If you are studying German/Deutsch it makes the story titled "Help" or "Hilfe" especially laugh out loud funny. Usually Duo's humour is cringe worthy or just awful, but this one made me chuckle out loud.
Just wanted to share this with you all. It was hard to come across.
Edited
Title should have been Slipknot beat Stone Sour in a 1996 Battle of the Bands — and ended up recruiting their frontman.
To the the newcomers (younger people just getting into this type of music now) to Slipknot and their history, here's something I hope you'll find interesting.
KKDM 107.5 runs a Battle of the Bands in Des Moines. Bracket comes out. Stone Sour vs Slipknot — Corey was the frontman of Stone Sour, while Anders Colsefni was the vocallist for Slipknot.
Stone Sour was Corey's band first. He'd been running it since '92. Slipknot were basically the new guys who'd recruited him mid-demo session — a Stone Sour demo he then just... didn't finish for five years.
Slipknot won. Narrowly. The judge said both bands deserved to win, which is what you say when you don't want to get stabbed in a Des Moines parking lot.
Prize was a grand and a master demo shopped to labels. Corey's original band walked away with nothing and he was on the winning side of history (if you can say that, as Stone Sour are a well respected band in their own right)
Genuinely one of the stranger footnotes in Iowa music history.
EDIT: Got called out and rightly so — major error in the original post. Corey was NOT in Slipknot at the time of the Battle of the Bands. Anders Colsefni was their vocalist in November 1996, not Corey. He was purely Stone Sour's guy at that point. The actual story: Slipknot beat Stone Sour in the closest matchup of the whole bracket, took the $1k prize and the S.R. Audio demo, then a year later recruited the singer (he was working at an adult xxxx store when Joey (RIP) and Shawn Crahan (Clown) were the two who primarily recruited him from the band they'd just knocked out. Cheers to everyone who corrected me — should've verified before .