Corey Taylor’s Son Explains Whether Slipknot Helps His Band Vended

Corey Taylor and Shawn “Clown” Crahan are heavy metal legends at this point for their lengthy success via Slipknot and beyond. Taylor and Crahan’s sons play together in their own outfit, Vended, and the band’s frontman Griffin Taylor spoke to Blabbermouth about whether or not their famous fathers pass along any advice.

“Kind of,” he said. “Our dads didn’t really teach us or mentor us over all of this stuff. They pretty much gave us the tools in order to do something, but they left us to do it for ourselves. They weren’t going to do it for us.”

He continued: “Overall, wanting to be independent was our idea. It was something we’ve always been talking about and always been in our heads: ‘We don’t want to be owned by somebody. We don’t want to be somebody else’s circus.’ We want to be our own circus with partnerships.”

“There’s no string-pulling here. There’s no, ‘Oh. Let me do something.’ It’s our job to take matters into our own hands. They don’t really do something for us other than give advice when we ask for it. It’s not like they’re throwing advice at us every other f*cking day of the week.”