Agreed. I’d love to see them continue on, but wouldn’t blame them one bit if they called it quits.

which one of them was he? i guess the dude who didn’t speak, and not Mick or Jim whom i’ve seen unmasked.

You shouldn’t be. It was appropriate, given the solemnity of the occasion.

I think it’s a shame his friends and family will have the memory of the huge smile that reflected his reportedly unfailingly affable nature, while the public will only remember the “pig” mask. For all I know, that’s the way Paul would have wanted it. They weren’t obligated to do f*ck all, but his bandmates eulogized him publicly as they saw fit. That should be enough for all of us.

i felt like she was in shock. its a day after her husband died, shes probably still processing.

Shock and new reports said it was probably an overdose too.

I kinda get the feeling she seems “faky-sad” aswell. But i’m probably just being judgmental. Maybe she’s in shock or just doesn’t feel comfortable being so emotional in front of a bunch of people. Who knows

for sure man, same boat.

There will be a lot of speculation leading up to the band’s final decision in continuing or not. As others have mentioned here, the band’s attitude has always been “it’s all of us or none of us”; however, I’m not sure that statement necessarily involved the thought of one of them dying so prematurely.

Between Joey doing Murderdolls again and Corey/Jim doing Stone Sour for the next year/year and a half, it wasn’t as if Slipknot had new music coming out anytime soon regardless. Bands do go on, however. The most recent example which can be likened to the Slipknot situation is The Deftones; by all accounts, Chi hasn’t made nearly any progress since his accident and, sad as it is to say, he probably won’t be playing music ever again even if he does end up surviving the whole ordeal (of course I’m wishing my best for him to fully recover). The band could have folded right then and there, but rather they shelved “Eros” and subsequently released one of the best albums of their career, becoming reinvigorated and renewed by the whole experience and in turn uniting as a band with a mission.

I am a longtime fan of Slipknot; I managed to get my hands on their original demo tape (the one with “Surfacing” and “Spit It Out”, not the older ones with the previous – i.e. non-Corey lineup) at a show in 1998. Upon hearing it, I immediately fell in love, I remember thinking, “This is the heaviest band I’ve ever heard, it’s everything I’ve ever looked for in a metal band!” My best friend, who was/continues to be a major computer nerd, was into the whole IRC “scene” way before most people had ever heard of it and he got ahold of the self-titled record about a month or two before it dropped in stores. We listened to it non-stop on repeat for months.

Then, the trend continued on Iowa and, even though a lot of original fans were turned off by it, I think Vol. 3 is an amazing album as well. Unfortunately, AHIG is the first record where I actively dislike a few tracks while several others are simply ‘meh’. I think Slipknot has a chance, if they so choose, to use Paul’s death as a catalyst to put out the best album of their career and THEN call it quits. My assumption was that they had one more album in them and then they’d each move onto other stuff for good. I sincerely hope they write one more in Paul’s memory, then step down admirably.