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HISTORICAL FACTS: Shawn crahan - Caught on Camera

“I have a skipping heart and I got to get a surgery”: Slipknot’s Shawn Crahan speaks about his health problems and how he sometimes feels like he’s “dying”

Percussionist turned down the idea of having a pacemaker

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"I’llgo from on, to just straight up I feel likeI’mdying." Slipknot's Shawn 'Clown' Crahan needs heart surgery

Slipknot percussionist Clown needs surgery after discovering his heartbeat skips

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"We didn’t talk to each other for three months." Haunted houses, fallouts and a drunken singer: inside Slipknot's experimental masterpiece, Vol. 3

After the phenomenal success of Iowa, Slipknot took a break. But where there had once been unity, there was now conflict. Yet they produced something that defied any expectations...

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“Joey was the best that ever did it. The greatest drummers would come to our shows to watch this guy play”: Slipknot DJ Sid Wilson pays tribute to his late former bandmate Joey Jordison

Slipknot’s founding drummer departed the band in 2013, before dying in July 2021 aged 46

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"I put the mask on and I immediately understood what it was like to disappear. I was gone and the real me had just shown up." How Slipknot's Clown was born in a shopping mall in the mid '80s

Shawn Crahan was just another anonymous American teenager until he found Clown

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"We are missing one of our brothers." Watch Slipknot play to a massive crowd headlining Rock Am Ring festival without founding member Shawn Crahan

Watch pro-shot footage of Slipknot's headline performance for 90,000 maggots in Germany

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"I was in the hallway with Slipknot and I got screamed at." Vended might have big links to heavy metal royalty, but that doesn't mean they're getting an easy ride

Vended feature two spawns of Slipknot, but they're attempting to build their own legacy through their own terms. We head to LA to find out more

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“I keep telling Clown that I’m just gonna throw it up on Youtube”: Slipknot guitarist Jim Root often threatens to leak long-delayed album Look Outside Your Window

Sick of waiting for Slipknot’s atmospheric rock album to come out? So is guitarist Jim Root!

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“It just dropped down and my skin fell down with it. People would vomit when they saw it”: Slipknot’s Shawn Crahan on his ‘worst’ injury

He lost 25% of his arm from the resulting surgery

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"I have to either be in this band or I have to destroy it." A chaotic interview with Slipknot from 1999

In 1999 Metal Hammer flew out to Memphis to meet Slipknot for the first time. A near-miss with SWAT teams, legions of fans and an insane show later, we knew they'd change the world

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"We were nobodies but in that moment, it felt like we had a shot." How Slipknot overcame jealousy, substance abuse and trauma to become metal's most important band

25 years on from their self-titled debut, Slipknot look back at the years that helped them define 21st Century metal

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A new range of Slipknot Funko Pop! Vinyl figures are being released - and it includes recently ejected drummer Jay Weinberg

Six new Slipknot Funko Pop! figures are coming this spring, with a 4-inch tall 'Jay Weinberg' among the collection

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"He was one of the best drummers the metal world has ever seen." The wild life, incredible career and tragic end of Slipknot legend, Joey Jordison

On July 26, 2021, the metal world lost Slipknot icon Joey Jordison. This is the story of his life and legacy, as told by those who knew him best

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