Boy do we have some amazing numerology to look at. In July 2021, a handful of artist from the world of rock and roll got their “retirement packages” and died. On July 14, we had both the lead guitarist Jeff LaBar and the touring keyboardist Gary Corbett of the glam metal band Cinderella die on the same freakin’ day. Plus, Gary Corbett died the day before his birthday. Then on July 26, we had the deaths of Mike Howe and Joey Jordison. Mike Howe was an American heavy metal singer who performed with Metal Church, Heretic, and Snair. Nathan Jonas “Joey” Jordison was an American musician and songwriter, best known as the drummer, co-songwriter and one of the founding members of the metal band Slipknot as well as guitarist for horror punk band Murderdolls. Finally on July 28, American rock band ZZ Top‘s bassist Dusty Hill died. If your keeping score at home then you can see we have enough members for a whole band.
Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone is the final studio album released by the band to feature their full original lineup with two longtime members: bassist and founding member (#2) Paul Gray, who was found dead in an Iowa hotel on May 24, 2010, almost two years after the release of All Hope Is Gone, and drummer (#1) Joey Jordison, who was fired from the group in December 2013. The members of Slipknot use numbers to identify themselves, not names, and the second song on All Hope Is Gone is titled “Gematria (The Killing Name)”. Gematria is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a letter of the alphabet. Gematria and date calculation is what we love to look at on this blog, so let’s have a go at it.
In a previous Slipknot investigation we mentioned that Nathan Jonas “Joey” Jordison =282 was 12,812 days old when his bandmate Paul Gray died and All Hope Is Gone =828 released on 8/20/08. We’re going to add some more patterns to this sequence here. Time =282. Joey Jordison was 282 weeks old when Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham died. Joey was born a span of 8 years 11 months 28 days after the founding the Church of Satan and Joey Jordison/Mike Howe died 2,882 weeks after the Church of Satan founded. Mike Howe’s birthday was the day after All Hope Is Gone released. Howe’s birthday was on 8/21. Slipknot’s second studio album Iowa released on 8/28/01. Jordison was in the Murderdolls and their debut album Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls =2802 released on 20/8/02.
Mike Howe was exactly 282 weeks old when ZZ Top’s First Album released. On ZZ Top’s album Fandango!, Dusty Hill sang lead vocal on “Tush“, the band’s first Top 20 hit and one of its most popular songs. Slipknot’s Paul Gray died 12,820 days after Fandango!‘s release. ZZ Top were inducted into the R&RHOF by Keith Richards, who was 282 weeks old when Dusty Hill was born. Mike Howe and Joey Jordison died on Mick Jagger‘s birthday, plus Jagger was at the R&RHOF induction of ZZ Top. Dusty Hill was 1,281 weeks 2 days old when Slipknot’s vocalist Corey Taylor was born (on 12/8).
RIP =282. The Cinderella bandmates Jeff LaBar and Gary Corbett died a span of 12,820 days after Cinderella’s debut album Night Songs =828. Jeff LaBar was 128 months 20 days old when Slipknot’s vocalist Corey Taylor was born.
Numerology =55. Golden Ratio =505. Mike Howe and Joey Jordison died on the same day and were born exactly 505 week apart. It has been report that Howe died from an apparent suicide =505. Mike Howe died at the age of 55 years 11 months 5 days and similarly Joey Jordison died at the exact age of 555 months. Divine Timing =555. Mike Howe was the second singer of Metal Church to have died, following David Wayne‘s death on 5/10/05. Dusty Hill was a span age of 55 years 51 weeks when Metal Church vocalist David Wayne died.
Occult Ritual =155. Joey =55 Jordison was the founding drummer for Slipknot =55 and died 155 months after the release of Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone, the last album to include Paul Dedrick Gray =155 on bass guitar. Slipknot’s vocalist Corey Taylor was born when Joey Jordison was a span age of 505 days.
Joey Jordison was 10,551 days old when ZZ Top were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Joey Jordison was 15,500 days old when Tom Petty =55 overdosed and Jordison was 55 months old when Jimi Hendrix =55 died. Jordison was 505 months 1 day old when Gregg Allman died. Jordison was 550 months 5 days old when Bunny Wailer died earlier this year.
Mike HOWE =155 was a span age of 50 years 15 weeks when former STP =55 frontman Scott Weiland overdosed. Howe was a span age of 15 years 15 weeks 5 days when The Beatles’ John Lennon was assassinated by Mark David Chapman, who was born 5/10/55. Howe was a span age of 5,515 days when Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham =155 died.
