Slipknot Bassist Is Found Dead
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Source Link (NY Times)
The police in Iowa said that they would have more information on the death of Paul Gray, the bassist and a co-founder of the heavy metal band Slipknot, after an autopsy on Tuesday, but that foul play was not immediately suspected, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Gray, 38, was found dead on Monday at a TownePlace Suites hotel in Johnston, Iowa, north of Des Moines. In the early 1990s he helped found Slipknot, the nihilistic if highly theatrical band whose members wear gruesome masks and refer to themselves by numbers and evocative nicknames (Mr. Gray went by No. 2 or