Slipknot announce 2027 stadium tour with Marilyn Manson as support act They will perform shows across the UK, US and South America as part of their sic(est) Stadium Tour. Evening Standard · Sep 28
Slipknot release first new single since Sid Wilson exit Slipknot have unveiled the haunting music video for their latest track Arsenal. BANG Premier · Sep 10
"I don't have any regrets." Original Slipknot singer is fine not to be the voice that made the band huge Anders Colsefni sang on Slipknot's first release –and knew he couldn't have taken the band to widespread success Metal Hammer · Aug 31
Slipknot guitarist issues cryptic plea amid reports of Sid Wilson’s firing Rumors are swirling that the heavy metal band’s DJ and keyboardist has been ‘permanently’ let go The Independent UK · Aug 1
"I sometimes just want to be the guy eating a hamburger without someone asking: 'Where's your nose chain and your leather trousers?'" Rachel Bolan on the need for speed, his solo debut, Skid Row's new singer, digging punk and Oasis Skid Row bassist and solo artist Rachel Bolan's debut solo album Gargoyle Of The Garden State is out now Louder · Jul 29
“The first Slipknot album is all chaos; the Stone Sour album is a baring of the soul”: Corey Taylor reveals the 10 albums that changed his life The Great Big Mouth on his best records, Les Misérables and how great sex made him a Depeche Mode fan Metal Hammer · Jul 28
“It’s like something genius: a treasure lost and found”: The 18-year-long story behind Slipknot’s Radiohead-inspired detour, Look Outside Your Window Metal’s leading nine-piece recorded an experimental side-project during 2008’s All Hope Is Gone sessions. It didn’t come out until this year. Metal Hammer · Jul 23
“The most impressive Motionless In White album so far”: Pennsylvania’s metalcore stars finally find their identity on Decades More than 20 years since starting, Chris Cerulli and co. escape the shadow of their influences and revel in dark humour Metal Hammer · Jul 21
"I've never been a religious person. But letting go of that, of the incredible weight of ego, has helped me listen." Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor reveals why he says a prayer before going on stage The Slipknot vocalist was a guest on the Mythical Kitchen podcast Metal Hammer · Jul 7
“The label says, ‘We need five more Wait and Bleeds.’ I was like, ‘We're really not that band. You sell our records and we'll make them, okay?’”: Mick Thomson reflects on Slipknot's Wait and Bleed, label pressures – and sticking to their own guns In a 2014 GW interview, Thomson revealed his disdain for melodic choruses, and how he fought hard for the band to maintain their artistic integrity post-Wait and Bleed Guitar World · Jun 29
“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 Metal Hammer · Jun 29
Slipknot side-project Look Outside Your Window to get wider vinyl and CD release next month No word on whether or not it’ll hit streaming services, though Metal Hammer · May 19
The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear right now Motionless In White team up with Corey Taylor, Cancer Bats mark 20 years and nu gen star Mimi Barks announces her next release in this week's best new metal songs Metal Hammer · May 11
Hear Slipknot’s Corey Taylor rage against social media on new Motionless In White single Playing God: “The internet has gotten worse and worse” The furious track is taken from the metalcore quintet’s upcoming album Decades Metal Hammer · May 6
Metal Hammer · May 6 “I got punched in the face and I punched back, and that’s crazy?” Machine Gun Kelly remembers his feud with Slipknot’s Corey Taylor a little differently to the rest of us The rapper-turned-rocker insists he merely “punched back” at the metal star, even though the spat stemmed from comments he made lambasting the heavy music scene
Metal Hammer · Apr 23 "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...
Metal Hammer · Apr 16 “I told her to write a poem about batteries that are dying that cannot be recharged”: Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan explains how Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia ended up on Look Outside Your Window Scabbia, who was in a relationship with ’Knot guitarist Jim Root from 2004 to 2017, lends her voice to two songs on the long-delayed project
Metal Hammer · Apr 15 “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
Metal Hammer · Apr 14 "The vibe is definitely Slipknot except no screams." Slipknot fan compares Look Outside Your Window album to Pink Floyd after getting early listen, claims Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia appears Look Outside Your Window, a long-shelved project recorded in 2008, is due to come out on Record Store Day, April 18
Metal Hammer · Apr 8 "Slipknot is a big scary monster and we're losing control of it." How Slipknot's angriest and sweariest song helped the metal icons land the heaviest number one album in history As soon as people heard that crushing first song on Iowa, they knew we weren't getting a soft, sell-out second album
Metal Hammer · Mar 25 "He’s a judge! What do I say? I’m 26, I don’t know **** about the legal system!" How a fake murder story, a lawsuit and one extremely weird phone call got this classic Slipknot song removed from the world and hidden for a decade Fans were left confused when this early Slipknot favourite suddenly disappeared from their debut album
Metal Hammer · Mar 4 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
MusicRadar · Mar 1 “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
Metal Hammer · Feb 18 "People falling on top of each other, beer flying everywhere, somebody jumped off the balcony. I get kicked, I fall to the ground, someone picks me up. It was beautiful chaos." Ho99o9 vocalist Yeti Bones picks the albums that changed his life From the "black metal version of hip hop", to original shock rocker Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sepultura and the Mr. Bungle track that "gets him horny" these are Yeti Bones' all-time favourites
Metal Hammer · Feb 4 "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