"Channeling pain into a No. 1 album: Slipknot deals with a tragic death

Channeling pain into a No. 1 album: Slipknot deals with a tragic death  Mashable! by Brian Anthony Hernandez  On Slipknot's somber new song "Goodbye," frontman Corey Taylor laments the death of founding member and bassist Paul Gray, who died in 2010 from a drug overdose.

"It’s Three Years Since We Lost Paul Gray

It’s Three Years Since We Lost Paul Gray

Paul Gray’s passing in 2010 shocked the metal world

Incredibly, it’s now been three years since the world lost Paul Gray. Slipknot‘s bassist, prominent songwriter and, above all else, brother-in-arms was an integral part of the Iowa legends’ makeup, and his passing rocked an already bewildered metal world that had only lost the great Ronnie James Dio a week earlier.