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Slipknot's Clown: "We probably have several albums in us right now. It’s looking great."

Slipknot percussionist Shawn Crahan talks new music, debut album anniversary tour and backstage donkeys

Metal Hammer

Watch Sid WIlson and Kelly Osbourne's son Sidney in adorable backstage moment with masked-up Slipknot

Little Sidney Wilson joins Slipknot's backstage bonding ritual – and it's the cutest thing you'll see today

Metal Hammer

Slipknot review – metal mammoths deliver exhilarating sonic brutality

Heads bang, moshpits burst into life and riffs eviscerate every corner of the room as the band tear through their debut album 1999 in a visceral sensory haze

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“People have tried to copy it and rip it off, but no one has come close. No one will ever beat it”: The cult metal album Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison said was as good as Reign In Blood

High praise indeed from the late Slipknot drummer

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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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Glasgow's Hydro to use new security measures after fans left livid over queues

Glasgow's OVO Hydro will be using new security measures just a week after fans were left furious over "chaotic" long queues.

The National (Scotland)

The 10 best metalcore albums of 2024

From UK greats Bring Me The Horizon and While She Sleeps to young innovators like Heriot and Scene Queen, metalcore has had a hell of a year

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“Just got a hernia singing with a metal band in Austria”: Talk show host extraordinaire Conan O’Brien fronted an extreme metal band last night

He welcomed Slipknot, Lamb Of God and more onto The Tonight Show – now, Conan O’Brien has followed in their footsteps and played with a metal band

Metal Hammer

Slipknot, Ghost, Nightwish, Gojira and more star in Metal Hammer's blockbuster end of year issue, which comes with an Iron Maiden Powerslave patch, a Nightwish notebook and a 2025 heavy metal calendar

The new issue of Metal Hammer is our biggest of the year and it's on sale now!

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The busiest band in metal? One day before Slipknot support tour, Bleed From Within announce next album Zenith, release single In Place Of Your Halo

The prolific aggressors have also remixed recent track Hands Of Sin, now featuring Sylosis frontman Josh Middleton

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Slipknot announce shows in Australia and New Zealand

The Nine will play sideshows in Adelaide and Auckland in addition to already-announced Knotfest dates

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Bagpipes and a metal breakdown?! It happened this weekend, when Bleed From Within debuted unreleased song In Place Of Your Halo live

The muscular track will come out later this week as the firebrands prepare to tour Europe with Slipknot

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“It worries the hell out of me. We’ve been outcasts for our whole career. If what we do becomes some sort of trend, will we die with it?”: How Dream Theater became the kings of progressive metal – and stayed there

In 2009, Dream Theater released Black Clouds & Silver Linings – an album the prog metal giants claimed could give Slipknot and Trivium a run for its money in heaviness

Metal Hammer

"Unexpectedly and unceremoniously terminated": Dave Mustaine must pay his ex manager over £1 million

But Megadeth man counter sues in bitter legal battle

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The Independent UK

From Linkin Park to Limp Bizkit, nu-metal is back but without the cargo pants and casual misogyny

IN FOCUS: Nu-metal was once shorthand for terrible fashion and even worse music. Now, with a new Linkin Park album and Limp Bizkit announcing their most extensive tour in years, this genre once considered the nadir for rock’n’roll has made a surprising comeback, writes Ed Power

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Megadeth's Dave Mustaine to pay ex-manager eye-watering $1.4 million in settlement

Dave Mustaine has agreed to pay a heft sum to his ex-manager after he sued him for unpaid commission fees.

MusicRadar

“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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"People would vomit when they saw it": Shawn 'Clown' Crahan on the worst injury he ever sustained with Slipknot

Percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan reveals how he lost 25 percent of his arm and opens up about that mysterious Slipknot album from 2008 that's still yet to be released

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“I never wanted to be in a band, I just liked playing music. I was never a showman. If I didn’t have my mask on I wouldn’t be at the front of the stage”: An interview with Mick Thomson, Slipknot’s reluctant guitar hero

The pressures of fame, blond mullets, ignoring phone calls from rock stars – up close and personal with Slipknot guitarist Mick Thomson

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The new Slipknot logo is a real Disasterpiece

Fans aren't loving the brand new 'S'.

Guitar World

“I started playing $150 Ibanez guitars because onstage I would take damage… Clown used to use metal bars. We were very unsafe”: Mick Thomson reflects on 25 years of Slipknot’s incendiary debut – and what it was like to see his solos erased

If Slipknot's debut remains a true face-ripper all these years later maybe it is because they brought the chaos of the stage show into the studio. Thomson can remember it vividly, the gear, the danger, the risk to his guitars from stray iron pipes, and he wouldn't have it any…

Metal Hammer

"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

Metal Hammer

The Prodigy, In Flames, Spiritbox and dozens more added to Rock Am Ring/Rock Im Park 2025 lineups

70 of the 100 bands that will play Germany’s two monster metal weekenders have now been named

Metal Hammer

"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

Metal Hammer

"He’s got his gas mask on, he’s all taped up and he’s flying like a bird." Inside the chaos and carnage of Slipknot's legendary first UK show at the London Astoria

Slipknot's chaotic, infamous headline show at London's Astoria on December 13 1999 cemented their status as metal's next superstars

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