Jordison/Howe’s deaths were 15,515 days after the Sex Pistol’s bassist Sid Vicious died from an overdose and Dusty Hill was 1,550 weeks 1 day old when Sid died.
Entertainment =555. Entertainers =555. Dusty Hill was a span age of 15 years 155 days when US Vice President Kamala Harris was born. Dusty was 5,051 days old when Cinderella’s Jeff LaBar was born. LaBar was 51 years 5 days old when GWAR‘s lead vocalist Dave Brockie died. Jeff LaBar was 555 month 1 week old when Michael Jackson died. Cinderella’s touring keyboardist Gary Corbett was 55 years 150 days old when Joey Jordison left the band Slipknot. LaBar/Corbett died 55 years 10 weeks 5 days after the founding of the Church of Satan =55. Wicked =55. Satan/Lucifer =555.
Dusty Hill was a span age of 51 years 51 weeks 5 days when Slipknot’s song “The Heretic Anthem” released as a single on 15/5/01 and it has the lyrics “If you’re 555, then I’m 666!”. We’ve covered the fives, now on the sixes!
Now for everyone’s favorite numbers, the 666/999 sequences.
Slipknot =696. The Killing Name =1696. The Murderdolls =696. Joey Jordison died a span of 6,916 days after the release of the Murderdolls’ debut album Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls.
Joey Jordison was born a span of 1,666 days after Janis Joplin overdosed. Sex Pistol’s bassist Sid Vicious overdosed when Jordison was 196 weeks 6 days old. Jordison was born 69 months 6 days after the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Ministry‘s frontman and lyricist Al Jourgensen was 16 years 199 days old when Joey Jordison was born. Joey was 6,919 days old when Kurt Cobain killed himself, at the age of 9,906 days.
Dusty =966 Hill made an on-screen appearance in the 11th-season episode of King of the Hill, titled “Hank Gets Dusted“, in which Hank Hill is said to be Dusty’s cousin. Believe it or not, Joey Jordison was 1,666 weeks 1 day old when “Hank Gets Dusted” aired. The eliminating of all these musicians so closely together reminds me of ZZ Top’s album Eliminator, which released exact 1,999 weeks before the deaths of LaBar/Corbett.
The film Rockstar =666, about a tribute band singer who is asked to join the band he has tried to imitate, was loosely based on Tim “Ripper” Owens‘ career. Dusty Hill was 6,691 days old when Ripper was born.
Alphanumerical Harmonics =999. Jordison/Howe died a span of 9 years 99 days after the death of Levon Helm, the drummer and one of the vocalists for the Band. Jordison/Howe died a span of 199 months 19 days after heavy metal guitarist Dimebag Darrell was murdered while performing on stage. We decoded Dimebag and his brother’s death here.
Jordison was a span of 9,619 days after Aaliyah died in an airplane crash. Jordison/Howe died 6,099 days after Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
Mike Howe was 6 years 69 days old when Duane Allman died from a motorcycle accident (the founder and original leader of the Allman Brothers Band). Howe was born 6 years 199 days after the plane crash in Iowa which is known as the Day the Music Died. Iowa is the state that Slipknot is from.
The Cinderella bandmates LaBar/Corbett died 999 days before the next Great American Solar Eclipse on 8 April 2024. Cinderella guitarist Jeff LaBar was 699 months old when he died. LaBar was 6 years 6 months 6 days old when Slipknot’s Shawn Crahan, aka #6, was born and Crahan’s daughter died the day before Dusty Hill’s birthday.
Heavy Metal =1669. Jeff LaBar as a span age of 69 months 19 days when singer Marilyn Manson was born and Marilyn Manson was a span age of 19,196 days when Jordison/Howe died.
John Lennon’s assassin, Mark David Chapman =699, was 66 years 9 weeks old when Jeff LaBar and Gary Corbett =1666 died. LaBar/Corbett’s deaths were a span of 16 years 66 days after the death of David Wayne, the second singer of Metal Church to have died (preceding Mike Howe’s death).
ZZ Top and “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business” James Brown played the Super Bowl XXXI halftime show and Dusty Hill was 691 months 6 days old when James Brown died (Christmas Day 2006). Dusty Hill was 66 years 6 months old when Scott Weiland overdosed. Dusty Hill was 1,999 weeks 1 day old when Peter Tosh was murdered in 1987 during a home invasion. Peter Tosh, along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, were the core of The Wailers. Mike Howe was 666 months 10 days old when Bunny Wailer died earlier this year.
The Swedish neoclassical heavy metal guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen was 696 months old when all five of our musicians died in July.
