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"I'm going to be a bit sad when we hit the stage and I'm facing the audience and not facing her because I’m having so much fun playing along with her." Geddy Lee reveals what it's like working with new Rush drummer Anika Nilles

Rush are preparing 38 songs for their Fifty Something tour, which begins next month

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"There are certain signature sounds that come directly from his playing – not from the equipment, but from him." New Rush drummer Anika Nilles reveals her thoughts on Neil Peart's playing

Anika Nilles will make her touring debut with Rush in Los Angeles in July

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"He’s got his gas mask on, he’s all taped up and he’s flying like a bird." Inside the chaos and carnage of Slipknot's legendary first UK show at the London Astoria

Slipknot's chaotic, infamous headline show at London's Astoria on December 13 1999 cemented their status as metal's next superstars

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“Just take it all away from me. That’s cool!” Every guitar solo on Slipknot’s debut album “got cut out”, claims Mick Thomson

“Any kind of technical playing was mocked and frowned upon”

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“My issues weren’t even with Limp Bizkit. They were with Fred.” Slipknot's Corey Taylor reflects on his 2000s feud with Fred Durst

Taylor looks back on one of his most famous beefs during an appearance on viral Youtube show Hot Ones

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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

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“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

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“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

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“In the future, we are going to be everywhere”: Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan wants to play the Olympics in 2028

Will Slipknot follow Gojira’s lead and play the 2028 Olympics in L.A.? “We’d love to do it,” says Clown.

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“My pursuit of work and all things ego was killing me. And nearly killed me.” Slipknot’s Corey Taylor explains 2024 breakdown

The Slipknot singer cancelled a North American tour in January, saying his “mental and physical health have been breaking down”

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This Viking folk version of Slipknot’s Wait And Bleed is the weirdest thing you’ll hear today

Nordic folk duo Nytt Land have released a shamanic take on Slipknot’s nu metal classic

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Watch Corey Taylor cover Slipknot, Stone Sour and Spongebob Squarepants (seriously) in this pro-shot video from Rock Am Ring 2024

The entirety of the Slipknot/Stone Sour star’s set at Rock Am Ring last month has been posted online

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The only reason Slipknot haven’t released Look Outside Your Window yet is because it’s “timeless”, says Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan

Slipknot’s “experimental” album was recorded in 2008 and still hasn’t seen the light of day

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Shawn Crahan says Slipknot will release new music “really soon”

The nu metal nine-piece confirmed they’d written a new song called Long May You Die last month

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Slipknot announce first two festival headline sets of 2025

The nu metal titans will appear at Germany’s Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park festivals next June

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“On the first day I was terrible, I didn’t like my performance”: Eloy Casagrande explains how he joined Slipknot, reveals band is writing new music

Slipknot’s new drummer has given his first in-depth interview since joining the nu metal nine-piece

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“Welcome to the new era”: Sleep Token have signed to major label RCA Records

After quickly selling out four arenas (and counting) on their upcoming UK tour, masked metal cult Sleep Token are now labelmates with Britney Spears and A$AP Rocky

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"He's jetlagged, he's dead, he wants to see a real ****ing circle pit!" Watch Bad Omens' Noah Sebastian join Bring Me The Horizon on stage for a ripping Antivist in Cardiff last night

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Listen to pulsating new Bring Me The Horizon single Kool-Aid

The latest preview of upcoming new album Post Human: Nex Gen has arrived

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Watch Bruce Dickinson sing Iron Maiden classic The Trooper with a covers band in an RAF hangar in Oxfordshire

The RAF squadron was hosting a farewell party for the C-130 Hercules aircraft last week when the Iron Maiden frontman made a surprise appearance on stage

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Steve Harris couldn't care less about Iron Maiden not being in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: "It doesn’t really represent anything"

Iron Maiden legend Steve Harris gives his thoughts on the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame controversy

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Iron Maiden legend Steve Harris reveals the achievement that means the most to him

For a man that's seen and done it all, this is the achievement that Steve Harris is proudest of

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Watch Bruce Dickinson try to dress up an unimpressed Steve Harris while Iron Maiden play Alexander The Great live on stage

Steve Harris wasn't having any of it when Bruce tried to stick a fancy dress helmet on him live in Prague

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Watch Bruce Dickinson lead a 15,000 crowd singing happy birthday to Nicko McBrain

The celebrations may have come a day early, but an arena full of Finnish Iron Maiden fans probably didn't care

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Iron Maiden kick off The Future Past tour: live debuts for five songs

Watch videos from the first show of Iron Maiden's The Future Past tour at the Arena Stožice in Ljubljana, Slovenia

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