Brandon Darner (born February, 1977), was a replacement percussionist for Slipknot. He was recruited after the firing of Greg Welts, which left Slipknot in need of a second percussionist. He served as Joey Jordison's drum tech and Mick Thomson's guitar tech. He was replaced by Chris Fehn, current member. In the late 90's Brandon was also a drummer for the band "Sector7" and bass player for "One Cup Fat". Darner did have short success with (Slipknot founder) Shawn Crahan's other band To My Surprise, but has now left the band. He is currently a guitarist in Iowa based band The Envy Corps. His mask was an old ogre with gray hair and kind of looked like Shawn's clown mask.

Darner had 2 open-heart surgeries at a very young age, one surgery to put in an artificial valve and the second surgery to replace the first one. He was not expected to live past 18 years old.

External links

Brandon's Myspace

http://www.theenvycorps.com

http://www.myspace.com/theenvycorps