Probably the best month so far for the project. Two GAs, two more GANs, one FAC and one FLC. All albums and DVDs are now high quality albums, with the exception of All Hope Is Gone which is expected to become a GA shortly after release.
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Slipknot have began their tour throughout the United States on the Mayhem festival. However, after breaking both heels from a 12 foot on-stage jump #0 will be performing the remainder of the tour in a wheelchair. The band will be featured in next week's issue of Kerrang!. There are nine different collectable covers (one with each member of the band) for only the third time in magazine history. Their first music video of All Hope Is Gone for the song "Psychosocial" premiered last night.
We are currently discussing various alternative rock albums as possible candidates for a project-wide Featured Topic collaboration. Please join the discussion here.
"Oh, we've been called an alternative band before. But we eat meat, so I think we're disqualified: chili dogs, corn dogs, Jimmy Dean Sausage Breakfast."- Kurt Cobain
We are currently discussing various alternative rock albums as possible candidates for a project-wide Featured Topic collaboration. Please join the discussion here.
The Slipknot WikiProject Newsletter Issue V - September 22, 2008 If you would like to help out with future newsletters, please contact the Outreach Department.
"We'll never be broken,
we won't be denied,
our war is the pressure
we need to unite
'Til we die"
News and announcements
Welcome to the fifth Slipknot WikiProject Newsletter, dated Monday, September 22, 2008.
We apologize about forgetting to do a newsletter last month, but the last two months have been really good for the project. We got our first FA, another FL, a further three GAs, plus a FLC and FAC in process. All Hope Is Gone is currently the AoF with the intention of becoming a featured article, so help out were possible.
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Slipknot are currently taking a break from touring due to Joey Jordison breaking his ankle, it is rumoured that they have been shooting a music video for their next single "Dead Memories", which will feature Corey Taylor in some kind of mud pit/grave. Slipknot will return to touring in October and will be touring Asia, Europe and Australia until December, reportedly returning for an arena tour of the US next year.
"And suddenly the plane dropped to the right, then to the left, and the ground was right there. And all I could think was, Fuck, I didn’t finish "Fix You." That would have been my last thought: I didn’t get that chorus right."- Chris Martin
Help us select good versions of WP:ALM articles for inclusion on the Wikipedia 0.7 release! Find out more about Wikipedia 0.7 selection on the project talk page and add your thoughts to the discussion. If you are personally responsible for a Featured or Good Article listed here, please the select a version to include in Wikipedia 0.7 on that page if you haven't already. Page versions must be selected by October 20.
"When we were trying to sell 'This Corrosion' to Steinman, we said it was like the high point of a Borgia disco evening and he went for it. Nobody makes gloriously stupid records anymore."- Andrew Eldritch
"Anthony's a sex symbol. You see the thing is for the girls they're like 'oh Anthony he's so beautiful! And his muscles and his hair and oh golly he's so sexy!' but with me its like [with men] 'DUDE YOU'RE SO AWESOME...WOW DUDE. WOW!" - Flea
Hey there, as a member of the Slipknot Project I would just like to message you and remind you about AoF, the projects collaboration scheme. Currently the project is focused on All Hope Is Gone and we are currently going through a Feature Article candidate process in the hope of getting it classified as a Featured article. I would also like to bring to your attention that any member of the Slipknot Project can nominate an article from the projects scope to receive the projects attention, please visit the AoF talk page to nominate an article which you feel the project should focus on next. REZTERTALKø11:59, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
"I got a lot of shit for the Rolling Stone review of Reckoning because the guy really likes my guitar style and he wrote, 'on this record, Pete Buck does everything.' We'd stop for gas and it would be, 'Pete Buck does everything. Why don't you go pump the gas, Pete?'" - Peter Buck
"The other day I had these Jehovah's Witnesses come round to my house, and they tried to convince me that the Pope was the Devil's representative on Earth. So I told them that Jesus was the world's first communist. So they left. They were genuinely enraged.'" - Ian Brown
"Well, I remember hearing girls behind me in English class talking about turning 18 and being old enough to strip. It wasn't that weird at the time.'" - Brandon Flowers
Project news
John Frusciante and U2 were featured on the Main Page on May 2 and 26.
"The only confusion was, I think we all thought they were women. Kim was obviously a woman, but they all had this shaved-headed, pretty, soft look. And there were lots of lesbian bands at the time, and we always got booked with them, so we just thought the Pixies were another, like maybe they were like angry divorcees or somthing that formed a band.'" - Kristin Hersh
"We've been having lots of sex, and we're pregnant with the new baby already. It's vicious! It will have claws, like Freddy Kruger's lovechild.'" - Tom Meighan
