“You would see them lift their masks, puke in a bucket and keep going!” Slipknot’s first manager remembers wild 90s Iowa shows

Slipknot in 2000.

Slipknot’s original manager has reflected on the gigs the nu metal wildmen played as they rose to prominence.

Talking exclusively in the new issue of Metal Hammer, Sophia John remembers an early concert from the masked nine-piece, where they played in the sweltering heat of a Des Moines summer. It got so hot, she claims, that the band threw up in buckets onstage as they were performing.