I thought it was the coolest thing ever.”īy the age of 16, Paul was living in an apartment with his friends Frank and Chris, jamming Danzig songs in the living room under the moniker Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Just seeing them up there with the red lights and smoke… it was all evil. “I saw Slayer on the Hell Awaits album and that changed my world,” he once said. Before his teenage years had even begun, his two greatest musical revelations had arrived in the form of Suicidal Tendencies’ 1983 debut and, not long after, experiencing Slayer live in the flesh. He took up an interest in music early on thanks to some guidance from his older brother William ‘Jay’ Matthews, who introduced him to bands like Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper and KISS. “I will miss him with every fibre of my heart, as will everybody at this table and everyone who knew him… he was the best of us.”īorn in Los Angeles on April 8, 1972, Paul Dedrick Gray was in many ways the beating heart of Slipknot. “The only way I can sum up Paul Gray is love,” said Corey Taylor in a tearful emergency conference held the day after his bandmate has passed.
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