List of Slipknot band members
Josh Brainard was a member of the original band formed in 1995. Brainard left the band while they were recording Slipknot in 1999. No one knows why Brainard really left, it was widely thought to have been because of family problems. However Brainard denies these rumours, saying that; "some decisions were made that I wasn't particularly happy with."