Slipknot was blamed for a murder in a school recently?

Question

just cause the kid who did it was wearing a mask like the drummers.

when will this kind of ignorant finger pointing scapegoat bull c**p end?

when will people realize that music doesn't cause people to do this kind of stuff?

and why cant they accept that there are just people out there who are just plain messed up and violent because of deep psychological problems not caused by music?

Answer 1

Their problem is they need to point their fingers at someone and they blame it on a band... Which is WRONG !!! Slipknot should not be blamed for a kid's psyco problem...

Move over, Marilyn Manson. The masked men in Slipknot are the latest heavy metal dudes being blamed for a school slaying. On Monday, a teen wielding a sword attacked four people at his high school in Krugersdorp, South Africa, killing one. According to eyewitness accounts, the suspect was wearing a mask similar to that of Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison. A community leader was quick to blame "bad Satanic music" for the incident.

Slipknot front man Corey Taylor calls bullshit. "Obviously, I'm disturbed by the fact that people were hurt and someone died," he tells Blender. "As far as my responsibility for that goes, it stops there, because I know our message is actually very positive." In the past, when Slipknot was linked to real-world violence, "I used to sweat it really hard," he adds. "But the thing I have to realize is the fact that I'm not encouraging anybody to kill anybody. I encourage our fans to express themselves, to stick together and to help each other."

"You have something like this happen, it could have been Marilyn Manson, it could have been any number of people who make art that is startling visually, on the darker side. It could've been Pat Boone, for Christ's sake. At the end of the day, there are always going to be mental disorders and people who cause violence for no other reason than the fact that they're ****** up and lost. And all we can do is try to learn from it." Said by Corey Taylor

Slipknot: Don’t blame us

SALLY EVANS and WERNER SWART Published:Aug 20, 2008

KNOT IN OUR NAME: American band Slipknot, pictured announcing the winner of ‘the most thrilling killing’, at the Fuse Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, which recognise horror movies, TV and music Picture: RENE MACURA/AP

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THE American band said to have inspired the Krugersdorp schoolboy killer has heard about what he did, but wants nothing to do with the case.

The teenager allegedly donned a home- made “death mask” resembling those of metal band Slipknot before attacking two pupils and two groundsmen with a sword at Nic Diederichs Technical High School on Monday. Jacques Pretorius, 16, died.

Many have blamed the stabbing spree on the “Satanic music” the sword-wielding youngster allegedly listened to.

Yesterday, a representative of the label representing Slipknot told The Times the band had no comment.

Declining to provide her name, the woman at Roadrunner Records said: “We’ve had no confirmation that it was, in fact, a Slipknot mask. The band is not going to respond.”

The nine band-members are known for their macabre masks, pioneering brand of metal music and highly theatrical live performances.

When asked how they had found out about the stabbing, the representative would say only that people had been phoning the label all day.

Local metal bands defended the music genre. As Internet forums from across the world buzzed over the incident, commentators said metal music had “always drawn the short end of the stick” in being linked to Satanism and teenage violence.

Hugo Louw of metal band FearStrike told The Times: “If you are down, then the music [lyrics] will work with your mind. You need to be mentally strong to listen to that kind of music.”

Louw said it was not fair to blame incidents such as the one in Krugersdorp on the music.

“It is not fair to blame it on heavy metal ... it tells fans to show people you are strong and to not be afraid.”

Another local band, The Blackened Cecropia, said: “A lot of heavy metal music is about anger, hate and death, but it isn’t Satani c or evil.”

The subject of Satanism came under the spotlight last year after a column by Deon Maas in Rapport newspaper. He said that, as far as religion went, Satanism had always been given a bad rap in the media.

“Its seductiveness, especially for teenagers, is that it naturally provides the head- to-head collision with ideas propagated by their parents,” Maas wrote.

Outrage over the column led to Maas being fired by the newspaper.

And Slipknot, too, have been in the spotlight before because of their violent lyrics.

In 2003, two California teenagers said they had killed a man after listening to the song Disasterpiece.

In 2006, lyrics from another Slipknot song were found at the site of a grave robbery in the US. In a magazine interview last year, drummer Joey Jordison said of their new album, due to be released next week: “It’s going to be heavy as f**k.”

Somewhat ironically, he then declared that “2008 is going to be all about Slipknot!”

Answer 2

What?  Why would they blame a band?  Blame the kid himself and the bullies (if there were any)  

Answer 3

until they find the real motive of why the kid did it, they will continue to blame people society has deemed as bad as the culprits.