HAMMER SMASHED FACE • COREY TAYLOR

Full Name: Corey Todd Taylor

DOB: December 8, 1973, Des Moines, Iowa.

(Current Age: 50)

Spouse: Scarlett Stone.

Appearance: 5'7, fair skin, blue eyes, short curly/slickback blonde hair, two hoop earrings on both of his ears, sharp jawline, thick neck and a dad bod.Several tattoos on his body.

Personality: Personality: often comes off as cynical (much more evident during interviews in his early career), loud, and short-tempered. But he's mostly a slightly immature dork (due to collecting action figures when he was younger) who had a rough childhood.

Issues: Mentally unstable.

Job: Lead singer of both Slipknot & Stone Sour

Likes: Chocolate (admitted being a huge chocolate junkie in his Early years of his career), His Mom, Being absolutely zooted.

Dislikes: Stupid People Being Famous, His Past Abuser (Heavily), His Father (slightly), and his mental problems

Background: Was raised by his single mother and her half-sister in Waterloo, Iowa a 'litteral hole in the ground with buildings surrounding them' And by the age of 15, he had been in at least 25 different states. And by 15 he got hooked on drugs and overdosed twice. And later in his life, he told people that he was sexually assaulted by his 16 year old friend when he was just 10 and didn't tell anyone about it until he was about 18 since his abuser threatened to 'hurt him and his mother' and then when he was with his grandmother, he tried to commit suicide by overdosing, which ended up him being taken to the hospital and recicitated by his ex-girfriends mother, he says 'it was the lowest point in his life.

Slipknot (Early Years): In Des Moines, Iowa, Joey Jordison, Shawn Crahan, and Mick Thomson approached him asking him to join Slipknot. He agreed to go to one of their practices, and ended up singing in front of them. Of Slipknot's nine members, Corey was the sixth to join the band. Performing with Slipknot, he would also come to be known as "Number Eight", since the band follows a numbering scheme for its members, ranging from 0–8. According to Shawn Crahan, Corey wanted number eight, because it symbolizes infinity.

Feeling he could expand more inside Slipknot than in Stone Sour, Taylor temporarily quit Stone Sour, even though they were recording an album with Sean McMahon.Taylor's first gig with Slipknot was on August 24, 1997, which according to band members did not go well. During his first gig, Taylor was performing with face paint instead of a mask; however, for his second show on September 12, he wore a mask that resembles his debut album mask. Taylor has recorded with Slipknot since the release of their second demo album, a self-titled demo used to promote the band to prospective labels and producers. Taylor began recording for their second studio album, Iowa, in 2001 at Sound City and Sound Image in Van Nuys, Los Angeles.

Extra Info; Body Count: 10+ (he once fucked a girl who had a clit the size of his thumb), Dick Size: 5 1⁄2 inches (respectable), and is a total freak, literally, he can Contort his face in weird ways for simply the funnies.