Joey Joridson and Mike Howe died 1,996 weeks after the founding of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (R&RHOF). Jordison and Mike Howe’s death was 96 days before the 2021 R&RHOF induction ceremony. The Dogs Days of Summer for 2021 will end on August 11 and this will be exactly 1,999 weeks since the founding of the R&RHOF and a span of 9,099 days since Tupac died, making it a prime day for some foolery.
Switching to a lower frequency here.
(#1) Joey Jordison =166 was 16,600 days old when legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen died. EVH decode here.
Rock and Roll =66. ZZ Top’ bassist Dusty Hill was a span age of 61 years 6 days when Slipknot bassist Paul Gray =606 died. Bewitched =616. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons =616 was a span age of 61 years 160 days when Paul Gray died. Ritual Sacrifice =616. ZZ Top’s drummer Frank Lee Beard =66 was 61 years 11 months 1 week 6 days old when Paul Gray died.
Singer Marilyn Manson was a span age of 6 years 16 weeks when Mike Howe was born.
Slipknot =199. Jordison/Howe died exactly 199 weeks after Tom Petty’s death.
Jordison/Howe died 196 weeks 1 day after the death of Daisy Berkowitz, co-founder of the rock band Marilyn Manson. We decoded Daisy Berkowitz aka Scott Putesky here.
Cinderella’s Gary Corbett was born 15 July 1958, the 196th day of the year, leaving 169 days remaining. Gary Corbett was 16 years 9 months 11 days old when Jordison was born. Jordison/Howe died exactly 1,069 weeks after Blind Melon‘s Shannon Hoon overdosed. The daughter of Slipknot’s Shawn Crahan died on Dusty Hill’s last day of being 69 years old (Hill turned 70 the day after she died). Dusty Hill, Joey Jordison, and Mike Howe died 906 weeks after ZZ Top were inducted into the R&RHOF.
Gematria =444. The Murderdolls’ lead vocalist, Wednesday 13, was 44 years 11 months 14 days old when his former bandmate Nathan Jonas “Joey” Jordison =4044 died. Beastie Boys‘ Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch died when Joey was 444 months old.
- Part of Slipknot’s gimmick was all the members wore masks and I think this is worth pointing out due to intermittent world wide mask mandates due to the Coronavirus plan-demic. One of the COVID-19 events we broke down on this blog was the death of Li Wenliang, who blew the whistle on the Coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. Jordison was exactly 44 years 41 weeks old when Li Wenliang died from COVID-19 =444.
Jordison/Howe died a span of 444 days after the death of Little Richard. Metal Church =44 vocalist Mike Howe was a span age of 4,444 days when Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crash. Howe was 41 years 4 months 4 days old when James Brown died. Jordison/Howe died 4,414 days after Michael Jackson‘s death. Mike Howe =44.
Joseph Michael “Dusty” Hill =444 was featured in the King of the Hill episode “Hank Gets Dusted” which aired when Cinderella’s Jeff LaBar was 44 years 14 days old. Joey Jordison was 11 years 44 days old when Cinderella’s debut album Night Songs =444 released. Dusty Hill died in his sleep and was 444 months old when Cinderella’s Night Songs released.
Dusty Hill was 440 months 4 days old when the inaugural class was inducted into the R&RHOF. Dusty Hill was 444 months old when the movie Heavy Metal Parking Lot was filmed.
Cinderella’s Jeff LaBar was born a span of 4 years 44 days after the Day the Music Died. LaBar/Corbett =444. LaBar/Corbett died exactly 44 weeks after the death of Kool & the Gang co-founder Ronald Bell (who we decoded here). Ronald Nathan Bell =144.
ZZ Top =33. Dusty Hill was a span age of 31 years 130 days when Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham died. Cinderella’s Jeff LaBar was a span age of 3,030 days when Jim Morrison died. Cinderella’s Gary Corbett was a span age of 33 years 133 days when Freddy Mercury died. Corbett/LaBar died 33 years 10 months 3 days after the death of Peter Tosh.
Mike Howe was a span age of 31 years 3 weeks 3 days when Tupac died. Mike Howe was a span age of 33 years 313 days when Slipknot’s debut studio album released. Mike Howe was 3,031 days old when Slipknot’s vocalist Corey Taylor =133 was born. Joey Jordison died a span of 10 years 330 days after the release of the final studio album from his other band the Murderdolls =133. Joey was born 303 weeks 3 days after the founder and original leader of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, was found dead in his swimming pool.
