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From Metallica surprise shows to Slipknot triumphs, these are the 13 greatest Download festival sets ever

For over two decades, Download has been the premiere rock and metal festival in the UK. These are its finest moments

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“I heard Lars Ulrich jumped out of a helicopter as it was landing and disappeared”: What happened the night Metallica’s drummer went missing – and Slipknot and Slayer saved the day

Unexpectedly down an original member, Metallica headlined Download festival 2004 backed up by Joey Jordison and Dave Lombardo

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“Screens and fake news and artificial intelligence… we don’t need that in the way of our connections”: How Sepultura made their technophobic final statement, The Cloud Of Unknowing

As Brazil’s groove metal heroes prepare to call it quits, we speak to guitarist Andreas Kisser about their swansong EP

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"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

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“People think that Enjoy The Silence could be one of our songs. That was the whole point”: From modern goth anthems to a career-defining Depeche Mode cover, Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia breaks down her life in 11 tracks

The vocal dynamo looks back at her three decades on Italian metal’s frontlines

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Slipknot side-project Look Outside Your Window to get wider vinyl and CD release next month

No word on whether or not it’ll hit streaming services, though

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“I have a skipping heart and I got to get a surgery”: Slipknot’s Shawn Crahan speaks about his health problems and how he sometimes feels like he’s “dying”

Percussionist turned down the idea of having a pacemaker

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"When we played in America with bands we influenced, their fans were like, ‘Who are you?'" They've inspired generations of huge bands, toured with Slipknot and helped put Swedish metal on the map. This is the story of In Flames

How one band helped craft a new sound that changed the fate of metal forever

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"I’llgo from on, to just straight up I feel likeI’mdying." Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan needs heart surgery

Slipknot percussionist Clown needs surgery after discovering his heartbeat skips

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“I was always sober so I couldn’t understand: 'Why are you throwing away your life?'" Addiction, fights and intervention from the 'Metal Godfather': How Five Finger Death Punch came back from the brink

With 2020's F8, Five Finger Death Punch proved they could move beyond a difficult few years (with the help of All That Remains, Korn and Judas Priest)

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Hear Slipknot’s Corey Taylor rage against social media on new Motionless In White single Playing God: “The internet has gotten worse and worse”

The furious track is taken from the metalcore quintet’s upcoming album Decades

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“I got punched in the face and I punched back, and that’s crazy?” Machine Gun Kelly remembers his feud with Slipknot’s Corey Taylor a little differently to the rest of us

The rapper-turned-rocker insists he merely “punched back” at the metal star, even though the spat stemmed from comments he made lambasting the heavy music scene

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Kelly Osbourne Looks Happier and Healthier Months After Internet Sleuths Criticised Her 'Skeletal' and 'Thin' Look

Kelly Osbourne, after facing criticism for her weight loss, shares a happier outlook. Following personal challenges, including her father's death and a split, she appears healthier and content.

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Slipknot become early frontrunner for ‘weirdest collaboration of the year’ award as (sic) pops up in hallucinogenic Gucci advert

Who knew that nine masked, bodysuit-wearing, baseball bat-wielding hooligans were so synonymous with fashion?

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"We didn’t talk to each other for three months." Haunted houses, fallouts and a drunken singer: inside Slipknot's experimental masterpiece, Vol. 3

After the phenomenal success of Iowa, Slipknot took a break. But where there had once been unity, there was now conflict. Yet they produced something that defied any expectations...

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Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg reveals he first jammed with the band just 24 hours before they announced the departure of Joey Jordison

Weinberg played with Slipknot from 2014 to 2023, and admits he has "no regrets" about his time in the band as he lines up new projects

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“I told her to write a poem about batteries that are dying that cannot be recharged”: Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan explains how Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia ended up on Look Outside Your Window

Scabbia, who was in a relationship with ’Knot guitarist Jim Root from 2004 to 2017, lends her voice to two songs on the long-delayed project

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“John 5 was probably the only other dude who was playing a Tele in metal. By nature, it was designed for country and chicken pickin’”: Why Jim Root eschewed traditional metal guitars and made the Telecaster his main Slipknot instrument

The player reveals who first drew him to the now 75-year-old instrument – and it might surprise you

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“Joey was the best that ever did it. The greatest drummers would come to our shows to watch this guy play”: Slipknot DJ Sid Wilson pays tribute to his late former bandmate Joey Jordison

Slipknot’s founding drummer departed the band in 2013, before dying in July 2021 aged 46

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"The vibe is definitely Slipknot except no screams." Slipknot fan compares Look Outside Your Window album to Pink Floyd after getting early listen, claims Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia appears

Look Outside Your Window, a long-shelved project recorded in 2008, is due to come out on Record Store Day, April 18

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"Trust me, the music that he's into, it’ll make your songs be like Mary Had a Little Lamb." How Sopranos legend Stevie Van Zandt persuaded Bruce Springsteen to take a chance on future Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg

How Jay Weinberg went from playing New York bars to playing stadiums with Bruce Springsteen as a teenager

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Are Kelly Osbourne, Sid Wilson Together Again? Here's Why Their Engagement 'Ended In Pain'

Kelly Osbourne says her engagement to Slipknot's Sid Wilson 'ended in pain' but insists she still believes in 'real love' after their split and Ozzy's death, as new romance rumours link her to hair creative Kiinicki.

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Kelly Osbourne Finds Solace With Brother Louis Amid Sid Wilson Split—Can They Still Be Together Again?

Kelly Osbourne is leaning on her older brother Louis and their extended family in London after her split from fiancé Sid Wilson and the death of her father, Ozzy Osbourne.

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"English people don't really want to feel that much." The curious tale of Robert Smith's least favourite Cure album, despite him telling the world "anyone who doesn't like this just doesn't like the Cure"

"More passion went into the making of this record than all the others combined"

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"Slipknot is a big scary monster and we're losing control of it." How Slipknot's angriest and sweariest song helped the metal icons land the heaviest number one album in history

As soon as people heard that crushing first song on Iowa, they knew we weren't getting a soft, sell-out second album

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