CASSYETTE: PRESS/DAVE LUNT. JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER: PRESS
“It was the masks and the rumours that introduced me to Slipknot. When you’re at school, those things circulate really, really quickly, and I think someone had actually said, ‘If you ever see them without their masks on, or if they catch you trying to look, they will come round your house and kill you!’ I was just like, ‘Are you kidding?! What the fuck is this?!’
“The visual aspect was most terrifying. I grew up in the south of England and Guildford was our nearest city. But you’d see so many kids walking around in Slipknot hoodies –they were absolutely unavoidable. That was how I first discovered them, through rumour and visual. It wasn’t until later on that I got more clued into the music –I was too busy being interested in kissing and learning how to kickflip!