Slipknot Net Worth
An American heavy metal band Slipknot was founded in Des Moines, Iowa, in September 1995. The founding members were percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray. As of 2016, the Slipknot band has a joint net worth of approximately 50 million dollars. Let’s take a close look on how they amassed such a fortune.
Present members of Slipknot are Corey Taylor, Mick Thomson, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Sid Wilson, Shawn Crahan, Chris Fehn, Alessandro Venturella, and Jay Weinberg. They presented many concert tours in past years, three of them in 2015. You could look forward to one, European Tour, in the 2016.
They have five studio albums – Slipknot, Iowa, Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), All Hope Is Gone, and .5: The Gray Chapter. Slipknot has won many awards, such as Fuse Award for Dead Memories, Grammy Award for Before I Forget, several Kerrang! Awards and Metal Hammer Golden God Awards, etc. They also published one live album and four DVDs.
The band tried to lawsuit against Burger King in 2005 but after negotiations, Burger King’s advertising campaign and Slipknot’s lawsuit were withdrawn. Their music and image have been the subject full of controversies. The lyrical content of some Slipknot’s songs has been linked to a few violent and criminal incidents, even two juvenile killers blamed the lyrics of song Disasterpiece for their crime in 2003. Despite the controversy, the band has earned pretty great net worth.
