Slipknot's Corey Taylor posts video update on his battle with Covid-19

He also praises the vaccine

Corey Taylor talks Covid battle
Published 24th Aug 2021

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor has posted a video update saying he’s “out of the woods” in his battle with Covid-19.

Last Friday (20th August), Corey told fans he was “very, very sick” after testing positive for Covid-19 and, understandably, he was no longer able to appear at the Michigan comic convention, Astronomican.

After Corey’s wife, Alicia Taylor, confirmed Corey was “doing well” on Sunday, last night (23rd August) Corey posted a video message on his social channels and said it was "the worst" he has ever been sick in his life.

"Hey everybody,” Corey said. “I just wanted to give you an update. First of all, I hope everybody's well out there. Second, I am out of the woods. I'm still positive but the fever's gone, aches are gone. I'm sweating everything out. I'm still congested. But I'm slowly but surely making my way. It shouldn't be too much longer before I test negative. So, that's great.

"I wanted to say thank you very much to everyone who sent their best wishes and to all my family and friends who reached out. You have no idea how much that means to me.”

Corey went on to praise the vaccine, saying he believes it helped him beat Covid-19.

"I also wanna say that because I was vaccinated, I truly believe that is what helped me get over the break,” Corey continued.

“I mean, this is the worst I've ever been sick in my life. Had I not been vaccinated, I shudder to think how bad it would have been. But because I had that extra little bit of protection, man, it definitely helped me get through it. So — go, go, go. If you're still on the fence (about getting the jab), I'm telling you right now it's the best thing you can do for yourself.

"Count the days down, and hopefully I will see you guys soon. All right? Take care of yourselves. Stay safe."

47-year-old Corey fell ill after completing a solo tour across the US in support of his solo album ‘CMFT.’

Slipknot's masks through the years:

Slipknot in 2000

Slipknot wearing trademark white boiler suits and their horrorshow masks in 2000

Slipknot 'Slipknot'

Slipknot on the sleeve of their fearsome, self-titled debut album in June 1999.

Slipknot's in 2000

Slipknot standing in a stairway in early 2000, obviously.

Shawn 'Clown' Crahan and Joey Jordison's mask

Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan and the late-great Joey Jordison in their fetching masks in 2000

Sid Wilson's mask

Slipknot's Sid Wilson in his gas mask in 2000

Corey Taylor's mask

Corey Taylor with his dreadlock mask in 2000 - a very different mask to his look today.

Jim Root's mask

Slipknot's Jim Root in 2000 in his Jester mask.

Craig Jones' mask

Slipknot's Craig Jones in his bizarre spiked helmet mask in 2000. This would soon evolve into a spiked gimp mask.

Mick Thomson's mask

Slipknot's formidable and towering Mick Thomson in 2000 in his horror hockey mask.

Paul Gray's mask

The late-great Paul Gray of Slipknot in his Pig Mask in 2000

Chris Fehn's mask

Slipknot's Chris Fehn in 2000. His pointy-nosed Pinocchio-esque mask has been a mainstay of his entire career with Slipknot. The mask is dubbed the Liar Mask.

Craig Jones' mask

Slipknot's Craig Jones in 2001. His part Hellraiser/part Gimp mask has also remained largely unchanged over the decades, except for the odd tweak.

Shawn 'Clown' Crahan's mask

Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in 2001. Although all of his masks have been clown related, the percussionist has tweaked his mask more than any other Slipknot member.

Slipknot

Slipknot's masks in June 2001

Joey Jordison and Corey Taylor's masks

Slipknot's Joey Jordison and Corey Taylor in 2001

Sid Wilson's mask

Slipknot's Sid Wilson in June 2001. Another variant of his gas mask.

Jim Root's mask

Slipknot's Jim Root in 2001

Shawn 'Clown' Crahan up close

A close-up of Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in December 2001

Slipknot's evolving masks

Slipknot and their masks in December 2001

Chris Fehn's mask

Slipknot's Chris Fehn in his Liar Mask in 2002

Corey Taylor's mask

Slipknot's Corey Taylor in 2002. The dreadlocks still remain.

Shawn 'Clown' Crahan's mask

Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in August 2002. This mask is more 'fairground clown' than his previous guises.

Corey Taylor's mask

Slipknot's Corey Taylor in May 2004. This delightful look is known as The Scab Mask.

Paul Gray's mask

Slipknot's Paul Gray in 2004. Not quite a pig mask but still animalistic.

Shawn 'Clown' Crahan's mask

Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in June 2004. This time he adopted a bloody bandage mask.

Slipknot's evolving masks

Slipknot in May 2005. Sid Wilson had dropped the gas mask in favour of a skull mask.

Slipknot at the Grammy Awards

Slipknot on the 2006 Grammy Awards red carpet. Sid Wilson on the far right opted for a death mask, while Shawn Crahan wore a grey mask and eye-catching pink boiler suit.

Slipknot 'All Hope Is Gone'

Slipknot return with new masks for All Hope Is Gone in 2008, including, most notably, Joey Jordison's crucified Jesus mask. Corey Taylor wore a new Blank Face Mask.

