Nickname: None
Age: 32
Birthday: 26th April
Born: Des Moines, Iowa, at Mercy hospital.
Lives: Des Moines, IA.
Siblings: 2 younger sisters, Kate and Anne.
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 120lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Piercings: Lip, ears (x3), nose (on right), and eyebrow (x2 on left side).
Tattoos: None.
Injuries: Severely lacerated shin from pulling his drum set on top of himself, broken and scarred knuckles, concussion and stitches from a flying pipe thrown by #6.
Previous Jobs: His previous jobs include a midnight shift at Sinclair's gas station, helping out at his mom and stepdad's funeral parlour, and at Musicland, a store in west Des Moines.
Favourite Food: Mexican
Favourite Drink: Red wine
Favourite Bands/Greatest Influences: Black Sabbath (When he was 6, he had seen a news report stating that a metal star had bitten the head off of a bat the night before. A few days later he went out and bought the album Blizzard Of Ozz.), then Venom, Slayer, KISS, Jane's Addiction, Cannibal Corpse, Mercyful Fate, Fantomas, Misfits, Melvins, Motley Crue and some other 70's/80's glam stuff. (for example The New York Dolls, Faster Pussycat and Plasmatics - a group well-known for setting a car on fire on T.V.), Norwegian and Swedish black metal. Ministry.
Favourite Movie: Star Wars collection.
Other/Previous Bands: Before Slipknot he was in the bands Avanga, Havenots, Modifidious (with Craig Jones) and Anal Blast (with Paul Gray - he wrote the 'Vaginal Vempire' CD). Then he was in a punk band called The Rejects, now known as Murderdolls. He also joined black metal project Hell Pig with Necrophagia's frontman Killjoy (he also wanted to join Necrophagia when they looked for a drummer, but he was busy with Slipknot).
Bands played with: Biohazard, Amen, Hatebreed, Otep, Metallica, Necrophagia, Satyricon, RR United Allstars, Papa Roach, System Of A Down, American Head Charge, Ministry, korn.
First Instrument: Guitar, he started with it at age 5. He started playing drums at age 7, and only because he was in a band playing the guitar and the drummer wasn't cutting it... so Joey just filled in.
Other Facts:
- He made a cameo appearance in Marilyn Manson's 'Tainted Love' video.
- He did the backing vocals on the Machine Head song 'Nothing Left'.
- He remixed Marilyn Manson's 'Fight Song', which appears on the Resident Evil soundtrack. He is also a good friend of Manson.
- Wrote lyrics and performed on Necrophagia's 'Stitch Her Further'. Pimp My Profile
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