NewsMay 24, 2010 11:54 PM ET18,529 views

Slipknot bassist found dead

Slipknot bass player Paul Gray was found dead earlier today in an Iowa hotel room. Authorities report that an employee at the Town Plaza Hotel in Urbandale discovered Gray's body at around 10:50am. Foul play is not suspected at this time, though additional information has yet to be revealed. Gray was 38 years-old.

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rocknroll_goonsquad 5/24/2010 8:57:20 PM

rip.

composed 5/24/2010 8:57:36 PM

First. RIP. Don't bother hating.

BNCasey3 5/24/2010 8:59:39 PM

big bummer

Har_Har 5/24/2010 9:00:52 PM

looks like he will be feeling the pulse of the maggots soon

Asshole_Casserole 5/24/2010 9:01:19 PM

if anyone posts the word "gay" or anything involving hate in this thread, you are a homosexual and your address via IP will be sent to me and I will fly to your house to punch you in the mouth for being such an easy gaywad.

destroyerofpoon 5/24/2010 9:01:20 PM

DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT BEING (SIC)

Asshole_Casserole 5/24/2010 9:03:38 PM

oh yeah, any sarcastic replies will be considered admittance to liking penis in your mouth and rear.

Chi_Stake 5/24/2010 9:07:27 PM

don't like slipknot much but this sucks anyway

emoxfag 5/24/2010 9:07:31 PM

holy shit. i just sent this to the webby. funny how many butthurt losers are upset about a 40 yeah old man in a mask playing numetal ODing. well i'll be the first. good. fcking gay.

stevebazzano777 5/24/2010 9:09:45 PM

first, the rev, then peter steele, then dio, now paul gray, who's next ? r.i.p. all of them

Asshole_Casserole 5/24/2010 9:10:46 PM

EMO gay IS GOING TO GET PUNCHED IN HIS FACE.

destroyerofpoon 5/24/2010 9:17:31 PM

Clearin the stone of leaves bro

puremalice 5/24/2010 9:17:50 PM

fck wishing this guy would R.I.P. He did this to himself with his selfish choices. Now his kid will never know it's father. He's no fcking hero.

fuckyourband 5/24/2010 9:20:36 PM

waiting on the care train.....seems to be running late

julio_isnt_really_stoked 5/24/2010 9:23:23 PM

lambgoat late on news :o. but honestly even if he did do this to himself to what seems to be an obvious overdose, it is a sad loss

TheAwfulDin 5/24/2010 9:25:42 PM

R.I.P. This sucks. I remember meeting him when I was 13, at that time, I thought he was the greatest. Loved the song "Do Nothing (bitchslap)" good shit. I guess this marks the end of the band as well?

i_am_fuck 5/24/2010 9:37:46 PM

He got (bitchslap)ped by God and now his body can do nothing.

skum 5/24/2010 9:43:24 PM

do you guys seriously look up to him? you guys respect nu metal? seriously? what are you guys 15? ODed.. good riddance

kniferevenge 5/24/2010 9:46:10 PM

I find it funny that all the people hating are really old and think their cool cuz they listen to real hxc music.

RobFusco 5/24/2010 9:46:20 PM

No more boom-boom for this baby-san.

nahbrahdood 5/24/2010 9:50:01 PM

puremalice 5/24/2010 9:17:50 PM fck wishing this guy would R.I.P. He did this to himself with his selfish choices. Now his kid will never know it's father. He's no fcking hero. --A fckING MEN!!

nahbrahdood 5/24/2010 9:52:11 PM

PS - I fcking hate how as soon as Bury Your Dead came out with that 1st nu-metal CD, it became not only alright but considered kind of cool for "hardcore kids" to like this kind of shit. fck all nu metal. All of it.

John_McClane 5/24/2010 9:54:48 PM

i dont see how you guys can feel sorry for a junkie dying he got what he deserved in my opinion

notorious_dob 5/24/2010 9:57:29 PM

if they had never taken their masks off, they could've just done a quiet replacement and skipped all this negative press

xnogodknowpeacex 5/24/2010 9:57:36 PM

gay, im glad hes dead

obscenities 5/24/2010 10:05:30 PM

next on the list: the drummer from some metalcore band that no one cared about until he died. (in all seriousness though, RIP)

shaunster 5/24/2010 10:09:27 PM

how the fck you gays know he ODed ? ya don't know shit ! when they first came out most of you guys were sucking their c-cks hard...

death_threat 5/24/2010 10:11:15 PM

fck this guy and fck Slipknot.Icp fans will no doubt mourn.This band is a nu-metal band,why the fck is it on lambgoat?

