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Slipknot’s Sid Wilson details gruesome injuries from bonfire explosion: ‘My face is basically melted’

DJ and keyboardist was hospitalized after he was caught in a bonfire explosion on his farm in Iowa

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Sleep Token, Bring Me The Horizon, Jinjer, more added to 2025 Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park lineups

Sleep Token, Bring Me The Horizon, Jinjer, Powerwolf and others will join Slipknot in Nürburg and Nuremberg from June 6 to 8

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"I have a lot of compassion for them...they’ve lost good people." What Mushroomhead think of fellow masked metallers Slipknot now

The beef between Slipknot and Mushroomhead was legendary in the nu metal era, but Steve 'Skinny' Felton says it was exaggerated by the media

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Slipknot’s Sid Wilson shares gory close-up of injuries after bonfire ‘explosion’

Musician said he was back home with his girlfriend, Kelly Osbourne, and their son, after receiving medical treatment for his injuries

The Independent UK

“My eyebrows are singed, my mouth is blistered, my arms are pretty bad”: Slipknot’s Sid Wilson is hospitalised with “serious burns” following farming accident

Slipknot DJ Sid Wilson reveals he has suffered burns to his face and arms after an explosion, assures fans that he’ll still play upcoming shows

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Slipknot’s Sid Wilson in hospital with ‘serious burns’ as girlfriend Kelly Osbourne issues warning

Musician said he was ‘going to be OK’ but had some serious burns to his face and arms

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“When you first pick up a Tele or a Jazzmaster, you’re not thinking about neoclassical scales or shredding. But the more you play them, it’s like, ‘Wow! They kinda rip!’” Jim Root on upsetting metalheads and Fender purists, and his amp modeling conversion

The Slipknot guitarist’s come to Jesus moment with the Quad Cortex doesn’t mean he’s selling his Orange amps just yet. He just likes to keep his options open. You might even see him shred on a Gretsch…

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“I was falling in a black hole. It was totally surreal.” Sepultura singer was “in shock” when Eloy Casagrande left to join Slipknot

Casagrande quit Sepultura less than a month before the Brazilian band started their farewell tour

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Not just No Life and Only One… 6 more rare songs Slipknot should play again

Slipknot are dishing out the deep cuts on their 25th anniversary tour. Here are six more long-unplayed fan-favourites we’d love to hear again.

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“Nothing you are about to hear tonight was written after 1999!” Watch Slipknot kick off their anniversary tour by playing nothing but old school cuts - including two songs not played in almost 25 years

Old school boiler suits and songs from the debut album era only?! This was a very special Slipknot show

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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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“I wouldn’t be able to play the technical stuff while wearing the mask. I’ve almost passed out a few times”: Slipknot’s original bassist Paul Gray on holding the middle ground in metal’s most extreme band

Slipknot are one of the most visually arresting bands still working today – but the late Paul Gray’s role was decidedly different

Guitar World

“We’re young, hungry, and we want to punch people in the balls”: Nu metal up-and-comers Vended announce debut album and US headline tour

As Vended announce their self-titled debut, read our exclusive interview with singer Griffin Taylor and drummer Simon Crahan

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“Fender sent me a Jazzmaster and I didn’t play it. I thought it was awkward-looking”: Jim Root helped Fender create the most radical Jazzmaster ever – but he didn’t like the offset design at first

The Slipknot guitarist famously reconfigured the popular indie stalwart for heavy metal purposes, but it took him quite some time before he fell in love with the Jazzmaster in the first place

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“I have a fantastic therapist who helps me”: Jay Weinberg is in counselling to “process” Slipknot exit

“It’s important for me to do the right work of processing these events,” the now-Suicidal Tendencies drummer says of his Slipknot stint

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Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler declares love for nu metal, Slipknot and Fear Factory: “It was amazing to see what new bands were coming out”

The legendary bassist thought “it was great” how diverse metal sounded in the mid-to-late 1990s

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"Splicing together the old and new in a way that is heavy, honest, infectious and just the right mix of chaotic and creepy." Graphic Nature turn Korn, Deftones and Slipknot influences into something fresh on Who Are You When No One Is Watching?

Graphic Nature kicked doors down with their nu metalcore debut in 2022. Now they're ready to take on the mainstream

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Listen to Wargasm's crushing new single 70% Dead, featuring Slipknot legend Corey Taylor

Wargasm have teamed up with a metal icon for this ripping new single

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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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“I have a really, really spiritual feeling about this next one”: Slipknot’s Shaun Crahan on the band’s next album

Slipknot's Shaun Crahan talks about the band's next album

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"When he sees all his uncles backstage in the masks, he loves it, he’s not scared": Kelly Osbourne's 1-year-old son finds Sid Wilson's Slipknot mask "so hilarious"

In the most adorable metal news you'll hear today, Kelly Osbourne and Sid Wilson's baby has no fear of Slipknot...but actually isn't so keen on Father Christmas

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Shawn 'Clown' Crahan believes Slipknot's next album will be "widely accepted" by fans, has "a really, really spiritual feeling" about it

Slipknot percussionist Clown shares his excitement for the band's upcoming releases

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Watch video for new Suicidal Tendencies single Nós Somos Família featuring former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg

Nós Somos Família is the first Suicidal Tendencies track to feature ex-Slipknot man Jay Weinberg

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"I felt like I'd been cleansed." Comedian Frank Skinner says seeing this legendary metal guitarist was "like a fabulous meditative experience"

Birmingham comedian Frank Skinner shares how seeing a legendary guitarist helped him forget life's problems - and the time he upset Eric Clapton

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“Deathcore? None of those bands can do what we do”: Suicide Silence had a point to prove to the haters, and with No Time To Bleed they rammed it home

Suicide Silence’s crushing second album, No Time To Bleed, was released on June 30, 2009

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