As anyone who has ever been to a Slipknot concert will attest, their live shows are rather intense. In this Reddit thread, users who have attended their concerts note that they can be downright chaotic, if not borderline (or outright) violent.

Back in the late 1990s, Sid Wilson was keen to get hired by the band, and attended one of their shows in Iowa, as Revolver reported. At the time, during the song “Tattered and Torn,” Clown (Shawn Crahan) would jump into the crowd and wrap up attendees in his microphone cord. Wilson saw his chance to make an impression, and he did so in the most Slipknot way possible.

“I was on his a– like a f—ing Jedi Knight. I grabbed him by the head while he was still on the stage. I counted to five and headbutted him on six, which is his number. He fell down on his f—ing a–. It almost knocked him out,” he said.

Rather than press criminal charges or have his assailant thrown out, Crahan angled for getting Wilson into the band. “‘I don’t care what anybody in the f—ing band says, that dude’s in,'” Wilson quoted Crahan as having said to drummer Joey Jordison.