It’s the year 2000 and Corey Taylor is on the weirdest phone call of his life. Although Slipknot are still riding the high of releasing their critically acclaimed debut album, the frontman is in his then-manager’s living room, giving testimony to a judge on the other end of the line. It’s an uncomfortable necessity he has to endure if his band want to retain the rights to one of their own songs.
“[The judge] is like, ‘Now, now, Mr Taylor – am I to understand that you’ve stolen a song from a group of people?’,” The Nine’s singer reflected years later at a Q&A show. “He’s a judge! What the fuck do I say?! I’m 26, I don’t know shit at this point about the legal system!”
