It seems that Slipknot is up in arms over Burger King’s new promotion for their Chicken Fries and, according to the documentation up at The Smoking Gun, are suing BK in a big way. As an aside, I had no idea that there was a Slipknot generation. This frightens me to the bowels of my…bowels.

Claiming that its image and persona have been hijacked as part of a marketing campaign for Burger King’s new chicken fries, the costumed heavy metal band Slipknot is threatening the fast food giant with legal action. In the below August 4 letter, the band’s lawyers charge that Coq Roq–a mock metal band featured in new Burger King commercials–was created as a “look-alike, sound alike ‘band’ in order to influence the Slipknot generation to purchase Chicken Fries.”

Heh. “Coq Roq.”

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