TRAVIS SHINN
IN 2016, METAL Hammer headed to Iowa to spend some quality time with Joey Jordison for a world-exclusive cover feature. The resulting cover shoot, handled by longtime Slipknot collaborator Travis Shinn, showed Joey as we’d never seen him before -vulnerable, but defiant as he looked to the future and next chapter of his career. “Finally, I get to tell the truth,” he told Hammer scribe Dom Lawson, opening up on his health issues and exit from Slipknot for the very first time. “The thing is, you get up in the morning and you look in the mirror, and then you go off and fucking do it,” he later added. “You live your life the way you want to, and get the work done! What else can I say? It’s good to tell my story.” And few lived a story quite like Joey.