Another member of the heavy metal tribe has passed on. Slipknot bassist, Paul Gray, was found dead in an Iowa hotel room. Cause of death is unknown at this time. Gray was known as “The Pig” in Slipknot parlance, and played on every one of their studio albums. The band has yet to make an official statement. He was 38 years old.
I was a big Slipknot fan in high school, and their music has aged much better than some of their counterparts. They had downtuned guitars and a DJ just like every other band did, but they were the closest to traditional metal. Their second record, Iowa, was a key album of my sophomore year of high school. “The Heretic Song” still holds up.