Quake 5/24/2010 10:15:05 PM

Everyone loved Slipknot at one time or another... this is actually very sad.. :(

fuck_imdave 5/24/2010 10:17:26 PM

This just in... Paul Gray tries to see california with Marlon Brandos eyes.

deadwithfear 5/24/2010 10:17:54 PM

Har_Har 5/24/2010 9:00:52 PM looks like he will be feeling the pulse of the maggots soon lololol

fuck_imdave 5/24/2010 10:18:47 PM

*without god damn it

fukuimdrunk 5/24/2010 10:20:08 PM

rip clown you crazy bastard.

xthexoncomingxstormx 5/24/2010 10:21:44 PM

i wonder if corey taylor will kneel down and clear his stone of leaves?

kenny 5/24/2010 10:30:52 PM

people = shit

hank_hill 5/24/2010 10:35:56 PM

i bet they'll bury him in that stupid mask lol, what a gay. lots of hot topic metal gays will need to listen to miracles on repeat to cope...

Stay_At_Home_Dad 5/24/2010 10:47:01 PM

This guy was in a band or something?

djunior 5/24/2010 10:48:13 PM

no care whatsoever, everyone dies

YouGotScanned 5/24/2010 10:57:24 PM

I don't understand where the majority of Lambgoaters come from... what kind of environments were they raised in? What kind of tragedy occured in the past that made them such horrid human beings?

YouGotScanned 5/24/2010 10:57:32 PM

Slipknot's first record is better than 90% of any kind of hardcore or metal that ever existed. When anyone dies, it's a tragedy. fck ALL OF YOU

Stay_At_Home_Dad 5/24/2010 11:03:15 PM

What band was he in?

streetsofrage86 5/24/2010 11:03:32 PM

praise the lord! one less maggot

analblowjobs 5/24/2010 11:05:18 PM

Bummer. RIP #2

siqbrah 5/24/2010 11:06:34 PM

drug user dies of overdose, leaves child fatherless. during his life, he enjoyed putting on costumes with other men and dancing on stage for 15 year old girls and boys without balls. no care ever.

xburnfacex 5/24/2010 11:17:09 PM

Sucks but yeah...def. did it to himself. Can't really feel sorry for someone who knows their life is going down the shitter but refused to stop. Especially for their own fcking son.

GeorgeSavini 5/24/2010 11:18:50 PM

You gays kill me. 10 years ago most of you were jamming Korn, rocking JNCOs and checking the prp religiously.

wasted_life 5/24/2010 11:21:32 PM

RobFusco 5/24/2010 9:46:20 PM No more boom-boom for this baby-san. / / / HOLY fckING LOL

xthexoncomingxstormx 5/24/2010 11:21:47 PM

*checks theprp, finds out slipknot bassist is dead*

VagueIllusions 5/24/2010 11:22:31 PM

Eh, hate Slipknot, but this actually sucks.

soruined 5/24/2010 11:23:29 PM

that sucks. disaffected kids with no identity will have no one to bang their heads to anymore.

rickitycrickit 5/24/2010 11:23:35 PM

all you gays at the top come in here and talk shit any other day somebody dies but now we have to bite our tongues cause hes from fcking slipknot? ... unbelievable. you guys are retarded. you fcking do heroin you fcking die. thats how it works.

bringer_des_blutes 5/24/2010 11:29:00 PM

Yea this is pretty sad. I use to love slipknot with a passion. To this day I still know every word to My Plague song is amazing. R.I.P

pedobear_ 5/24/2010 11:32:27 PM

lol

AaronForBattle 5/24/2010 11:32:32 PM

Not a fan of slipknot, but RIP, hope the best for his friends/fam n fans

motherfackingzambie 5/24/2010 11:55:19 PM

I hope they get the bassist from mudvayne.

IG88b 5/25/2010 12:15:28 AM

Whoa, just think about for a minute... If the bassist of Slipknot can die, than that means, we can too. That's some heavy shit right there.

zaomustdie 5/25/2010 12:15:50 AM

some kids with an unhealthy attachment to music type satirical commentary about a person who died. Get over yourself.

sgd54 5/25/2010 12:25:35 AM

37 is way too young to die

Burn_Everything 5/25/2010 12:49:17 AM

Hot Topic will be flying oversized black pants with 30 straps on them, at half mast.......

thesweepsareamazing 5/25/2010 12:50:19 AM

Slipknot - Self-Titled is heavier than anything anybody who talked shit on here listens to by far.

deadendroadz1 5/25/2010 12:51:05 AM

you can't kill me cuz i'm already inside you (sic). R.I.P. brother

raaaach 5/25/2010 12:57:48 AM

Quake 5/24/2010 10:15:05 PM Everyone loved Slipknot at one time or another... this is actually very sad.. :(--- Slipknot has been on my DO NOT LISTEN list for approximately every day of my life. Get the fck out, you Nu metal lovin' son of a gun.

forumdrama 5/25/2010 12:58:21 AM

Wait a minute, this nu metal gay shit gets front page, while Peter Steele and Ronnie James Dio get tidbits?

