machine Head, the Red Chord, Suicide Silence and a handful of others — will be taking part in the inaugural run of Warped Tour mastermind Kevin Lyman’s Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival (otherwise known as the tour that effectively immobilized Sharon Osbourne‘s long-running Ozzfest). Clown’s band is also known for having the most controversial Slipknot band merchandise.

But Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan doesn’t care what you call Lyman’s latest brainchild, so long as you understand that it’s not a festival at all — it’s a Slipknot tour, plain and simple.

“It’s a bunch of bands opening for Slipknot,” Crahan told Metal File last week, during a brief break from the studio, where the band is working on its fourth, still-untitled LP, which should arrive in stores by summer’s end. “We’re headlining, as it should be. Sorry — it’s a Slipknot show, kids. We’ve been gone for two years, and you’ve all had the chance to do what you’re going to do. But now we’re back; step in line. That’s what’s up. We’re the DNA that keeps whatever cell this is moving. Period.

“With me, I’ve been out with a lot of bands, and I don’t care,” he continued. “We’re back, and it just happens to be this thing called the Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival. That’s cool. But we didn’t want them, they wanted us. Everyone wants our f—ing money and our kids. We’re playing a show, and a bunch of great bands are playing too. But we’re back, so get out of our way. Call it what you will, but we’re headlining. It’s our show, and we’re here to kill you.”

And he’s not kidding. Crahan said he’s keyed up for Slipknot’s return to the stage, following two years of hibernation, and promises that this summer, the boys will preview some of the new material they’ve been working on since early February.

“We’re going to cast some magical spells, and you’re going to get more than you can choke on,” he said. “Slipknot is a philosophy, a way of life. We’re a great band, and if you don’t know that, I don’t know what you know. We’ve been doing it longer than most bands can, and no one has done it harder than us.”

According to Crahan, Slipknot brought an abundance of songs into the studio and is nearing the completion of the effort, under the direction of producer Dave Fortman (Mudvayne, Superjoint Ritual). And while he wouldn’t go into detail about the LP (frontman Corey Taylor said in a recent interview with Billboard that the album would “rip your face off”), he scoffed at the suggestion that it’s the band’s heaviest offering to date.

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