Heavy metal staples Slipknot are arguably the biggest band to ever come from Iowa. Given their longterm success, you would think the state would be proud of the band, but frontman Corey Taylor told the “Zach Sang Show” that’s not the case. 

“We were judged for so f*cking long about who we were,” Taylor said. “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.”

“There are a lot of people in Iowa that are very ashamed of the fact that Slipknot comes from there and it’s because of this newfound resurgence of conservative bullsh*t. As much as Iowa, when I was there, was a purple state, it’s very red now. There’s a lot of people who I know who are not happy about it.”

Taylor went into further detail about the band’s hometown of Des Moines. Needless to say, he’s not too high on a lot of his neighbors. 

“There’s a lot of f*cking d*cks who still live in Des Moines, Iowa that are so mad. I’ve known for 30 years. I run into and they side-eye me hard.”

“There’s so many bitter p*icks in that g*ddamn town and and they’re just hanging on… like they just don’t want to accept the fact that they didn’t want success as much as we did. And I’m not going to sit here and say that they didn’t deserve it, because there were a lot of great bands in this scene that we came out of. But for whatever reason, they didn’t push hard enough. Even when we did make it and we tried to shine that spotlight on the Des Moines scene, because it was almost in a weird way like a pseudo Seattle moment.”

“There was a lot of people trolling through Des Moines trying to find the next Slipknot. Everybody who we tried to help blew it. They just didn’t f*cking want it as much as we did. I mean, we would have lived and died for this sh*t and these guys just thought it was a crumb.”