In news that’s bound to get a mixed reaction from Doctor Who fans across the globe, Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has just been cast as the 14th Doctor in the iconic BBC series.
Just kidding, Whovians.
But the maggot ringleader has been tapped to feature in an upcoming episode of the series.
According to The Mirror, Taylor will voice one of the Time Lord’s newest nemeses, lending his trademark growl to alien warchief, The Fisher King, who is described as “a green hulk of a creature with horns protruding from his body”.
“I push my fingers into my eyes… It’s the only thing that slowly reverses the polarity of the neutron flow.”
Taylor, who is apparently a massive Whovian himself, was contacted by the show’s production staff after they learned of his love for the series.
According to The Mirror’s source, BBC staff then gave him a VIP tour “and asked if Corey wanted to record his famous scream. He agreed instantly and was made up about it.”
The Slipknot frontman will be striking fear into the hearts of families and forty-year-old fanboys and girls in lounge rooms and parents’ basements when his Fisher King episode airs next Saturday night, October 3rd.
Gallery: Corey Taylor Ranks Slipknot’s Entire Discography
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5. All Hope Is Gone (2008) - "It just feels like a collection of songs, and not an album"
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4. Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses (2004) - "My problems with that album are my vocal performance, a lot of it. Because I was trying something different with my voice, and later I came to my senses and I was like, “Man I really don’t like what I’m doing with that,” as far as the heavy side goes. I was trying a different scream and it just didn’t work."
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3. Iowa (2001) - "We recorded a lot of the album fucked up. But there’s something about the album that’s so visceral, and so dark, just insanely dark. You listen to that album and it doesn’t sound like anything else. The production is so thick, so in your face, and the aggression is so unchecked and fucking out there. You can see where we were trying to step out of where we had come from, and where we were going... We listened to it, and I was blown away by how heavy it was. Like holy shit. And honestly, I think that album would’ve had more impact if it wasn’t for 9/11, which a lot of people forget happened a week after Iowa came out.
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2. .5: The Gray Chapter (2014) - "Even though the expectations were so high with our fans, the negative expectations were almost bigger from the people who’d been waiting for fucking years for us to fall on our face. So to come back, and not only to give them a one-two punch but also give those fuckers a kick right in the gooch, that was fucking beautiful, man. To come back out and be, ‘We’re going to be in your fucking face until the day we die, so go fuck yourselves’, that was a beautiful moment.”
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1. Slipknot (1999) - "It all started from the first album and all the crazy shit. Living off 20 bucks a week, having to hide your ramen because your asshole bandmates were trying to steal it... It was so insane, but it was so awesome because we were in it. All the talk, dreaming was over. It was time to do the work. And we did, the rest is fucking history man."
