A ladies' knitting club in Britain is reeling after fans of shock rock group Slipknot bombarded its Web site with threatening e-mails.
Some fans of the American thrash metal group are angry the knitters' quarterly journal -- called Slipknot -- could be confused with their idols.
"The e-mails have been pretty unpleasant, telling us that we shouldn't be on the Internet with the word Slipknot," said Rita Taylor, chair of The Knitting & Crochet Guild. "But we are not going to let it bother us."
She said the 1,000 or so middle-aged members of the Guild had little in common with fans of the American "nu metal" stars who call their fans maggots.
"We are interested in preserving and nurturing the skills of knitting and crochet," she said, "not this band, who I had never heard of before the e-mails." A spokeswoman for Slipknot's record label said she was not aware there had been any campaign against the knitting circle. Reuters