frontman Corey Taylor has reflected on the time he “almost killed” the band’s turntablist, Sid Wilson. The vocalist reflects on the moment in a new interview with . It took place following a Slipknot concert in London in 2001, which was filmed for the video album .
The band wore body cams to record the show, and were instructed not to go near the audience with them so they wouldn’t be stolen. After Wilson seemingly ignored this instruction and one of the cameras was indeed taken, Taylor angrily vented at his bandmate backstage. Footage of the altercation .
Looking back, Taylor says (via ), “I wanna say it was London [Dockland] Arena, but I might be wrong. And he did exactly what we told him not to do. And I was so fucking pissed.
I was also hammered, so that didn’t fucking help anything.” Taylor goes on to call the widely circulated video of the incident “taken out of context”, but continues: “[Wilson] didn’t understand why we were mad. And he comes back and he goes – I’m fucking livid; I’m just like, ‘Aaargh!’ And he goes, ‘Dude, you’ve gotta tell them to give the fucking camera back.
’ And I just whipped around on him. I was just, like, ‘Shut your fucking..
.’” The singer then expresses remorse over how he treated Wilson that night. “It was one of the most evil moments of my life, and I just didn’t give a shit.
And to this day I feel bad about it. And it’s a very real moment that’s out there for everybody to see. And taken o.