Mick Thomson and Jim Root's masks

Slipknot's Mick Thomson and Jim Root in their masks in 2008.

Joey Jordison's 'All Hope Is Gone' Jesus crown of thorns mask

The late Joey Jordison's iconic crucified Jesus mask was brought in for the 'All Hope Is Gone' era in 2008. A crown of thorns and warped stitches were added to his Kabuki mask, whilst some truly off-putting twigs or branches seemed to grow out of his fingers in place of nails. One of the most creepy Slipknot looks of all time, as demonstrated in this incredible photo of Joey on stage at Hammersmith Apollo in London.

Slipknot's evolving masks

Slipknot's Paul Gray, Corey Taylor and Jim Root at the Kerrang! Awards in 2008.

Slipknot's evolving masks

Slipknot suited and booted in December 2008 at the MTV Video Awards.

Shawn 'Clown' Crahan's mask

Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in May 2009. His long hair perfectly compliments his 'female mask'

Corey Taylor's mask

Slipknot's Corey Taylor pulling tongues in his Blank Face Mask in July 2009

Slipknot's evolving masks

Slipknot's Sid Wilson and Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in July 2011

Shawn 'Clown' Crahan's mask

Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in his Devil Clown Mask in July 2012

Mick Thomson's mask

Slipknot's Mick Thomson in August 2012

Jim Root's mask

Slipknot's Jim Root in his Jester Mask in 2013

Corey Taylor's mask

Slipknot's Corey Taylor at Download Festival 2013

Chris Fehn's mask

Slipknot's Chris Fehn in 2013 in his tradmark Liar Mask

Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan's mask

Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in January 2014

Corey Taylor's mask

Slipknot's Corey Taylor in November 2014; the same year he debuted his new Skin Face Mask.

Mick Thomson's mask

Slipknot's Mick Thomson in November 2014. Formidable as always.

Sid Wilson's mask

Slipknot's Sid Wilson in his new Steampunk Gas Mask in 2015

Alessandro Venturella's mask

Slipknot's Alessandro Venturella in 2015. The bassist joined Slipknot in 2014 and adopted his chilling burlap mask.

Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan's mask

Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in 2015. Since 2014 his guise has been various versions of his .5 Clown mask.

Corey Taylor's mask

Slipknot's Corey Taylor in 2015 in his Skin Face Mask.

Sid Wilson's mask

Slipknot's Sid Wilson in October 2015 in his slightly tweaked Steampunk Gas Mask.

Jay Weinberg's mask

Slipknot's Jay Weinberg in 2016. The drummer joined Slipknot two hours earlier and adopted an almost tribal burlap mask.

Corey Taylor's mask

Slipknot's Corey Taylor in 2016 in his slightly tweaked Skin Face Mask.

Chris Fehn's mask

Slipknot's Chris Fehn in July 2016. Fehn's Liar Mask is complimented by his long flowing locks.

Jay Weinberg's mask

Slipknot's Jay Weinberg flicking the V's in 2016

Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan's mask

Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in 2016

Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan's mask

Another mask worn by Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in 2016

Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan's mask

Yet another mask adorned by Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan in 2016

Slipknot's new masks for 2019

Slipknot unveiled their fearsome new masks for new album 'We Are Not Your Kind' on 16th May 2019.

Slipknot's 'Tortilla Man'

Slipknot's mystery new percussionist, strongly rumoured to be Michael Pfaff from Clown's side-project Dirty Little Rabbits, was dubbed Tortilla Man by maggots in 2019 because, you guessed it, his mask looks like a tortilla.

Corey Taylor's 2021 mask

Corey Taylor unveiled his nightmarish new mask at Rocklahoma Festival in September 2021 - the band's first concert in almost 19 months.

Jay Weinberg's 2021 mask

Jay Weinberg unveiled his fearsome new mask to maggots around the world at Knotfest Los Angeles in November 2021.

Sid Wilson's 2022 mask

Sid Wilson unveiled this freaky new look in the video for 'The Dying Song (Time To Sing)' in July 2022.

Clown's 2022 mask

Reflecting his love for disco music, Slipknot percussionist M. Shawn 'Clown' Crahan debuted this mirrorball mask in the video for 'The Dying Song (Time To Sing)'.

Tortilla Man's 2022 mask

Slipknot's newest band member went from Tortilla Man to Squashed Tortilla Man in July 2022.

Jay Weinberg's 2023 mask

In April 2023, Jay Weinberg revealed a striking new mask to coincide with the band's performance at Knotfest Japan. He wrote on Instagram: "It's an honour to collaborate with Japanese painter Solid Blackline for my mask this weekend, specially designed for Knotfest Japan. The organic, flowing shapes of his high-contrast designs evoke feelings of mysticism and beauty, balanced within the duality of chaos and order one feels as a visitor in this wondrous country."

Corey Taylor’s 2023 mask

In May 2023, Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor unveiled a slight tweak to his 'The End, So Far'-era mask. It features a crudely sawn-off cranium to expose Corey's luscious locks.

Slipknot masks Grammys 2024

Michael Pfaff, Alessandro Venturella, Michael Shawn Crahan and Sid Wilson debuted a fresh set of eery masks at the Grammy Award ceremony 2024.

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