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"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

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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…

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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.

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“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

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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"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

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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

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“Six finished arrangements”: Slipknot are putting together a new record after all

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

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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

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“The last thing you want to do is play a widdly-widdly riff that’s getting in the way of the vocal”: Those Damn Crows’ Ian ‘Shiner’ Thomas on how to write a No.1 album, what he learned from Nirvana, and the Slipknot riff he wished he wrote

With the Welsh rockers' latest album, God Shaped Hole, topping the charts, we check in with riff-master Shiner to talk song structure, grunge inspirations, and knowing when not to play

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Joey Jordison’s former death metal band Sinsaenum are back, will release new album in tribute to late Slipknot drummer in August

Sinsaenum – also featuring members of Kreator, Mayhem and others – will continue with Jordison’s old drum tech behind the kit

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Slipknot wrote “a bunch” of new music during the pandemic – and guitarist Jim Root says they’re scrapping all of it

“We need to just kind of, like, maybe sweep all that shit under a rug and start fresh”

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8 tracks we've been using to test in the What Hi-Fi? listening rooms this month

This month's edition features early 2000s nostalgia, a nu-metal masterpiece, Lorde's latest banger and an Arcane-inspired tale of vengeance.

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"They completely destroyed the bar we were playing and broke a waitress’s leg. It was a trainwreck." Inside the chaos and carnage of Acid Bath - the great lost Louisiana sludge metal band.

Tragedy might have cut Acid Bath's career short in the 90s, but now they're back and bigger than ever

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“Damn, that guy could shred. Can you imagine what that would have sounded like?” Wednesday 13 says the late Alexi Laiho once came close to joining him and Slipknot’s Joey Jordison in Murderdolls

The late Children of Bodom virtuoso nearly featured on the group’s second and final album

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Original Slipknot logo design revealed (and it's absolutely iconic)

Joey Jordison's original sketch is an instant classic.

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Family of late Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison launches Kickstarter campaign for unreleased Vimic album Open Your Omen

Joey Jordison's post-Slipknot band Vimic could finally see their debut album released thanks to family's crowdfunding effort

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"In Russia, when you see a bear, it's not ****ing funny." Alex Terrible is a bear-wrestling, bareknuckle fighting controversy magnet. He's also made Slaughter To Prevail unlikely metal icons

We head Stateside to speak to the man behind the mask as Russian deathcore crew Slaughter To Prevail prepare to unleash their new album

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Joey Jordison’s original Slipknot logo design revealed via social media

The late Slipknot drummer’s family have shared his initial sketch for the band’s legendary logo

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“You might laugh a little. The post office shipped your guitar to Jim Root”: This metal fan ordered a new guitar from Sweetwater – but it ended up with the Slipknot guitarist

Root randomly received a new Jackson that was destined for another player, after it went missing for a number of weeks

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“For some reason, the post office shipped your guitar to Jim Root of Slipknot”: Sweetwater mailed a metal fan's Jackson guitar to a metal legend

He received a flight case but no guitar

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