Art_Of_Desecration 5/25/2010 1:14:57 AM

I enjoyed the first album. RIP dude

destructive_corgi_puppy 5/25/2010 1:16:34 AM

barkbarkbarkbark (translation: a GRAY day for metal indeed, GRAY, LIKE HIS NAME? GET IT? hilarious i know, ill be at governors til wednesday, then carolines til next week. thanks for the great round of applause. GOODNIGHT!)

dOINK 5/25/2010 1:17:27 AM

Torche found out that he was in posession of some of their gear!

imgettingfat 5/25/2010 1:18:32 AM

Just for the record, Broken Glass by Crowbar is the heaviest record ever. You fartknocker.

rick____tocchet 5/25/2010 1:19:37 AM

let it rip

anaturaldisaster 5/25/2010 1:22:07 AM

Band was once good, and with rare exceptions, most of the people that post here own one of their albums or sold/traded it in a half-hearted attempted to shed their nu-ness. Shitty news, even though their last two albums blowed.

Doucheface 5/25/2010 1:31:47 AM

forumdrama 5/25/2010 12:58:21 AM Wait a minute, this nu metal gay shit gets front page, while Peter Steele and Ronnie James Dio get tidbits? THAT'S BECAUSE THE WEBMASTER RESPECTED THE OTHER 2, BUT NOT THIS GUY.

straightMOATED 5/25/2010 1:37:48 AM

Isn't he from Iowa? Why was he in a hotel instead of at mom and pap's? Gotta bang that heroin and end up morphing into a corpse during the night. Dead as fck. R.I.P

simonbyroncrybaby 5/25/2010 2:38:00 AM

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS

godfreyj0nes 5/25/2010 2:41:57 AM

*kneels down* *clears headstone of leaves*

ugly_old_guy 5/25/2010 3:00:53 AM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

imcoolyournot 5/25/2010 3:32:02 AM

Burn_Everything 5/25/2010 12:49:17 AM Hot Topic will be flying oversized black pants with 30 straps on them, at half mast....... ---hahahaha

dave_matthews_rulez 5/25/2010 3:42:00 AM

no it wasnt theprp it was i ate your microphone.com

marching_band_rules 5/25/2010 3:54:08 AM

sad

xadfx 5/25/2010 3:59:35 AM

too shit band, no care ever.

meatflip 5/25/2010 4:39:41 AM

Iowa is an actual state?

arty_mcfarty 5/25/2010 5:31:26 AM

this really needs to be on the front page? dio didn't even get that..........curse you webby *shakes fist at the sky*

casketofaids 5/25/2010 6:47:41 AM

LOL this is sweet

ToiletFleet 5/25/2010 7:04:52 AM

Now he's taking batting practice against Jose Lima in heaven.

hotdog_sundae_on_me 5/25/2010 7:16:00 AM

all you guys are gays. this guy was a gay. i guess its popular to like slipknot on the lg but in the end, youre all gays

DaviexDues 5/25/2010 8:37:33 AM

(dOINK 5/25/2010 1:17:27 AM Torche found out that he was in posession of some of their gear! ) ** HAHAHAHA

xmusicislifex 5/25/2010 8:47:41 AM

i hope everyone you all love die in the worst way possible :)

DaveClinch 5/25/2010 8:49:54 AM

I met Paul in Atlanta some years back and he was a super great guy. Such a shame.

CaseyMAN 5/25/2010 8:52:21 AM

I think it will be harder to find someone to wear a jumpsuit and mask in 100 degree weather than a new bass player. They could've just announced this and nobody would have ever known.

CaseyMAN 5/25/2010 8:53:19 AM

**They could've just not announced this and nobody would have ever known.

twat_waffle 5/25/2010 9:09:01 AM

OxyContin flip

DaviexDues 5/25/2010 9:35:08 AM

percussive barrel flip

tc09 5/25/2010 10:41:56 AM

forumdrama 5/25/2010 12:58:21 AM Wait a minute, this nu metal gay shit gets front page, while Peter Steele and Ronnie James Dio get tidbits?

thepickledpigsfeet 5/25/2010 10:48:44 AM

cocaine is a hellova drug!

meanmuggin 5/25/2010 11:00:39 AM

RIP

slamburger 5/25/2010 11:01:30 AM

pig benis is dead????..........*frrrrt*

hardware 5/25/2010 11:38:26 AM

Never got into the band, but I definitely wore JNCO's 15 years ago. RIP.

m_kwd 5/25/2010 11:57:51 AM

RIP. Iowa is still one of the most intense albums ever released, regardless of nu-metal or not. it's extreme metal at it's finest.

xheartfeltx 5/25/2010 12:11:59 PM

maggot for life..oh...wait..

