Corey Taylor has confirmed that he is working on his new Slipknot mask with Tom Savini. Savini has a history in the horror industry and has created makeup and special effects for films like “Dawn Of The Dead,” “Day Of The Dead,” “Creepshow,” “Friday The 13th,” and tons more.
Taylor told Dean Delray the following on the “Let There Be Talk” podcast, when asked who the band worked on their masks with in the past:
“We work with different people. We worked with Screaming Mad George for the longest time.”
He added the following when asked who that was:
“He’s an effects guy from Japan. He did a lot of the special effects for… The movie that comes to mind now, ‘Big Trouble in Little China.’ He did a lot of that stuff. But he’s a maniac, he’s an amazing artist. He did the masks for us, for ‘Iowa‘, ‘Volume 3‘, he did a little work with us on ‘All Hope Is Gone‘.
But then we worked with a bunch of other people. I had the privilege this time around, the new stuff that I’m working on, to work with Tom Savini. He’s the godfather to me. Got to hang out with him, got to talk with him. Met him through a friend who actually works with him. And the three of us were kind of developing this new mask together so I’m kind of fuckin’ chuffed on that.”
He also talked about the mask teaser he posted on Instagram in December:
“…It’s really bare bones right now because it has to do with what I’m gonna do underneath it as well. But it’s not there yet so I just kind of gave a little sample. And people were like, ‘What the fuck?!’ I loved it. It blew up so quick. And then it turned into like 20 fucking news stories on Loudwire and shit. And I was like ‘You people need to get out more.’ Everybody was like, ‘Is it bullets?! What is that?! I don’t know what the fuck I’m looking at!’ So I loved that shit.”
Aside from the new one, Taylor also talked a bit about his first mask:
“It was trial and error. For some of the guys, like for Clown, he had that mask since he was 12 years old. That Clown mask was a part of him. He’d had it, still fit, he used it. And when he put it on, he became that guy. The other guys in the band, it was more about, kind of finding what fits them. For me, I didn’t really know where to go at first. So Clown and his wife actually helped me find … They found an old crash-test dummy’s mask, and we flipped it inside out. At the time, I had dreads, and I was pulling the dreads out through these holes, and when I shaved my head, we took all that hair and we stuck it in the masks to kind of keep that look.”
He also talked about the evolution of his masks:
“That’s really where my … difference between all those concepts came up. Like, a lot of the guys in the band are happy with theirs, and they keep theirs. Maybe they’ll change them subtly, depending on who’s making the new ones for us. But for me, I like exploring who I am now. Nothing against the guys in the band, but for me, especially with the lyrics, I’m not the same guy I was four years ago when we did .5, and before that when I did All Hope Is Gone. That guy is constantly changing, so who is that guy in this moment? That’s kind of where I’d come from with the masks now. So I sit down with whoever’s making them and I really kind of talk the concept out.”
He also discussed the care required for the masks as well:
“…Everything is gonna start to deteriorate after a while. For us, we keep them all… First of all, we try to get as much of the moisture of it as possible, because that destroys the latex and whatnot. But we also have people who work for us, who actually take the masks at the end of the night and make sure they’re dry and they’re put away and then they’re brought out to get air into them. You know, during the tour and whatnot. But after the tour cycle, I don’t really care. I’ve got a lot of my old ones on styrofoam heads, just for displaying and shit.”
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