Slipknot’s Jim Root is a die-hard Telecaster advocate, but the Fender electric guitar isn’t very metal. That, he says, is exactly the point.
If we’re to play into clichés, metal guitars should be pointed and mean-looking, like they were forged in the fires of hell; they should be builds that wouldn’t look out of place in the devil’s hands... basically the opposite of the Hello Kitty guitar.
