People = Cash: Slipknot eyeing up a £120 million catalogue sale to investment firm Deal wouldn’t cover future releases MusicRadar · Aug 15, 2025
Slipknot reportedly closing in on $120 million sale of entire music catalogue Slipknot are believed to be in the final stages of a mega-deal that will secure them millions for their music catalogue. BANG Premier · Aug 15, 2025
Want to push your hi-fi system to the limit? This heavy metal track is the final boss of testing An unforgettable test track What Hi-Fi? · Aug 11, 2025
I have to stop fighting the overwhelming evidence: nu metal and metalcore are officially dad rock now Slipknot t-shirts being sold by Debenhams. Spotify 'Dad Rock' mixes featuring System Of A Down, Avenged Sevenfold and Killswitch Engage. Game over, mates Metal Hammer · Jul 29, 2025
“My guy redesigned it into a medieval weapon: he did the blood splatter, drilled spikes on the side, and added three stripes because we wear Adidas all the time”: Slaughter To Prevail’s electric guitars are as savage as their deathcore breakdowns Guitarist Jack Simmons unpacks his wild ESP refinish, why pinch harmonic riffs are the best riffs, and how he grabbed Ronnie Radke and Babymetal to guest on the metal heavyweights’ third record Guitar World · Jul 28, 2025
Slipknot's 25th anniversary re-release of their game-changing debut album includes a box set with 'blood-filled' vinyl and 40 previously-unreleased songs Slipknot's six album box will feature 59 recordings including demos, live versions and rarities Metal Hammer · Jul 21, 2025
“These up-and-comers feel fully formed and vital”: Mawiza are endorsed by Gojira, Slipknot and King Diamond, and they’ve just put out one of 2025’s most important debut albums Chilean groove metallers Mawiza explore their indigenous Mapuche Nation culture on colossal debut Ül Metal Hammer · Jul 20, 2025
"I would give my left arse cheek to be on a soundtrack for a movie like Resident Evil": Bury Tomorrow's Dani Winter-Bates picks the 10 songs that changed his life From Slipknot and Through The Eyes Of The Dead to AFI and Tracy Chapman, these records made Bury Tomorrow vocalist Dani Winter-Bates who he is Metal Hammer · Jul 16, 2025
Members of Slipknot, Lamb Of God and Anthrax set to join the Osbournes at Comic-Con Midlands this weekend Slipknot’s Sid Wilson, Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe and Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Frank Bello will do meet-and-greets and sign autographs in Birmingham on July 12 and 13 Metal Hammer · Jul 9, 2025
Who is Sid Wilson? Kelly Osbourne’s rock star fiance who proposed at final Black Sabbath show The Slipknot keyboardist is engaged to the daughter of musician Ozzy Osbourne The Independent UK · Jul 7, 2025
Meet Sid Wilson – The Man Who Proposed to Kelly Osbourne During Black Sabbath's Last-Ever Gig Sid Wilson proposed to Kelly Osbourne backstage at Black Sabbath's final concert, marking a major moment in both their personal and musical lives. International Business Times UK · Jul 7, 2025
"One of the scariest songs I ever heard." Slipknot's Corey Taylor pays tribute to Black Sabbath, reveals the song he listens to so he can "go some place mentally." Slipknot aren't playing Black Sabbath's final show, but the metal legends have had a profound impact on Corey et al all the same Metal Hammer · Jul 4, 2025
10 Musicians Who Make More From Merch Than Music When you think of musicians raking in millions, you probably picture streaming hits or sold-out concerts. But for many artists, merchandise—T-shirts, hoodies, vinyl, and even cereal boxes—brings in more cash than their actual music. With streaming platforms paying fractions of a cent per play, merch has become a major income… Plunged in Debt · Jul 3, 2025
BANG Premier · Jul 2, 2025 Corey Taylor hails Black Sabbath for providing a 'blueprint' for heavy metal rockers Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor has thanked Black Sabbath for paving the way for other heavy metal bands as the Paranoid rockers prepare to play the final gig of their career this weekend.
Guitar World · Jun 21, 2025 “Greg had this ‘60s P-Bass with a nut that had been cut so many times that the strings were rattling around, and a pickup that couldn't really handle how hard I played”: Alex ‘V-Man’ Venturella on tone, technique – and how he nailed his Slipknot audition Slipknot's low-end specialist discusses his epic amp collection, the brilliance of Eloy Casagrande and how James Hetfield shaped his technique
Metal Hammer · Jun 20, 2025 “The ultimate anti-everything symbol”: How heavy metal found its fashion sense From denim vests to bullet belts and drawer after drawer of black t-shirts, this is how metal music developed its signature dress code
Metal Hammer · Jun 19, 2025 10 classic rock and metal tunes you (probably) forgot were released as movie tie-ins From U2 in a Batman movie to Korn in Tomb Raider and Slayer in Dracula, these songs have outshone the movies they were first featured in
Metal Hammer · Jun 18, 2025 Korn say Sleep Token “shut up” the haters with Download festival headline set: “They went bigger than a Slipknot stage” Brian “Head” Welch and James “Munky” Shaffer think that Sleep Token proved the doubters wrong with their show at the UK’s biggest rock/metal extravaganza last week
Metal Hammer · Jun 12, 2025 We went to Poland's biggest metal festival Mystic - this is what it was like From watching Hatebreed cover Slayer in the rain to spectacular sets from King Diamond, Witch Club Satan, Sepultura and more, this is what it was like at Mystic Festival 2025
Metal Hammer · Jun 12, 2025 The 10 best Sleep Token songs ever From obscure masked metal curios to Download headliners and record-breaking streams, Sleep Token are the biggest thing to hit metal in a generation. Here are their 10 best songs so far
Metal Hammer · Jun 9, 2025 "We are missing one of our brothers." Watch Slipknot play to a massive crowd headlining Rock Am Ring festival without founding member Shawn Crahan Watch pro-shot footage of Slipknot's headline performance for 90,000 maggots in Germany
Metal Hammer · Jun 5, 2025 Slipknot’s Jim Root once asked Diamond Rowe of nu metal up-and-comers Tetrarch for guitar lessons: “I was like, ‘OK, dude, come on!’” Rowe’s nu metal revivalists have also been endorsed by members of Fear Factory and Hatebreed
MusicRadar · May 27, 2025 “Six finished arrangements”: Slipknot are putting together a new record after all Jim Root says he wants to make a “raw” album
Metal Hammer · May 26, 2025 Jim Root wants Slipknot’s new album to be made like the debut and Iowa: “I would like to revisit the raw energy of how those first two records were recorded” The guitarist also reveals that he has “six finished arrangements” for the nu metal icons’ eighth studio album