Joey jordison mask evolution

All Hope Is Gone ()

The final album cycle with the original nine line-up of the band, All Hope Is Gonefeatured some of the most drastic updates to Slipknot's masks to date. While the elements of horror were still there, the masks looked sleeker, shinier and decidedly less grotesque than they had over the previous decade. 

Corey Taylor

In some ways Taylor’s scariest mask is the scariest of all in this period.

It featured no hair at all, and had an almost entirely featureless face that appeared stitched to his skull. Eerily blank.

Mick Thomson 

An angrier, more menacing update on the same theme: Thomson’s mask broadly remains as the same metallic-looking, futuristic visor throughout the band’s history.

Jim Root

Again, not much has changed: Root’s mask is still the same jester’s face as before.

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