Purity: The Slipknot Crime Mystery - Tales From the Internet

After the release of Slipknot's self titled album, it was replaced with a new version that removed two of its tracks: Purity and Frail Limbs Nursery. This was due to an issue with a crime website. Here is a look at what happened.

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[DarthCorreia]

Hey! At 2:23, I drew that! My drawings are a little better now, haha! Fun fact: In 2000-2001, Roadrunner UK asked me to draw a few Slipknot drawings for digital wallpaper on their site. I drew that piece and a couple others in exchange for a box of CD's and maybe $50. It was my first "paying gig" and I felt like I was on top of the world. Great video!

[joshdoek]

We need a Hanna-Barbera Style cartoon, where Slipknot travels the world solving mysteries.

[Master_Exploder]

It's about a girl. In a box. We don't feed her. And she's not particularly happy about that. - Corey Taylor 2001

[daoyang]

People taking these lyrics serously, makes me scared to think of what would have happened if Infant Annihilator came out during that era.

[WackenPudding]

When I was about 14 years old, I had this "online boyfriend"... The thing that got stuck in my mind was, when he told me, that our "relationship' reminded him of the song purity. Glad that my mom never let me meet him 😂

[oscarforgothislastname]

That drawing of Slipknot crucifying Fred Durst was the cover of my binder in middle school. Teachers were not too fond of it and kept confiscating it. But i had lots of copies and each day I'd come back with a new one and eventually they gave up.

[dontgiveafuckist]

Corey: This song is about a girl in a box
Random Fan: YYEEAAAHHH!

[sinbysin]

I'm so glad that it turned out to be fake. That was a really upsetting story.

[michelangelo]

the name “Frail Limb Nursery” sounds so metal

[ianetheridge]

You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes. That homeless dude was into something for sure.

[AsAboveISoBelow]

I actually 'found' Slipknot at a rough time in my life, and I realized that the anger in the music is really cathartic, and it helped me through it, being able to empty out that anger in me without doing it in a way that would be destructive.

[SallyStangler]

"Putting the young bands future in jeopardy"

*me in my slipknot sweater* oh my, I wonder what happened with them

[TacticalPlaytime]

I met Corey about 10 years ago randomly in NYC and I gotta tell you, he's gotta be one of the sweetest, kindest, most genuine guys I've ever met, famous or otherwise. The dude is an absolute friggin sweetheart and he's funny as hell.

[Lghtweaver]

Oh. My. God. I never knew the Purity story was fake. I'm not a Slipknot fan, but someone told me the story behind the song once in high school and it terrified the shit out of me. Finding out it's fake is such a weight of my mind. That has haunted me for years!

[cymeyers]

"capable of seeing california even without Marlon Brando's eyes" is the funniest thing I've seen all year

[hacksbeenjamin]

Purity Knight sounds like the single most fake name Ive ever heard.

[jacobtucker]

As soon as Whang said the detectives put all the evidence on the website I knew he was going to be telling us it was all just an ARG.

[Evan-cwvi]

I’ve heard this story a lot being a slipknot fan and it’s cool to see someone cover it. I remember wondering what purity was about on my first listen and thinking it was super disturbing when I looked into the lyrics.

[kancer]

I still have my Ozzfest 99 ticket stub. In 98, a dude at a record store gave me a 2 song sampler cassette with Surfacing and Spit it Out. Must have played it at least 1000 times that year.

[sydneykloba]

I got so invested in the ‘crime’ that when people started talking about copyright I felt my hope in humanity start to dissolve lol never appreciated a twist more. You had me in the first half there