Sid Wilson vs. Slipknot | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: This band has been around a long time. Slipknot now they're not going anywhere, but this there seems to be a lot of dispute about what's going on here.

0:08 Speaker 2: Uh.

0:09 Speaker 1: If you haven't seen this a slipknot. This is from Billboard dot Com. Slipknot cuts ties with Sid Wilson after nearly thirty years. Wilson joined the band in nineteen ninety eight, just before the des Moines, Iowa founded group's mainstream breakthrough, Slipknot. I saw Slipknot once, only once. I was never a big fan, you know, I like them okay, But I saw them at oz Fest, which would have been U two thousand. When did I see them two thousand and one, two thousand and two? It was one of the I think they've played oz I think they played oz Fest more than once.

0:45 Speaker 1: But you know in Mansfield that at that time it was it must have still been. Was it still great Woods at that time?

0:51 Speaker 2: I'm not sure. Anyway, I saw Slipnot once.

0:55 Speaker 1: It was okay Again, I was never really a big Slipknot fan, you know, I like them, but.

1:00 Speaker 2: Not not something I'd go out of my way for.

1:04 Speaker 1: But apparently so Sid Wilson has been in the band for thirty years and he's done. He's a keyboardist and DJ. It says here again. This is from Billboard dot Com. The news came in a since deleted Instagram and website post from the Grammy winning heavy metal band on Friday, August fourteen, after weeks of speculation about Wilson's status.

1:27 Speaker 2: In the group.

1:28 Speaker 1: The statement remains posted on the Instagram account for not Fest, the music festival created in twenty twelve by Slipknot. So the statement reads quote effective immediately, Slipknot will no longer be associated with Sid Wilson. We wish him the best in his future endeavors. Now, by the way, future endeavors. Any wrestling fans listening to the show might chuckle at that phrase, because whenever WWE, whenever they release somebody from their contract, the statement that they put out always says we wish them the best in their future endeavors.

2:05 Speaker 1: So it's kind of becoming. It's even sometimes used as a verb. Now, you know, you might hear, you know, a wrestler say I hope I don't get future endeavored. But anyway, so it says here the not Fast Instagram caption ads quote Slipknot have parted ways with Sid Wilson. The announcement could briefly be found on the band's website.

2:24 Speaker 2: Unquote.

2:25 Speaker 1: The caption said that that's weird um. Billboard has reached out to a rep for Slipnot for further details. Wilson joined Slipknot in nineteen ninety eight, having been recruited by the Des Moines, Iowa founded heavy metal band as its ninth member for his impressive djaying skills. He joined just before the group's mainstream breakthrough when they signed to Roadrunner Records and release their nineteen ninety nine self titled debut album. The project was the band's first on an All Genre Billboard two hundred Albums chart, peaking at number fifty one in May of two thousand.

3:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, Slipknot was absolutely massive for a while, where they've since landed six top tens and three number ones two thousand and eight's All Hope Is Gone, twenty fourteen's point five, The Gray Chapter point five or Negative five in twenty nineteen's We Are Not Your Kind. In two thousand and six, the band took home their lone Grammy Best Metal Performance for the song before I Forget among eleven career nominations. Last month, TMZ reported that Wilson, known for wearing a gas mask like face covering amid the famously masked band, was notified July thirty one that.

3:44 Speaker 2: He'd been let go from the group.

3:46 Speaker 1: With no official word from the band on Wilson himself. Comments from Slipknot guitarist Jim Root on Instagram planted seeds of doubt around the report. Quote don't believe everything you read, wrote in a sense expired in Instagram story post quote stop think, take a breath, sit with it for a while, maybe just maybe even wait until there's more information.

4:09 Speaker 2: Unquote.

4:11 Speaker 1: Friday's posted and deleted statement exactly two weeks later is the first word from Slipknot on the status of Wilson, who also reportedly broke off his engagement to Kelly Osbourne in March. Slipknot's most recent album was twenty twenty two's The End So Far, which debuted and peaked at number two on the Billboard two hundred. This is not without some controversy. Again, there are some competing narratives and stories and speculation about why Sid Wilson is out and I'm just gonna see if I can find something really quick here that we can look at, because all the gossip and everything is is interesting.

4:56 Speaker 1: Okay, this is so. Sid Wilson was removed from Slipknot because the group reportedly grew tired of his behavior and how he mistradd his bandmates. And this is not anything new by the way he was supposedly or always rumors it. He has a bit of a handful to deal with the real reason and timeline behavior issues. Sources close to the band stated that his firing was a long time coming after years of tension regarding his attitude and treatment of other members. TMZ first reported his removal on July thirty one.

5:30 Speaker 1: The band briefly posted, then deleted the official confirmation. Okay, we know about that part. The band planned to announce the departure on their own terms, but early leaks cost frustration and chaos behind the scenes. Around the same time period, his engagement to Kelly Osbourne ended and she posted the public statements urging him to take personal responsibility. Uh oh, so, not sure exactly what happened there, but Sid Wilson out of Slipknot, and I'm sure Eventually we'll get the story.