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From 'The Pale Ones' to, erm, 'Gwaaarrrgghhlllgh': 10 legendary metal bands that used to have incredibly goofy names

Before Slipknot, Black Sabbath and Linkin Park became stars, they had names that no one would have ever taken seriously

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10 nu metal bands who should have been massive

The nu metal explosion took heavy music into the mainstream like never before, but some of its most promising names sadly fell by the wayside

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"When it came out, I was a raging alcoholic prick...I wasn't paying attention to the songs": Corey Taylor on why he now loves Metallica's St. Anger

Slipknot's Corey Taylor explains how he went from hating Metallica's St. Anger to being a fan

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“Our identities are unimportant.” Unlike Slipknot or Ghost, no one seems to want to know who's behind the mask in Sleep Token. From TikTok infamy to their strange sex appeal, here’s why

Metal has a long history with mysterious masked bands. Sleep Token fans, however, have no interest in peeking behind the mask

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Slipknot sound like a deranged and destructive organism on the 77-minute sensory blitzkrieg of Live At MSG

Slipknot's historic 2009 Madison Square Garden show, now available for the first time on vinyl

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10 hard rock and heavy metal music videos that got banned for the dumbest reasons

Classic songs by Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Slipknot have all been taken off the airwaves with the most frivolous excuses

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“We were going to take the world by any means necessary”: How Slipknot’s Wait And Bleed punished the mainstream and became the essential nu metal song

Wait And Bleed was just a demo in dire need of a chorus in 1998. One year later, it was a cornerstone of Slipknot’s stunning debut album and on track to become a megahit.

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"Joey got to take the mask off and be a different person": how The Exorcist, quoting Airplane! and Joey Jordison's mum turned Wednesday 13 from Hot Topic clerk to glam punk star

Joey Jordison had already found acclaim with Slipknot, but horrorcore glam-punks Murderdolls let him flex an entirely different side to his music

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Corey Taylor thinks one of Slipknot's best-loved anthems is their most over-rated song, and says the fact that he still sings it "tells you how much of a psycho I am"

Corey Taylor believes that the single which Metal Hammer readers voted Slipknot's greatest ever song is the most over-rated song in their catalogue

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"I promise you this, as long as you are here, I will always be here for you": Watch Slipknot's Corey Taylor break down in tears during an emotional speech to fans

At a recent event to celebrate the release of his new solo album CMF2, Corey Taylor gets emotional during a touching, heartfelt speech about mental health

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"The next day I started putting signs up in guitar places." Corey Taylor reveals the band that inspired him to pursue a career in music - and how it came during his darkest moment

He's become a metal icon with Slipknot and Stone Sour - but it was a random encounter involving some alt metal heroes that set him on the path to greatness

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Corey Taylor: "For eight years I was married to the wrong woman. It was a very toxic relationship and it ate a part of me that I don't know if I'll ever get back"

Corey Taylor discusses the "real life sh*t" that inspires his solo songwriting, from PTSD and depression to his "toxic" second marriage

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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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10 metal riffs that look easy but are incredibly difficult to play

From Metallica to Slipknot, Sylosis frontman and guitar virtuoso Josh Middleton picks 10 heavy riffs that are far harder than they sound

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Bring Me The Horizon and Architects finally headlining festivals shows that metal is ready for the next generation to take over

Purists may not adore the idea, but major rock and metal festivals will have to continue to adapt and expand their remits to flourish in the future

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"It’s so dope and so different... it really is the long-lost album": Corey Taylor says Slipknot's Look Outside Your Window album will finally be released in 2024, and admits that he's kinda to blame for the delay

On the shelf for 15 years, Slipknot's semi-mythical Look Outside Your Window album is coming out next year, says Corey Taylor

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Corey Taylor: It terrifies me that conspiracy theories are the norm

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor pulls no punches in rant about conspiracy theorists

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10 classic metal songs we can't believe don't get played live

Iron Maiden's only number 1 single, an AC/DC classic and title-tracks aplenty - we're amazed these songs haven't been played more

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Why does no one want to unmask Sleep Token?

When Ghost and Slipknot got big, their fans couldn’t unmask them quickly enough. So why do none of Sleep Token’s followers want to see the man behind Vessel?

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Corey Taylor: "There are a lot of people in Iowa that are very ashamed of the fact that Slipknot comes from there"

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor explains why his band is disliked in their home state of Iowa, says that people who live there are unfriendly and still "so mad" about their success

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10 times nu metal gloriously gatecrashed mainstream TV

From Slipknot smashing TFI Friday to bits to Evanescence beefing with 50 Cent at the Grammys, the 2000s had it all

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“Even if you don’t like metal, you’d like a Slipknot concert”: Is Margot Robbie the most metal actor in Hollywood?

As Barbie barrels past a billion dollars at the box office, we celebrate its star’s love for Metallica and Bullet For My Valentine – and the fact she isn’t shy about it

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Watch this rare footage of Slipknot playing a 1999 hometown show and see why The Nine got so huge so fast

A month before releasing their iconic debut album, Slipknot played a hometown show in Des Moines, Iowa, and levelled the place

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Watch Corey Taylor walk through the Blood Prison experience at the "notoriously haunted" Ohio State Reformatory

Slipknot's Corey Taylor gets spooked by ghouls and ghosts with two fans in the Ohio State Reformatory at this year's Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival

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10 metalheads in movies and TV that break all the cliches

Hollywood likes to portray metalheads as either bullies or dimwits. These 10 movie and TV characters smash all the stereotypes.

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