drummer Eloy Casagrande has explained the meanings behind the design of his mask. Talking to the podcast, the 33-year-old, who joined the nine-piece last spring, says that he designed his mask with founding percussionist Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan. The colour and linework jointly references Casagrande’s Brazilian heritage and Slipknot’s original drummer , who was dismissed from the band in 2013 and died of undisclosed causes in 2021, age 46.
“The first thing [Clown] asked me at the beginning is like, ‘Can we have a white mask for you?’” says Casagrande (via ). “The first thing to bring back Joey’s memory. Respect his legacy.
“And I made the suggestion to have, like, these black lines to remember the Brazilian indigenous people. You know, so it brings with me the Brazilian people, the Brazilian culture. But my expression, my face expression, this was designed by Clown.
He was watching me playing without the mask and he said, like, ‘That’s the way you look when you’re playing Slipknot music. So we’re going to put that in your mask.’” Casagrande goes on to explain arguably his mask’s most notable feature: that black bullet hole in the centre of his forehead.
He reveals that it harks back to when he was mugged on the streets of his hometown São Paulo “two years ago”. “I came with the idea of the bullet hole,” he explains. “Two years ago, I was robbed in São Paulo.
I was walking in my neighbourhood, it was 9am, I was going to the gym, an.
