Slipknot’s Eloy Casagrande explains new mask is tribute to Joey Jordison and Brazilian culture

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Slipknot‘s Eloy Casagrande has revealed that his mask is a tribute to the culture of his home country Brazil, as well as to the late Joey Jordison.Casagrande plays in an all-white mask – similar to Jordison’s classic mask – which has a bullet wound in the forehead.“The mask was something I did with Clown,” he said on the Modern Drummer podcast. “The first thing he asked me at the beginning is like, ‘Can we have a white mask for you?’ The first thing to bring back Joey’s memory.

Respect his legacy. And I made the suggestion to have, like, these black lines to remember the Brazilian indigenous people.“You know, so it brings with me the Brazilian people, the Brazilian culture.

But my expression, my face expression, this was designed by Clown. He was watching me playing without the mask and he said, like, ‘That’s the way you look when you’re playing Slipknot music.

So we’re going to put that in your mask.'”He later told the story of what inspired the bullet hole. “I came with the idea of the bullet hole.