{"id":74097,"date":"2019-03-15T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=74097"},"modified":"2019-03-15T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T05:00:10","slug":"slipknot-percussionist-suing-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=74097","title":{"rendered":"SLIPKNOT &#8211; Percussionist Suing Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slipknotlogo2015-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slipknotlogo2015-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slipknotlogo2015-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slipknotlogo2015-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slipknotlogo2015-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slipknotlogo2015-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/slipknotlogo2015-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Chris Fehn<\/strong>, percussionist of <strong>SLIPKNOT<\/strong> for more than 20 years, has allegedly filed a lawsuit against his bandmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/theblast.com\/slipknot-metal-band-chris-fehn-drummer-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Blast<\/a>, Fehn claims that he hasn&#8217;t been properly compensated for his more than 20 years in Slipknot, specifically calling out vocalist <strong>Corey Taylor<\/strong> and fellow percussionist <strong>Shawn Crahan<\/strong> for using separate companies through which to funnel money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Fehn purportedly discovered that his bandmates had set up &#8220;several other Slipknot affiliated business entities&#8221; to collect Slipknot-related revenue that he should have been entitled to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">The Blast reports that Fehn is requesting a full forensic accounting of Slipknot&#8217;s financial infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has now commented on the matter via Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">You\u2019re gonna read a lot of bullshit today. This is all I\u2019ll say. JUST YOU WAIT TIL THE TRUTH COMES OUT.<br \/>Long Live The Knot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Fehn, percussionist of SLIPKNOT for more than 20 years, has allegedly filed a lawsuit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74099,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74097\/revisions\/74099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}