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3. Joey Jordison Dies
As is customary with these lists, we'd like to inform you that we have now entered the sad portion. We will be discuss two people who died tragically young, so please skip ahead to the final entry if you want to avoid that.
On the 26th July 2021, former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison died. He was just 46 years old.
Jordison had played with the heavy metal juggernauts from their creation in 1995 right up until 2013. In that time, he wowed audiences with his technical playing ability and helped take the band to the lofty heights they find themselves at now.
He had publicly spoken about his battles with acute transverse myelitis, a rare inflammation of the spinal chord, but no official cause of death for the drummer has been released.
All we know is that he passed away in his sleep, which is a small comfort in the face of such horrifying news.
Though he wasn't actually in the band at the time of his death, Jordison will forever be linked to one of the biggest bands of all time. He did so much for Slipknot and the music community will never forget him.