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"The very first thought that came into my head was, ‘This band are going to get ripped off’." Corrupt police, crumbling dictatorships and amateur translators: The 80s metal classic that smashed borders and helped launch one of metal's most iconic labels

How a bunch of feral boys from Brazil helped reshape metal for decades to come

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"I was sitting near Judas Priest, Sharon and Ozzy, Joey from Slipknot was there...three surreal days." The cult Italian band that broke boundaries and became household names in metal thanks to this classic 00s album

Before this release, these gothic metallers weren't well known outside of their homeland. That quickly changed

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"There were no rules; ideas could come from anywhere: subtle drum loops, bits of organ or abstract guitar noise, even samples of frogs or crickets." Long-awaited Slipknot project Look Outside Your Window is finally being released

Look Outside Your Window was recorded while Slipknot were in the studio making 2008's All Hope Is Gone album

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"He figured we were gonna get knifed...some guys were swinging pool cues!" From Peaky Blinders bar fights to being Slipknot-endorsed, how four Swedish hillbillies became one of metal's most exciting bands

Endorsed by Slipknot, Machine Head and Trivium, Orbit Culture are one of extreme metal's hottest new bands

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"We invited our families along, not thinking how it would be for them. When we came off, my sister was crying." How a teen pop duo earned the respect of Slipknot and Rage Against The Machine by getting bottled off stage by furious rock fans

In 2000, one of the strangest festival bookings in history unsurprisingly ended in chaos

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"Calvin Klein asked us to do an advert. We were like, 'f-you, no way!' That would have been huge." From touring with Slipknot to turning down iconic fashion designers, the story behind Kittie's classic nu metal anthem, Brackish

Kittie's breakthrough single made them accidental trailblazers in a nu metal scene dominated by men

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“A professor in my pocket who only wants to do what I ask it”: Slipknot’s Shawn Crahan says he’s been using AI “my whole life”

He says it’s cheaper than employing a human

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“It is a professor in my pocket who only wants to do what I ask it”: Slipknot’s Clown defends AI, breaking rank from other high-profile metal musicians

The Nine’s co-founder and percussionist asks, “What’s the difference between me pulling out my pocket producer… or me trying to get a famous producer that might not even work with me and could potentially cost me $150,000?”

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“We weren’t scared of grunge. We would see Dave Grohl wearing Sepultura t-shirts”: It was built on death metal – until three iconic bands helped turn this underground record company into the most influential metal label of the 90s

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"It was the perfect tragedy. Heavy metal albums found in their rooms, antisocial behaviour." How Lemmy, Corey Taylor, Henry Rollins and the metal community united to save three teenagers at the heart of a murder case that shocked America

The story of the West Memphis Three captured the attention of the metal world - and some of its biggest artists took action

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Slipknot tore Europe a new one during their tour this summer – this pro-shot footage from a Spanish festival proves it

The nine-piece played a particularly destructive show at Resurrection Fest in Viveiro, Spain in June

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“We’d jump off roofs or off bridges into water, knock the wind out of ourselves and almost die. We lived very aggressively because that’s who we were”: The story of Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. – the secret debut album that started Slipknot’s ascent

Before Corey Taylor and before the nu metal takeover, Slipknot launched their career with a DIY release that put the Des Moines scene on notice

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"What will his legacy be? His guitar playing. He could bend just one note and tell a whole story. I can hear David Gilmour in his playing." Slipknot member Alessandro ‘V-Man’ Venturella pays tribute to Mastodon guitarist and his dear friend, Brent Hinds

V-Man once worked as Brent Hinds' guitar tech and became lifelong bros with the Mastodon man

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“I wanted it to be a workhorse I could bash around, beat up, hit with metal pipes and get thrown into kegs without breaking in half”: The making of Jim Root’s Telecaster, the guitar that brought Fender into the modern age

Some metal players prefer the traditional high-performance brands. Others favor medieval shapes. Not Root. The Slipknot guitarist wanted something old-school, classy… indestructible

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Slipknot-endorsed Mapuche metal champions Mawiza have recorded a live session in Gojira’s studio – and you really need to watch it

Hailing from Santiago, Chile, the four-piece are flying the flag for South America’s Indigenous Mapuche people

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Slipknot to release 'lost' album Look Outside Your Window in 2026

Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan has dropped a huge hint the heavy metal outfit are set to release their delayed "lost" album Look Outside Your Window, which they recorded in 2008, next year.

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Long-delayed Slipknot project Look Outside Your Window will finally drop in 2026, Shawn “Clown” Crahan promises

The “experimental”, “melodic” album was recorded in 2008 and has been delayed again and again and again over the last seven years

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Corey Taylor’s son Griffin remembers the first time he saw his dad in his Slipknot mask: “Who the **** is this guy?!”

The future Vended frontman thought his father looked like a cross between a goldfish and a potato

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"They talk about that album in the same way I talk about Ziggy Stardust...and it was the first time a Slipknot member had unmasked!" How a metal icon embraced horror and glam rock to make one of the most surprising side projects ever

When it was revealed that one of Slipknot's most beloved members had a new project on the go, no one could have predicted how it'd end up sounding

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Vote: who are the Big 4 in all of metal?

Thrash's Big 4 has been settled for decades, but what if we push it out to the whole genre? Who gets in?

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Rob Zombie, Lamb Of God and Svalbard are among this week's best new metal songs. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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“I get into arguments with fans all the time about this. Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, it’s just a leftover Stone Sour song.’ No, I wrote that for Slipknot!” How Slipknot made the greatest metal ballad of the 21st century

Inspired by Corey Taylor’s divorce and redefined after the death of Paul Gray, Snuff shows The Nine at their most beautifully vulnerable

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Slipknot sell majority stake of back catalogue to global investment firm

Slipknot have confirmed they have sold a majority stake of their back catalogue to a global investment firm, who are "honoured" to help "preserve and amplify" the Wait and Bleed hitmakers' work for "decades and generations to come".

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"I still have so much music in my heart." The frontman of one of nu metal's coolest bands has been found living on the streets - and fans are desperate to help him

Cameron Heacock, whose band American Head Charge toured with Slipknot and Rammstein and worked with Rick Rubin, says he has been homeless for years

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Here's who I'd put on my Mount Rushmore of nu metal (three spots were easy, one was excruciatingly hard)

Nu metal has produced some of heavy music's biggest bands - and here are the four artists I'd hold up as the genre's Big 4

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