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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 3 - Caught on Camera

Long-delayed Slipknot project Look Outside Your Window will finally drop in 2026, Shawn “Clown” Crahan promises

The “experimental”, “melodic” album was recorded in 2008 and has been delayed again and again and again over the last seven years

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Corey Taylor’s son Griffin remembers the first time he saw his dad in his Slipknot mask: “Who the **** is this guy?!”

The future Vended frontman thought his father looked like a cross between a goldfish and a potato

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"They talk about that album in the same way I talk about Ziggy Stardust...and it was the first time a Slipknot member had unmasked!" How a metal icon embraced horror and glam rock to make one of the most surprising side projects ever

When it was revealed that one of Slipknot's most beloved members had a new project on the go, no one could have predicted how it'd end up sounding

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Vote: who are the Big 4 in all of metal?

Thrash's Big 4 has been settled for decades, but what if we push it out to the whole genre? Who gets in?

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Rob Zombie, Lamb Of God and Svalbard are among this week's best new metal songs. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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“I get into arguments with fans all the time about this. Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, it’s just a leftover Stone Sour song.’ No, I wrote that for Slipknot!” How Slipknot made the greatest metal ballad of the 21st century

Inspired by Corey Taylor’s divorce and redefined after the death of Paul Gray, Snuff shows The Nine at their most beautifully vulnerable

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Slipknot sell majority stake of back catalogue to global investment firm

Slipknot have confirmed they have sold a majority stake of their back catalogue to a global investment firm, who are "honoured" to help "preserve and amplify" the Wait and Bleed hitmakers' work for "decades and generations to come".

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"I still have so much music in my heart." The frontman of one of nu metal's coolest bands has been found living on the streets - and fans are desperate to help him

Cameron Heacock, whose band American Head Charge toured with Slipknot and Rammstein and worked with Rick Rubin, says he has been homeless for years

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Here's who I'd put on my Mount Rushmore of nu metal (three spots were easy, one was excruciatingly hard)

Nu metal has produced some of heavy music's biggest bands - and here are the four artists I'd hold up as the genre's Big 4

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“The record label called to tell me that we were selling albums like crazy. We were playing just before Slipknot and Disturbed at festivals”: As Guitar Hero turns 20, DragonForce’s Herman Li recalls how the game turned them into a household name

DragonForce’s Through the Fire and Flames was included in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and became a resounding success – so much so that it threatened to overshadow the rest of the band’s repertoire

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“When the first riff came together, we locked in and played it for 100 hours.” How a song about a big angry whale helped four Southern misfits hang with Slipknot and Slayer - and become 21st century metal trailblazers

Making a snarling concept piece about Moby-Dick doesn’t sound like a move for mainstream appeal, but that’s exactly what Mastodon found with the lead single of 2004 masterstroke Leviathan

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“There’s no special effects – there were kids falling through ceilings, flying through glass, jumping off roofs”: From kicking booze to an anarchic video shoot, the story of Slipknot’s biggest single, Duality

Slipknot were one of the biggest names of the nu metal era – then the lead single from their third album made them immortal

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“60 years from now, I can look back and go, ‘I did a song with the dude from Slipknot! And it was good!’”: What it’s like collaborating with Corey Taylor, according to Ho99o9’s Yeti Bones

The grime-punk duo joined forces with Slipknot’s frontman for their song Bite My Face in 2022

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What we listen to: How the CW team stay motivated on their indoor trainers

From music to bakery programs, here's what CW staffers tune into when training indoors

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When I was 14, I thought Limp Bizkit were the coolest band in the world. At 38, I often still do

Love or hate them, you couldn't ignore them. Luckily, I loved them - and I still do

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Slipknot are suing anonymous owner of the slipknot.com domain name

The metal giants have been using slipknot1.com for more than 20 years as someone else owns the preferred web address

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"It's my 'I love you' to Joey." The story of Joey Jordison's post-Slipknot bands Vimic and Sinsaenum

Four years on from the passing of Joey Jordison, two of his bands are returning to active duty: but in very different ways

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"We’ve decided not to count drummers anymore, it got depressing when we got to two figures." An audience with Spinal Tap legend David St. Hubbins

Spinal Tap singer/guitarist David St. Hubbins on beefing with Metallica, hanging with Ronnie James Dio and why they could never be Slipknot

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"We are cooking." New Slipknot music is on the way, according to the band's drummer Eloy Casagrande

A follow-up to 2022's The End, So Far could be just around the corner

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Watch unmasked Slipknot in soundcheck ahead of year 2000 show in South Dakota

Rare footage of unmasked Slipknot at the peak of their early powers has found its way onto the internet

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Metal’s hardest-working band just played the biggest show of their lives – naturally, they pulled out all the stops

Bleed From Within hit a new apex at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum, where they were backed up by special guests, bagpipe players and an uber-passionate audience

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"We got on with Slipknot like a house on fire. We were like their naughty little brothers!" The story of the underground metal band helped by Charli XCX's future manager that almost became a household name

For just a moment, it looked like the UK might have had an answer to Slipknot from the most unlikely of places

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The house that Slipknot trashed in their most infamous music video is going to auction

Bidding on a $300,000 West Des Moines property that the masked agitators tore up in 2004 will begin next week

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The long lost album from Joey Jordison's post-Slipknot project Vimic is finally here. But does it live up to his legacy?

Almost a decade since Vimic first released music, their debut album Open Your Omen is finally here

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“Huge, tattooed men were crying”: Joey Jordison’s sisters reveal how they helped one of the late Slipknot drummer’s unreleased albums see the light of day

The debut album by Joey Jordison’s post-Slipknot band Vimic will finally be released in October, four years after his death

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