Corey Taylor and Simon Cowell are embroiled in a strange beef

Simon Cowell has been making headlines this week after he debuted his new leathery-face. Now, the music mogul has somehow gotten himself embroiled in a strange beef with metal’s favourite masked deviants, Slipknot.

UK Tabloid The Sun, ran a column by entertainment writer Simon Boyle, from the perspective of Simon Cowell. The column, appropriately titled Simon Boyle’s Bizarre Column saw the writer physically, and mentally transform himself into Cowell. In the column, Boyle touches on his new look, the entertainment business and his frustration over money printing-machine, Ed Sheeran, being knocked off the No.1 album spot by Slipknot.

“YOU all know I’m a pop guy – I mean, I’ve made millions from One Direction, Little Mix, Olly Murs and so on,” The column read.

“So I wasn’t impressed [when] Ed Sheeran – one of my faves but not a money-spinner for moi, annoyingly – has been knocked off the No1 album spot by some weirdo masked group called Slipknot. Hideous.

“I wonder if they’ll do X-Factor All-Stars next year. With a snappy dance routine and a makeover, they might have a future.”

Naturally, the column confused a lot of people. The satire was completely lost on Blood Youth guitarist Chris Pritchard. Pritchard shared a photo of the column on Twitter, writing “I loved watching Simon Cowell throw a tantrum over RAGE landing Christmas number 1 back in 2009, and I’m loving watching him throw a tantrum over Slipknot landing a number 1 record.

“Here’s to the future of heavy music, and to the next time Simon Cowell gets butthurt!”

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor responded to the tweet, implying that Cowell was still salty over getting a shoutout in his individual Christmas solo track ‘X-M@S’.

Hahaha he’s still pissed I threw a ‘Hi Simon’ into the end of ‘X-M@$’ 😜🤷‍♂️
— fuck your checkmark (@CoreyTaylorRock) August 17, 2019

Slipknot released their highly-anticipated sixth studio album, We Are Not Your Kind, on August 9th. The band will be heading down under in October in support of Metallica’s Australian WorldWired tour. Check out the tour dates and ticket information below.