#0 – Sid Wilson
Position: Right Shoulder
Location: Skin Kitchen, Des Moines, IA
Meaning: “Jungle fever because I’m a junglist” (a jungle dj).
Position: Left Shoulder
Location: Skin Kitchen, Des Moines, IA
Meaning: “Jungle fever because I’m a junglist” (a jungle dj) – feuer means fire in german
Position: Wrists and Forearm
Location: Tony Kelly, Peoria Ill. Livin, La Vida Loco tour ’1999
Meaning: Flames – “Because I’m always on fire.”
Position: Knuckles
Location: Skin Kitchen, Des Moines, IA
Meaning: Must Kill – His Quote
Position: Elbow
Location: …
Meaning: …
Position: Hands
Location: …
Meaning: The “Autobots” and “Decepticons” logos from “The Transformers” TV Show/comic books. Sid is a big fan of “The Transformers”. His favorite TF character is Starscream (Decepticon). The “Autobot” logo is located on his left hand and the “Decepticon” logo is located on his right hand.
#1 – Joey Jordison
Joey does not have any tattoos.
#2 – Paul Gray
Position: Left arm
Location: Skin Kitchen, Des Moines, IA
Meaning: Tribal “S” – “It represents my band,which is everything to me.”
Position: Right forearm
Location: …
Meaning: “It looked cool, so I got it.” Picture from the cover of the Sounds Of Death magazine.
Position: Calf
Location: …
Meaning: Slipknot band logo
Position: Calf
Location: …
Meaning: Clown figure with a knife
#3 – Chris Fehn
Position: Left Calf
Location: Amsterdam
Meaning: Running bear.
Position: Calf
Location: Japan
Meaning: 4 elements : Fire, water, land and wind. “The four basic elements of the earth”
#4 – James Root
Position: Right Forearm
Location: …
Meaning: #4
Position: Left Forearm
Location: Skin Kitchen, Des Moines, IA
Meaning: ..
Position: Right Arm & Forearm
Location: …
Meaning: …
Position: Right Bicep
Location: …
Meaning: Clown
Position: Right Forearm
Location: …
Meaning: Root
#5 – 133
Position: Right Leg
Location: … (made in February ’98 by Cuddles)
Meaning: Slipknot
Position: Left Arm
Location: Done by some guy in PA, October ’99
Meaning: Tribal design. “It looked cool.”
Position: Right Shoulder
Location: Peoria, IL)
Meaning: 133 (one-thirty-three)
Position: Right Forearm
Location: …
Meaning: Cräigermeister (It’s the logo of Jägermeister, with the cross in the upside down position and the word “Cräigermeister” instead of “Jäger”…)
#6 – Clown
Position: Left Arm
Location: Skin Kitchen, Des Moines (made in ’99)
Meaning: Pinhead elephant, “Designed by my wife and myself.” “My wife is an elephant lover and I love pinhead so it is representative of the two of us.”
Position: Right Leg
Location: Paul Booth, Des Moines
Meaning: Slipknot
Position: Right Shoulder
Location: Skin Kitchen, Des Moines (’99)
Meaning: “I’ve always felt that Pinhead is one of the most evil characters created.”
Position: Left Shoulder, above Pinhead Elephant
Location: Hodikin, Tokyo, Japan (2000)
Meaning: Chantal – Shawn’s wife. “Her name (Chantal) is on my shoulder in purple cause my whole arm is an offering.”
#7 – Mick Thomson
Position: Left Shoulder
Location: Paul Booth, Des Moines
Meaning: …
Position: Left Calf
Location: …
Meaning: Slipknot
Position: Left Forearm
Location: …
Meaning: Seven (7) – his number.
Position: Right Forearm
Location: Japan
Meaning: Japanese for “hate”. “Hate – Get to know me.”
Position: Right Arm
Location: …
Meaning: …
Position: Back and Neck
Location: …
Meaning: Upside down Cross
Position: Left Calf
Location: …
Meaning: Scorpio. His zodical sign is “Scorpio”
#8 – Corey Taylor
Position: Left Bicep
Location:
Meaning: The Joker
Position: Back
Location:
Meaning: Dragon Koi
Position: Chest
Location: Paul Booth, Des Moines
Meaning: “Between Evil and Good”
Position: Chest
Location: Moscow, Russia
Meaning: “Propaganda”
Position: Neck
Location: Malibu
Meaning: 8 representing Slipknot #8 and tribal “S” symbol.
The number 8 is surrounded by “crazy eight” written is in kanji.
Position: Right Forearm
Location: Japan
Meaning: Truth
Position: Left Forearm
Location: …
Meaning: Dogma. The shape he says are where they will put the nails when he’s gone too far.
Position: Right & Left Forearm
Location: …
Meaning: Truth & Dogma.
Location: …
Meaning: He got this after his son Griffin was born and so did his wife.
Position: Left Side of neck
Location: …
Meaning: Japanese for “Death”
Position: Right Arm
Location: …
Meaning: Scarlett. Corey’s ex-wife’s name is Scarlett. This tatoo is right above the tribal “S” tattoo
Position: Right Bicep
Location: …
Meaning: Slipknot’s tribal “S” logo
Position: Left Bicep/Arm
Location: …
Meaning: …
Position: Back
Location: …
Meaning:The two-headed panther signifies the duality of man and the struggle to balance the yin and yang. The numbers 24601 are Jean Valjean’s prisoner number from the book “Les Miserables”.
Position: Right Arm
Location: …
Meaning: First of the set which he says was part of an “in joke” that if he had two chicks on his arms he’d always be in a threesome.
Position: Left Arm
Location: …
Meaning: Second of the set which he says was part of an “in joke” that if he had two chicks on his arms he’d always be in a threesome.
Position: Right & Left Arm
Location: …
Meaning: The set which he says was part of an “in joke” that if he had two chicks on his arms he’d always be in a threesome.
Position: Right Leg
Location: …
Meaning: …
Position: Back Neck
Location: …
Meaning: Infant Finite + tribal “S”
Position: Navel
Location: …
Meaning: Sanscrit that meens darkness alogn with two bullet smiley faces.
Position: Right Arm
Location: …
Meaning: …
