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"I’m not indoctrinated anymore." How weird masks, wild rallies and big choruses helped President became one of metal's hottest new bands

From an overpacked tent debut at Download Festival to sell-out shows across the Atlantic, President are quickly becoming one of metal's biggest new bands

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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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"I could be talking to you from my Burger King castle. That's my biggest regret." The beloved hardcore band that turned down a big pile of money to wear chicken masks for a Slipknot-aping fast food advert

The Bronx kept their punk rock cred intact, while the Coq Roq commercial caught the eye of Slipknot's legal team

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"The masks are sanitised now." Slipknot's former drummer is selling memorabilia collected during his time with Bruce Springsteen, Against Me! and Suicidal Tendencies

A portion of Jay Weinberg's sales will benefit the MusiCares charity

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Watch Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale sing Black Sabbath covers at Geezer Butler and Paul Rodgers tribute show this week

Taylor sang Paranoid and Hale took on lead vocals for a version of Neon Knights, with Butler playing bass for both performances

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“The title was a kind of code word because the song was a preposterous, grandiose thing. Patton wrote the words a week after he joined the band”: The groundbreaking hit that saved Faith No More’s career – and saved the life of Slipknot’s Corey Taylor

The enigmatic lyrics continually allude to “it” – while never quite articulating what “it” actually is

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“I’ve got to credit Slipknot because they referenced Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse in interviews. I went out and bought all those records”: How Josh Middleton crushed his inner elitist to unleash a brutal Sylosis album for his teenage self

The New Flesh finds the UK metal stalwarts “regressing” to their teenage selves and Middleton taking a leaf out of Obituary and Deicide’s book with hench riffs you can hum, grooves you can move to

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“That’ll still smoke most rigs these days too, by the way”: Aaron Marshall of Intervals says the rig he played Blink-182 and Slipknot on as a teenager could more than hold its own today

Boss distortion, Fender amp, cheap Strat? Yeah, that checks out

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Slipknot, Papa Roach, The Offspring and more have been added to the Battlefield 6 videogame soundtrack

The online FPS is entering its second season, after debuting to much hype last October

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"The very first thought that came into my head was, ‘This band are going to get ripped off’." Corrupt police, crumbling dictatorships and amateur translators: The 80s metal classic that smashed borders and helped launch one of metal's most iconic labels

How a bunch of feral boys from Brazil helped reshape metal for decades to come

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"I was sitting near Judas Priest, Sharon and Ozzy, Joey from Slipknot was there...three surreal days." The cult Italian band that broke boundaries and became household names in metal thanks to this classic 00s album

Before this release, these gothic metallers weren't well known outside of their homeland. That quickly changed

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"There were no rules; ideas could come from anywhere: subtle drum loops, bits of organ or abstract guitar noise, even samples of frogs or crickets." Long-awaited Slipknot project Look Outside Your Window is finally being released

Look Outside Your Window was recorded while Slipknot were in the studio making 2008's All Hope Is Gone album

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"He figured we were gonna get knifed...some guys were swinging pool cues!" From Peaky Blinders bar fights to being Slipknot-endorsed, how four Swedish hillbillies became one of metal's most exciting bands

Endorsed by Slipknot, Machine Head and Trivium, Orbit Culture are one of extreme metal's hottest new bands

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"We invited our families along, not thinking how it would be for them. When we came off, my sister was crying." How a teen pop duo earned the respect of Slipknot and Rage Against The Machine by getting bottled off stage by furious rock fans

In 2000, one of the strangest festival bookings in history unsurprisingly ended in chaos

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"Calvin Klein asked us to do an advert. We were like, 'f-you, no way!' That would have been huge." From touring with Slipknot to turning down iconic fashion designers, the story behind Kittie's classic nu metal anthem, Brackish

Kittie's breakthrough single made them accidental trailblazers in a nu metal scene dominated by men

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“A professor in my pocket who only wants to do what I ask it”: Slipknot’s Shawn Crahan says he’s been using AI “my whole life”

He says it’s cheaper than employing a human

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“It is a professor in my pocket who only wants to do what I ask it”: Slipknot’s Clown defends AI, breaking rank from other high-profile metal musicians

The Nine’s co-founder and percussionist asks, “What’s the difference between me pulling out my pocket producer… or me trying to get a famous producer that might not even work with me and could potentially cost me $150,000?”

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“We weren’t scared of grunge. We would see Dave Grohl wearing Sepultura t-shirts”: It was built on death metal – until three iconic bands helped turn this underground record company into the most influential metal label of the 90s

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"It was the perfect tragedy. Heavy metal albums found in their rooms, antisocial behaviour." How Lemmy, Corey Taylor, Henry Rollins and the metal community united to save three teenagers at the heart of a murder case that shocked America

The story of the West Memphis Three captured the attention of the metal world - and some of its biggest artists took action

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Slipknot tore Europe a new one during their tour this summer – this pro-shot footage from a Spanish festival proves it

The nine-piece played a particularly destructive show at Resurrection Fest in Viveiro, Spain in June

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“We’d jump off roofs or off bridges into water, knock the wind out of ourselves and almost die. We lived very aggressively because that’s who we were”: The story of Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. – the secret debut album that started Slipknot’s ascent

Before Corey Taylor and before the nu metal takeover, Slipknot launched their career with a DIY release that put the Des Moines scene on notice

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"What will his legacy be? His guitar playing. He could bend just one note and tell a whole story. I can hear David Gilmour in his playing." Slipknot member Alessandro ‘V-Man’ Venturella pays tribute to Mastodon guitarist and his dear friend, Brent Hinds

V-Man once worked as Brent Hinds' guitar tech and became lifelong bros with the Mastodon man

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“I wanted it to be a workhorse I could bash around, beat up, hit with metal pipes and get thrown into kegs without breaking in half”: The making of Jim Root’s Telecaster, the guitar that brought Fender into the modern age

Some metal players prefer the traditional high-performance brands. Others favor medieval shapes. Not Root. The Slipknot guitarist wanted something old-school, classy… indestructible

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Slipknot-endorsed Mapuche metal champions Mawiza have recorded a live session in Gojira’s studio – and you really need to watch it

Hailing from Santiago, Chile, the four-piece are flying the flag for South America’s Indigenous Mapuche people

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Slipknot to release 'lost' album Look Outside Your Window in 2026

Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan has dropped a huge hint the heavy metal outfit are set to release their delayed "lost" album Look Outside Your Window, which they recorded in 2008, next year.

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