Slipknot's Corey Taylor 'blew out' his left testicle while singing

Ouch

Slipknot and Stone Sour's Corey Taylor
Author: Scott ColothanPublished 30th May 2019
Last updated 30th May 2019

Just weeks after undergoing surgery on both knees, Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor seems to have suffered another unfortunate injury.

The masked metaller took to Twitter yesterday to tell his 579,000 followers he “blew out” his left testicle while practising vocals for Slipknot’s upcoming European tour, which kicks off at Rockfest in Hyvinkaa, Finland next week.

He wrote: “Working on my ‘87 Dokken high notes this morning. F***ed around and blew out the left testicle. Careful on re-entry, kids.”

Corey then added the hashtags ‘#kissofdeath’ and ‘#pissinblood’

When one user joked about Corey now being able to sing Slipknot’s brutal 1999 anthem ‘Surfacing’ in soprano, Corey quipped: “I can do the guitar intro falsetto.”

Another wrote: “If you pee blood WHILE screaming Dokken, I think you become the new king of metal. There would be a ceremony and everything.”

Corey responded: “They’d have to forgive me for not standing during the ceremony.”

Hopefully Corey fully recovers - and his voice goes down a few octaves - in time for Slipknot’s headline appearance at Download Festival on Saturday 15th June.

Slipknot appear on a blockbuster Download Festival line-up that boasts Tool, Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, Rob Zombie, Halestorm, Trivium, Slayer and many more. Tickets are on sale from Kerrang! Radio Tickets now.

Download Festival headliners through the years:

Iron Maiden: Download Festival 2003

If you're going to return rock and metal to its rightful home of Donington Park, then it only seems right and proper to get the UK's biggest heavy metal act to kick things off. And kick off they did!

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Slipknot’s fervently awaited sixth studio album, ‘We Are Not Your Kind’, is unleashed to the world on Friday 9th August via Roadrunner Records.

Boasting current single ‘Unsainted’, ‘We Are Not Your Kind’ features 14 all new songs. Halloween 2018 single ‘All Out Life’ does not feature and is instead a standalone release.

The track-listing is as follows:

1) Insert Coin

2) Unsainted

3) Birth Of The Cruel

4) Death Because Of Death

5) Nero Forte

6) Critical Darling

7) Liar’s Funeral

8) Red Flag

9) What’s Next

10) Spiders

11) Orphan

12) My Pain

13) Not Long For This World

14) Solway Firth