The Mansion is a 10-bedroom mansion owned by music producer
Rick Rubin in the
Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles, originally built in 1918. The Mansion is famous for many bands who recorded their best titles. Although many say that
Harry Houdini lived at the mansion, no one has ever lived in the Mansion under the name "Houdini", a fact that
Corey Taylor, singer of the bands
Stone Sour and
Slipknot, has said in his book
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven. The book also describes his paranormal experiences in the Mansion while recording the Slipknot album
Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) in 2003. After recording the
Red Hot Chili Peppers's
Blood Sugar Sex Magik with considerable ease and comfort, Rubin decided to record many of the albums he has produced here, including the
Red Hot Chili Peppers's
Stadium Arcadium,
Audioslave's
Out of Exile,
The Mars Volta's
De-Loused in the Comatorium,
Slipknot's
Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), and
Linkin Park's
Minutes to Midnight.