The Latest Breaking News from Jim Root

Jim Root says he wants to make a “raw” album

The guitarist also reveals that he has “six finished arrangements” for the nu metal icons’ eighth studio album

“We got a new album,” the percussionist and Slipknot co-founder declares

Sick of waiting for Slipknot’s atmospheric rock album to come out? So is guitarist Jim Root!

The Periphery guitarist recently worked with Jackson to produce one of 2024's most talked-about custom builds – but he's not the first player to have dragged the offset into heavy territory over the past few years

The guitarist has been using a Kemper in the studio, and his new music features a blend of both tube and digital amps

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…

25 years on from their self-titled debut, Slipknot look back at the years that helped them define 21st Century metal

Jealous bands would “shit talk” Slipknot when they made their breakout appearance on the 1999 Ozzfest