Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Slipknot

“Any kind of technical guitar playing was mocked and frowned upon”: Mick Thomson explains why his solos were erased from Slipknot’s debut album – and how he reacted

25 years ago, Slipknot dropped a debut album that changed the face of heavy metal – but one of the guitarists who helped write it had his solos completely removed

Guitar World

Corey Taylor weighs in on Dave Grohl affair scandal: ‘I know there are a lot of disappointed fans’

Grohl made the revelation that he had been unfaithful to his wife earlier this month

The Independent UK

Dave Grohl 'is still a nice person', says Slipknot's Corey Taylor

The rock icon revealed that he fathered a secret child outside of marriage

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Corey Taylor on the reactions to Dave Grohl's recent baby announcement: "If that’s the one thing that defines him, then what are we doing?"

Dave Grohl has made headlines for fathering a baby outside of marriage, and Corey Taylor has some thoughts on the whole thing

Metal Hammer

“I’m watching American TV and it’s like ‘Wow, man… what is this? This isn’t my America’”: How Machine Head followed a 21st century metal classic with Unto The Locust

Machine Head’s Unto The Locust was the follow-up to career high-point The Blackening – but Robb Flynn wasn’t feeling the presssure

Metal Hammer

Pro-Ject Debut Evo 2

With a lively, fluid delivery, a beautiful way with voices and an array of upgrades, the Pro-Ject Debut Evo 2 turntable is an appealing, capable performer for the price.

What Hi-Fi?

“I’m not saying my doing something else saved Slipknot, but it certainly saved me”: How Stone Sour made the leap from Corey Taylor’s ‘other band’ with Audio Secrecy

In 2010, Stone Sour released their third album Audio Secrecy – and finally shook off the ‘side project’ tag

Metal Hammer

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

“He did exactly what we told him not to do”: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor remembers the night he “almost killed” Sid Wilson

Slipknot’s singer calls the time he flipped his lid at turntablist Sid Wilson “one of the most evil moments of my life”

Metal Hammer

Joey Jordison’s estate has settled its lawsuit against Slipknot

Jordison’s estate sued Slipknot last year, accusing the nu metal stars of profiting off the late drummer’s death and withholding his belongings

Metal Hammer

"Someone said, 'If you see them without their masks on, they will come and kill you!'" Why I love Slipknot's debut album, by Jamie Campbell Bower

The Bloodmagic frontman and Stranger Things actor on why Slipknot's first album remains unlike any other in metal

Metal Hammer

Slipknot's set at Knotfest Iowa cut short by severe weather

Slipknot forced to play earlier than planned and were onstage for under an hour as weather turned ugly

Metal Hammer

“You would see them lift their masks, puke in a bucket and keep going!” Slipknot’s first manager remembers wild 90s Iowa shows

Sophia John reflects on the rabid gigs Slipknot played as they made themselves known in the mid-to-late 90s

Metal Hammer

"A true believer, sharp as a knife, heart of gold." A tribute to Michelle Kerr, the ass-kicking, passionate PR legend who helped shape modern metal as we know it

Michelle Kerr, PR for Slipknot, Machine Head, Slayer, Megadeth and many more, died on Saturday. She leaves behind a legacy as one of the metal industry's most beloved figureheads

Metal Hammer

"Slipknot used to have taser fights." Morgan Lander talks nu metal, pranks and the wildest tours Kittie have been on

Almost 30 years since Kittie were formed, Morgan Lander and co. are still as fired up and fierce as ever

Metal Hammer

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Metal Hammer

“There’s new artwork, there’s music that’s so punk rock from board tapes, there’s audio, visuals, everything”: Slipknot are planning a 25th anniversary reissue of their iconic debut album

Exclusive: Clown tells Metal Hammer about the upcoming reissue of Slipknot’s debut album

Metal Hammer

"It’s not The Beatles, it’s not Metallica, but it wasn’t ever supposed to be." Mushroomhead blew up with nu metal and were rivals with Slipknot, but never got the dues they deserve

Mushroomhead laid the groundwork as metal's ultimate masked maniacs in the mid-90s

Metal Hammer

“This is our way of saying welcome to the world”: Nu metal mystery men Swollen Teeth release new single Family, produced by Slipknot’s Sid Wilson and genre god Ross Robinson

Your favourite masked nu metal band (apart from that one and the other one) have returned with a new single, backed by two of their genre’s most influential figures

Metal Hammer

"Plenty of evidence to suggest a future exists beyond the shadow of their family tree." Vended's self-titled debut finally goes some way to shaking off that Slipknot tag

Griffin Taylor and Simon Crahan set out their vision for world domination with Vended's self-titled debut

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

MusicRadar

“People are gone. Craig’s out. Chris is out, Joey’s out, Paul’s out. The band is different... we’re not that close anymore”: Shawn Crahan on the current state of Slipknot

Shawn 'Clown' Crahan on the current state of Slipknot

Metal Hammer

“People are gone. Craig’s out. Chris is out, Joey’s out, Paul’s out. The band is different.” Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan admits the band aren’t as “close” now as they were 25 years ago

After lineup changes and the deaths of Joey Jordison and Paul Gray, Clown says Slipknot “will never be like” how it was in the early days

Metal Hammer

"We were nobodies, anonymous and faceless, but it felt like maybe we had a shot." The new issue of Metal Hammer is a bumper celebration of Slipknot’s debut album – and comes with an exclusive patch and charm

The latest issue of Metal Hammer magazine comes with two gifts and 28 pages of Slipknot

Guitar World

"I’ve been a Steve Vai fan since I was 15, and never thought I’d ever get the chance to do something amazing with him": Slipknot's Corey Taylor collaborates with his hero Steve Vai on new Billy Morrison track

Incite The Watch is lifted from The Morrison Project, which sees the Slipknot vocalist fulfil a lifelong dream of working with the virtuoso

Metal Hammer

"It's nobody's ***ing business, and he's our brother." Slipknot's Clown on why the band rarely discuss their much-missed former bandmate, Joey Jordison

Joey Jordison died in 2021 at the age of 46

Metal Hammer

“Do you want to see a fight or do you want to see a show?!” Watch Slipknot brawl with Mushroomhead fans during 1999 gig in resurfaced video

Slipknot got into an infamous brawl with fans of rival masked hellraisers Mushroomhead in 1999, and video of the carnage has finally made it to Youtube

Metal Hammer

Watch comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan annoy the hell out of an extreme metal band in new clip from TV show Rob And Romesh Vs

‘Rob And Romesh Vs Heavy Metal’, featuring Scottish metal stars Bleed From Within, is broadcast in the UK tonight on Sky Max

1 … 6 7 8 9

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.