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“Nick Zinner was like, ‘They gave me this pedal that’s not out yet.’ It was the original POG. That was the first time I ever heard something like that”: From Blood Brothers to Evil Island’s horror-surf, the wild ride of hardcore hero Cody Votolato

Evil Island is a vampire-obsessed, POG-abusing new project from hardcore scene survivors

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“This is a new sound, you’re going to see some freaky-looking dudes going nuts onstage!’” How Korn launched nu metal – and got in legal hot water – with their incendiary debut single Blind

When Jonathan Davis brought Blind from an old band to Korn, it kick-started a genre, not to mention a bit of controversy

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Slipknot’s producer explains why he recorded Iowa with a broken back: “It put a very next-level diligence into those guys”

Ross Robinson took just one day off after getting seriously injured in a motocross accident

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Ross Robinson reveals that Slipknot were talking about splitting up just before they made Iowa: “We’re just not getting along. We’re gonna break up.”

Forget Sid Wilson – things have always been dramatic in the world of Slipknot

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"English people don't really want to feel that much." The curious tale of Robert Smith's least favourite Cure album, despite him telling the world "anyone who doesn't like this just doesn't like the Cure"

"More passion went into the making of this record than all the others combined"

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"We didn’t always know what we were doing on this record, and I think that’s the beauty of it." Jonathan Davis and Munky share the stories behind every song on Korn's game-changing debut album

A track by track breakdown of Korn's legendary 1994 debut album, by the men who wrote it

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“We were supposed to sign our contract, but we had so much champagne celebrating that we forgot”: The story of Human Waste Project, the lost nu metal band who should have been huge

Fronted by the magnetic Aimee Echo, the four-piece had a major record deal and were close friends with Korn. But their career was sadly short-lived.

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“I didn’t expect him to get busted in that bathroom. But his misfortune actually helped us. We couldn’t have asked for more of a buzz!”: How an unexpected arrest accidentally gave Limp Bizkit their big break

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“Everyone was out of their minds. Alcoholic drug addicts. I just remember all the excess”: In a haze of substance use and record label conflicts, Korn made the defining anthem of nu metal’s heyday

The chaotic story of Freak On A Leash, in singer Jonathan Davis’ own words

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“In the studio I was freaking out and bawling. I had no idea Ross Robinson was getting it all on tape until I came back a couple of days later and he said, ‘Listen to this...’”: Korn break down their iconic debut album track by track

Korn’s self-titled 1994 debut album changed the face of metal, even if they didn’t know it at the time

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“We blew this whole scene open, I don’t care what anybody says. We did all the work, and now all these other bands are popping up”: How Korn changed up their sound and left the copycats behind with Follow The Leader

Korn’s 1998 album Follow The Leader was the sound of the nu metal pioneers pulling away from the competition

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"A cocktail of pure fire and creativity." How Limp Bizkit went from nu metal's whipping boys to a beloved cultural force (again)

Limp Bizkit have proven time and again they can roll with the punches

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"Our band’s chemistry was really coming together. This whole new world opened up to us and we were off drugs. And then Jeremy died": The anarchic early years of one of rock's most enigmatic groups, The Mars Volta

An interview with The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala

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“If it wasn’t working, I could see the point of changing. But we were more successful than ever. It was incomprehensible”: The tumultuous story of Sepultura’s Roots album and their bitter split

How Sepultura made their most important album – and how it tore them apart

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“It was a reaction to a life of being bullied and also a celebration of fun. A lot of the metal world didn’t understand that”: How Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst became nu metal’s biggest star – and lived to tell the tale

With his red cap and hip hop swagger, Fred Durst was the biggest and most divisive star of the nu metal era. But that’s only half the story

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“Whenever we made a mistake, Ross Robinson would be happy, because we’d be breaking boundaries”: Sepultura name the five songs which define their career

Ahead of their impending retirement, Derrick Green and Andreas Kisser explain which songs have most shaped Sepultura’s career

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“I started playing $150 Ibanez guitars because onstage I would take damage… Clown used to use metal bars. We were very unsafe”: Mick Thomson reflects on 25 years of Slipknot’s incendiary debut – and what it was like to see his solos erased

If Slipknot's debut remains a true face-ripper all these years later maybe it is because they brought the chaos of the stage show into the studio. Thomson can remember it vividly, the gear, the danger, the risk to his guitars from stray iron pipes, and he wouldn't have it any…

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"I was freaking out and bawling in the studio." Korn's classic debut album at 30: the weirdness, the trauma and the birth of nu metal

On October 11 1994, five misfits from Bakersfield, California would release an album that would change metal forever

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Touche Amore team up with Ross Robinson to make post-hardcore perfection on Spiral In A Straight Line

The Los Angeles band's mix of angst and anthems prove to be as effective - and emotionally resonant - as ever

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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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“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

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“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

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"I’d waited my whole life to come to Europe." Shawn 'Clown' Crahan on the five shows that built Slipknot

One legendary UK show in particularly holds especially fond memories for the band

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“They had the potential to be one of their era’s defining bands”: How rising nu metal stars Human Waste Project suddenly disappeared

Led by body-piercer turned magnetic vocalist Aimee Echo, Human Waste Project were one of the most promising bands of the nu metal takeover. Then they split out of nowhere. This is what happened.

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“As a band you can be just awful and still have lots of success. But they were truly great.” The tragic story of Snot, the best lost band in nu metal history

Snot were set to be the next Faith No More. But then the death of magnetic frontman Lynn Strait cut their ascent heartbreakingly short.

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