IStillBelieveInWhtWeBuilt 5/25/2010 12:16:51 PM

listened to this stuff in my early teens. no fcking care ever now but RIP.

DeadFlagBlues 5/25/2010 1:15:10 PM

Drug user dies from using drugs. No care.

grizzlybear 5/25/2010 1:56:53 PM

what the fck ever. gay bassist for some gay band found dead in some gay hotel. 100.

PapHimself 5/25/2010 2:36:36 PM

RIP. It's sad and all but... fck DRUGS AND NU METAL.

Brett_ 5/25/2010 3:11:33 PM

YouGotScanned 5/24/2010 10:57:32 PM Slipknot's first record is better than 90% of any kind of hardcore or metal that ever existed. <---- You sir are SADLY mistaken.

LURKHARD 5/25/2010 3:46:26 PM

When did all these slipknot worshiping juggalos start posting on lambgoat? Bus Flip imo, it's faster then drugs

xrebelheartsx 5/25/2010 3:57:11 PM

m_kwd 5/25/2010 11:57:51 AM RIP. Iowa is still one of the most intense albums ever released, regardless of nu-metal or not. it's extreme metal at it's finest.<< that explains a lot about your band.

thelindbergbaby 5/25/2010 4:26:57 PM

junkie. no care.

sgt_grumbles 5/25/2010 5:10:28 PM

He did his time and he wanted out.

bloodasink 5/25/2010 7:01:25 PM

What?!!! That's a fcking tragedy that the hotels check out time was earlier than noon.

kingofallkings 5/25/2010 8:13:18 PM

1 down and only 8 more to go. get bent gayg0ts

emoxfag 5/25/2010 8:34:15 PM

death to false metal.

Chansey 5/25/2010 8:49:47 PM

Scanning through these comments, all I have to say is: are you fcking kidding me? Nuclear death to humanity. All of you get killed.

this_might_be_satire 5/25/2010 9:42:39 PM

when your 555 your 6 feet under

nashvegas 5/25/2010 10:16:28 PM

if it was one of the three drummers, I think it wouldn't have been too tragic..but the bassist?? shit, only one of them.

sgd54 5/25/2010 10:23:08 PM

By: ShaolinLambKiller on 5/24/2010 9:59:33 PM Paul's wife has a quirky, art school attractiveness. I like boys, though. Give me some John Mayer any day. Though I'd gag him with my big rod.

tzaz2507 5/25/2010 11:29:48 PM

the baha men are heavier, he shouldnt have turned em down

severedintwo 5/26/2010 1:40:51 AM

fckING DIO!

BalconyCollapse 5/26/2010 3:10:45 AM

this makes me sad, cause i once sold a burned copy of Iowa in high school for $5 to buy weed. I should've held out, I probably could've gotten more for it now.

Aper 5/26/2010 6:48:46 AM

"I find it funny that all the people hating are really old and think their cool cuz they listen to real hxc music.". Yeah, fcking ADTR is real hxc to them, as well as Attack Attack. Some guys here are just plain lucky it's not a face to face talk.

cokietheclown 5/26/2010 8:35:44 AM

rip used to be a big fan of slipknot. the comments on this page are hillariovs.

staynegativefaggot 5/26/2010 9:43:25 AM

THIS IS A MIRACLE, ICP WAS RITE THE WHOLE TIME

ted_nuge 5/26/2010 11:28:51 AM

if its drugs....no care ever

notransfer 5/26/2010 3:06:37 PM

rip individuals indispensable

fat_fuck 5/26/2010 9:46:22 PM

so its confirmed. Paul Gray memorial tattoos are in and Dimebag memorial tattoos are out.

drakesavage 5/27/2010 9:46:19 PM

Really sad news

xfuckthisx 10/8/2010 12:12:30 PM

i liked em too but then i grew a pair. fck this loser.

Snoopy 11/7/2011 2:53:39 PM

I do heroin every day and never have I OD'ed once. pssy.

anonymous 7/11/2013 7:37:09 PM

SlipKnot's 1st album was heavy as fck, when I seen them at Ozzfest when they were touring for the release of what ever the fck it is called, The good SK album. But he was one of the worst bassist, I thought this dude died in a lamborgini accident

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