A representative for SLIPKNOT's record label, Roadrunner Records, has told South Africa's The Times web site that the band had no comment regarding reports that the schoolboy (18-year-old Morné Harmse) who stabbed a fellow student to death with a sword in Krugersdorp, South Africa Monday morning (August 18) was dressed like SLIPKNOT drummer Joey Jordison.

Declining to provide her name, the woman at Roadrunner Records said: "We've had no confirmation that it was, in fact, a SLIPKNOT mask. The band is not going to respond."

When asked how they had found out about the stabbing, the representative would say only that people had been phoning the label all day.

Police found this mask (see below) which resembles that of SLIPKNOT vocalist Corey Taylor, among other "Satanic" materials, in Morné Harmse's room after he had killed Jacques Pretorius with a sword at a school in Krugersdorp. (Photo: Sizwe Ndingane, The Star)

Harmse's mask:

Corey Taylor:

Accused 18-year-old killer Morné Harmse:

Murdered 16-year-old student Jacques Pretorius: