New slipknot's cymbal signature...the black alpha...serious sh*t!!!

This is joey's drum setting...perfectly set up...

In tomorrow's Kerrang! magazine Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison speaks frankly about his long running, and very private, battle with drug addiction for the first time.

"I realised I had a problem with narcotics when I realised that I wasn't just hurting myself, I was hurting the people around me," Jordison told Kerrang! "I had a real moment of clarity last year. My girlfriend at the time, a girl who I thought I was gonna be with forever, cheated on me and I went on a three week coke binge. I actually wrote some of the riffs for the new album [All Hope Is Gone] around that time, which is the only good thing to come out of it. But I just wasn't having fun anymore and my family knew it.

"My sister, Annie, kept trying to call me but I didn't want to speak to anyone. The phone was off the hook," he continues. "I didn't answer my door, the lights were off, and I was just fucking ragingly pissed off all the time. So she sent me a picture of my nephew. He was trying to play drums and he was wearing one of my old masks. And so I called her and she put him on the phone and he said 'I love you uncle Joey', and I was like 'Fuck it, I'm done. This is fucking stupid.' I realised I was basically fucking dying. It took that to make me realise what was really important in my life and that I'd done a lot of mean things to people."

Jordison also told K! that he's already bought his own grave.

"It's over down on Second Avenue [in Slipknot's home town of Des Moines, Iowa]," he says. "That's what being in Slipknot does to you."

Full name: Nathan Jonas Jordison
Date of Birth: 26th April, 1975, Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa
Plays: Drums (and Guitar!)
Height: 5"5
Status: Single
Wears: His mask is a white japanese expressionless kabuki mask, now painted with black scars and fake Blood. He has long black hair with vivid red-steaks.

He's the most talkative member of the group
He is also the creator of the tribal S symbol for the band.
Joey is Known for being one of the fastest drummers in metal history.
He was one of the original members of Slipknot, and drummed for MFKR
Rip's off the arms and legs of his suit, because its easier to drum.
He's talkitive, diminutive, and just really down to earth.
He writes a lot of their songs, including Scissors.
He mixed the self titled album.
He created the term "Maggot" for a slipknot fan...
Doesn't do drugs
First Record Ever Bought: 'Kiss Alive'
Musical Heroes: Fantomas, KISS, Slayer, Venom, Mercyful fate, Misfits, Mike Patton,Melvins.
The First concert he ever saw was Kiss on the "Asylum" tour
BAND WOULD MOST LIKE TO TOUR WITH: the Melvins.
Is a big fan of Fleetwood Mac...actually he listens to Fleetwood Mac every night before going to sleep
Joey's first job was as sales associate at a retail record store in West Des Moines.
Before Slipknot, Joey played in a band called Modifidious with Craig.
When asked to describe himself in three words, he replied: "Introvert, quiet and attentive", yet others say he is quite talkitive...
In his opinion, Black Sabbath was the most heavy metal band ever.
Hobbies: "It is pretty much covered by music 24/7. Aside from that, maybe video games, sleeping and sex"
Bands played/plays in: "Anal Blast","Modifidious", "The Rejects"

Joey worked at a record store called "Music Land" and a gas station called "Sinclair's" he worked at the garage 4 nights a week for 10 hours after being tempted by a friend to get a job there. Joey likes to wear a black hood that says on it "Little People Kill People". The Tribal "S" that is now the slipknot logo, was originally drawn by Joey, Joey also drew the main Slipknot logo, and the big "K" and "T" may come from the fact that at that time he was a HUGE KoRn fan.

Joey Jordison during jam session with roadrunner

Jordison was born at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa on April 26, 1975. He grew up in a rural area outside of Waukee. He embraced music at an early age, attributing it to the influence of his parents, "they always sat me down in front of the radio, rather than the TV." He started his first band while in elementary school. He played guitar until receiving his first drum kit as a gift from his parents at age eight. At a young age, Jordison's parents divorced, he and his two younger sisters stayed with their mother. His mother remarried and set up a funeral parlor, where Jordison would occasionally help. Jordison has stated he felt a sudden responsibility to be the man of the house, and this responsibility turned him into a more mature person at a young age.
Jordison did not enjoy his time at school, admitting, "I was really introverted and didn't have many friends. His grades suffered due to his focus on music. Despite being involved in multiple projects, he did not have his first serious band until he was 15; he formed Modifidious, in which he played drums, he later described them as "total speed-metal thrash". The band helped Jordison break new ground, playing for live crowds in support of local bands including Atomic Opera who featured Jim Root and Heads On The Wall, which featured Shawn Crahan. After a multitude of line-up changes, including the presence of Craig Jones and Josh Brainard — who would later appear in Slipknot — the band released two demos: Visceral and Mud Fuchia in 1993.
After leaving school he was hired by a local music store called Musicland. However, in March 1994, after a recommendation from a friend, he got a job at a Sinclair garage in Urbandale working the night shift. Jordison preferred the night shift, because it left his weekends free and he could hang out with his friends and listen to music while working. In early 1995, Modifidious disbanded due to a lack of interest, owed to the shift in interest from thrash metal to death metal in America. Following this Jordison joined a local band called The Rejects as a guitarist, with whom he only played a couple of shows. Jordison was also involved in a band called Anal Blast with Paul Gray; however, this was formed partly as a joke. Gray also attempted to recruit him for another band, Body Pit, but he declined the invitation to remain in The Rejects.