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“Damn, that guy could shred. Can you imagine what that would have sounded like?” Wednesday 13 says the late Alexi Laiho once came close to joining him and Slipknot’s Joey Jordison in Murderdolls

The late Children of Bodom virtuoso nearly featured on the group’s second and final album

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Original Slipknot logo design revealed (and it's absolutely iconic)

Joey Jordison's original sketch is an instant classic.

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Family of late Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison launches Kickstarter campaign for unreleased Vimic album Open Your Omen

Joey Jordison's post-Slipknot band Vimic could finally see their debut album released thanks to family's crowdfunding effort

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"In Russia, when you see a bear, it's not ****ing funny." Alex Terrible is a bear-wrestling, bareknuckle fighting controversy magnet. He's also made Slaughter To Prevail unlikely metal icons

We head Stateside to speak to the man behind the mask as Russian deathcore crew Slaughter To Prevail prepare to unleash their new album

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Joey Jordison’s original Slipknot logo design revealed via social media

The late Slipknot drummer’s family have shared his initial sketch for the band’s legendary logo

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“You might laugh a little. The post office shipped your guitar to Jim Root”: This metal fan ordered a new guitar from Sweetwater – but it ended up with the Slipknot guitarist

Root randomly received a new Jackson that was destined for another player, after it went missing for a number of weeks

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“For some reason, the post office shipped your guitar to Jim Root of Slipknot”: Sweetwater mailed a metal fan's Jackson guitar to a metal legend

He received a flight case but no guitar

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Watch Slipknot's Corey Taylor perform a cover of Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club at a horror convention in Florida

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor played through an acoustic set of mostly covers during his appearance at this weekend's Spookala horror convention event in Florida, and performed tracks by pop superstar Chappell Roan, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails and more

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The best metal albums of 2025 (so far)

From Cradle of Filth to Whitechapel, Bloodywood to Spiritbox, these are some of the best metal releases of 2025 so far.

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"I had Nails, Oathbreaker, Power Trip, Billie Eilish and Labrinth on my writing playlist.” From being chummy with members of Slipknot to the worst show ever, here's what we learned in five minutes with Heriot's Debbie Gough

We have a quick catch up with the frontwoman of one of UK metal's most exciting bands

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Watch Eloy Casagrande batter the hell out of Slipknot’s ‘unplayable live’ Gematria (The Killing Name) in new 'drums only' video

Looks like the ‘new’ Slipknot drummer can’t help showing off just how much he’s loving his day job

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“Why didn't nu-metal bands do any solos? They couldn't do solos. Thank God that genre went away”: Dave Mustaine says nu-metal guitarists aversion to solos was down to a lack of lead talent – not stylistic choice

He believes nu-metal players had limited abilities, but could the movement’s shred-friendly second coming change his mind?

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“I sped everything up a little bit, just kicked them in the *** a little”: Dave Lombardo looks back on the day he drummed in Metallica

When Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was taken ill before Download festival 2004, Lombardo and Slipknot’s Joey Jordison filled in

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“Some of the guys in the band are like, ‘**** that, we’ll never play it!’” Watch Slipknot play one of their deepest cuts for the first time ever in Melbourne on Friday night

Metal's resident nine-piece went deep into the rarities bin for their set at Knotfest Melbourne last week

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“We got pelted with glass bottles and dead rabbits. We stood our ground”: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn’s wild tour stories of bust-ups, injuries and urine-soaked tobacco

When Slipknot’s Corey Taylor met Machine Head’s Robb Flynn

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

Meet the "deathcore Slipknot" Paleface Swiss, to Danish prog metallers Danefae, concept-driven Texan metalcore mob Cantervice and UK alt metallers Vower

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Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Bad Omens' Noah Sebastian have covered Kansas' Dust In The Wind and it's the most gorgeous song you'll hear all week

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor and Bad Omen's Noah Sebastian perform a stunning duet on the soundtrack for the upcoming wrestling film Queen Of The Ring

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“We jumped offstage and took our masks off and started swinging at people at the end of one song”: The wild story of Slipknot vs Mushroomhead, the masked band feud that lit up nu metal

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"People characterised both of our bands as being arrogant and cocky." How Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium helped revitalise metal in 2005

How Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine ushered in metal's next generation

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Here are all the winners in the 2024 Drumeo Awards. Did your favourite sticksmith make the cut?

The drum and percussion learning platform just announced its big winners from last year’s votes

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“We used to play that song faster…”: Slipknot’s Eloy Casagrande reveals the secret lessons he gave his Sepultura replacement

The drummer dishes the backstory on his Slipknot switch and what he really thinks of Greyson Nekrutman…

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They've toured with Slipknot, become unlikely ambassadors for Ukraine and smashed main stages at festivals. Now Jinjer have made their darkest, angriest album yet with Duél

Thought Jinjer might have used their growing popularity to write an album of big, catchy bangers? Nah. No chance

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“Two years ago, I was robbed in São Paulo. Two guys on motorcycles put a gun to my head”: Slipknot’s Eloy Casagrande explains the hidden meanings in his mask – including that gruesome bullet hole

The design also references Brazilian culture and Slipknot’s late founding drummer, Joey Jordison

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Watch Jay Weinberg drum Slipknot songs for the first time since parting ways with the nu metal icons in 2023

The now-Suicidal Tendencies drummer played two Slipknot songs during a recent clinic in Paris

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NAMM 2025: “A cornucopia of metal guitar specs” – ESP unveils LTD signature models for Slipknot's Mick Thomson, Whitechapel's Alex Wade, Rammstein's Richard Kruspe and more in epic launch

It's that magical time of the year when ESP drop dozens of new models, and once again the metal guitar specialist has gone big with artist collabs

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