SLIPKNOT's CLOWN Working On 'Maggot Bible'

September 20, 2011

According to DesMoinesRegister.com, SLIPKNOT percussionist M. Shawn Crahan has announced plans to create a "Maggot Bible", a crowdsourced book made up of 1,000 works of art submitted by the band's fans, affectionately called "maggots."

"Okay, I am going to do the very best I can to describe this crazy dream I had about a book called the Maggot Bible," he writes in a two-page introduction on the MaggotBible.com web site, displayed to look like an open holy book.

"We all have to feed off what the world puts us through, in order to grow and experience life's greater opportunities.

"My connection with you on the Internet or in person has always been surrounded by these ideas of art and how art can help ease the pain of life."

"When you feel a certain way and you think you're alone, you can open this book up and read stories, poems and glare at photos or other mediums of creation to help you breathe and realize you are not alone."

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