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Slipknot might have achieved huge levels of success (not to mention being one of rock’s most talked-about bands for years), but they still haven’t won approval back home. Frontman Corey Taylor recently revealed folks back in Iowa have never really been proud of the heavy metal icons.
"We were judged for so f***ing long about who we were,” admitted Taylor. “I mean we came from The Fringe and what we represented was something that, to do this day, is still anathema to a lot of people in Iowa.” Taylor blames a “newfound resurgence and conservative bulls**t.”
The rocker also thinks that Des Moines’ large amount of musicians who didn’t make it plays into the resentment. “They just don't want to accept the fact that they didn't want it (success) as much as we did,” said Taylor. Take that, Iowa.