Jordison/Howe died on July 26, (7+26 =33). Jordison/Howe died a span of 31 years 130 days after the death of Andrew Wood, lead singer and lyricist for the alternative rock bands Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone. Yngwie Malmsteen was 3,030 weeks 1 day old when Jordison/Howe died.
In 1975 Dusty Hill sang lead vocal on “Tush“, ZZ Top’s first Top 20 hit and one of its most popular songs. “Tush” was on the album Fandango! =88 which released 8 days before the birth of Joey Jordison. Alex Van Halen was 818 months 18 days old when Jordison/Howe died. ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill was 8,080 days old when Jim Morrison died. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons was 818 weeks 1 day old when Mike Howe was born. Cinderella’s Jeff LaBar was a span age of 888 days when Mike Howe was born.
It was first reported that Dusty Hill died on 7/27 but then changed to July 28. Regardless Hill died at the age of 72 years 70 days and Dusty’s death was 7 years 127 days after the death of Dave Brockie, lead vocalist for GWAR. Mike Howe was a span age of 1,217 weeks 2 days when the King of the Hill episode “Hank Gets Dusted”, featuring Dusty Hill, aired.
Metal Church vocalist Mike Howe was 2,072 weeks old when founding Metal Church vocalist David Wayne died. The Dark was the last Metal Church album to feature David Wayne and Mike Howe died 12,712 days after the release of The Dark. The first Metal Church album to feature Mike Howe was Blessing in Disguise and it released (on 2/7) when Dusty Hill was 2,072 weeks old. Damned If You Do is the last Metal Church album to feature Howe and he died a span of 2 years 7 months 20 days after the (12/7) release of Damned If You Do =2072. Fun fact: Damned If You Do includes a song called “By The Numbers”, which they shot a music video for, and the first lyric in the song is “living my life by the numbers”.
Jordison/Howe died 1,272 weeks 1 day after the killing of The Notorious B.I.G.. Jordison/Howe died 12,721 days after the death of Cliff Burton, founding bassist for American heavy metal band Metallica. Burton =27/702. Jordison was 12,772 days old for the death of Peter Steele, the lead vocalist, bassist and composer of the gothic metal band Type O Negative. Joey Jordison was 27 months 21 days old when Elvis Pressley died. Jordison was 10 years 272 days old when the inaugural class was inducted into the R&RHOF.
- Lisa “Left Eye” Lopez died the day before Joey Jordison turned 27 years old.
- Joey Jordison =207 died on 26 July 2021, the 207th day of the year.
- Crahan =270. Jordison’s death were a span of 2 years 70 days after his Slipknot bandmate Shawn Crahan‘s youngest daughter overdosed.
ZZ Top were inducted into the R&RHOF by Keith Richards and Keith was 77 years 7 months old when Dusty Hill died.
Song =777. Metal Church vocalist Mike Howe was 7,717 days old when Metal Church released their album The Dark.
Jordison was 777 weeks when Mother Love Bone’s Andrew Wood overdosed. Drummer and singer Phil Collins was 70 years 177 days old when Jordison/Howe died.
The Cinderella bandmates Jeff LaBar and Gary Corbett were born 1,707 days apart. Jeff LaBar was born 18 March 1963, the 77th day of the year.
Keeping with tradition, our final section is reserved for the tasty Pi codes, 227 & 314.
Heavy Metal =314. Mike Howe is the second singer of Metal Church to have died, following David Wayne and Joey Jordison was 30 years 14 days old when David Wayne died.
Daisy Berkowitz aka Scott Putesky, co-founder of the rock band Marilyn Manson, died on 10/22/17 and on that day Jordison was 2,217 weeks 1 day old. Jordison was 2,207 days old when Bob Marley died.
Joseph Michael “Dusty” Hill =2027. Jordison, Howe, LaBar, Corbett, and Hill died 227 months after the death of Dave Williams, original vocalist for the nu metal band Drowning Pool. Drowning Pool is known for their song “Bodies” that features a heavy use of the lyric “let the bodies hit the floor”.
Jordison/Howe’s death was 227 weeks after Chuck Berry‘s death (and Berry died on Jeff LaBar’s birthday).
Cinderella =227. The Cinderella bandmates died 71 years 21 week 2 days after the premiere of Walt Disney’s Cinderella. Eclipse =314. The Cinderella bandmates LaBar/Corbett died a span of 2 years 270 days before the next Great American Solar Eclipse on 8 April 2024. LaBar/Corbett died 1,227 weeks after Sonny Bono‘s death. Gary Corbett was 3,014 weeks old when the artist Prince =227 died.