“I was jamming and I heard 'Bam!' –I looked at the stage and there was an open Buck knife sticking in the screen of my cabinet”: Slipknot and Korn on the perils of life on the road

Slipknot.

Back in 2015, we sat down for a roundtable discussion with a quartet of guitarists who had come to shape the sound of modern metal. From nu metal pioneers Korn, we had James 'Munky' Shaffer and Brian 'Head' Welch and, from Slipknot, Jim Root and Mick Thomson.

Between them, the four men had been responsible for conjuring those all-important riffs that had formed the indomitable foundation of their respective bands’ sound.