Joey Jordison was a founding member of Slipknot in 1995, played the drums on the band's five first albums, staying until his departure in December 2013. He later revealed that he suffered from transverse myelitis, a neurological disease that limited his the ability to play the drums. Not only was he one of metal’s premier drummers, he was a key songwriter in the group, responsible for co-writing some of Slipknot’s best-known songs, Blabbermouth reports.

11-year-old phenomenon Nandi Bushell ripped through a drum cover of Slipknot’s 'Duality', attracting the attention of Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg who tweeted “You’re the best, Nandi!!”. Bushell masters the intense double-kick pedal and controlled chaos of the song’s drum part, Consequence emphasizes. Bushell even sports a mask of Slipknot guitarist Mick Thomson to look appropriately spooky as she plays along.

Three Slipknot members are getting a toy-treatment by pop culture collectibles producer Funko for their popular line of "Pop! Rocks" vinyl collectibles. Despite Slipknot totaling nine members, and more if you were to count past members, only three figures - Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson and Craig Jones - have been announced. Taylor, Wilson and Jones are depicted in their most current state as seen on the 'We Are Not Your Kind' album cycle.

Reddit user Minh1905 shared a video of a baby crying, with Slipknot coming to rescue. A dad holds his baby in his lap, until he plays 'Psychosocial' when the baby stops crying, actually it seems it really enjoys the song.

Five-year-old Slipknot fan and viral air-drummer Caleb H got decked out in period-appropriate Slipknot gear to blast his way through the band's classic 'Before I Forget' on an electronic drum set. Previously, his father uploaded a video with the young drummer playing a cover of 'Toxicity' by the System of a Down (lower below).

Event organizers from Hydro club in Glasgow have banned numerous accessories ahead of Slipknot gig on Saturday, including spiked collars, large belt buckles, and large chain wallets. The band's promoters have requested similar restrictions at previous gigs, and fans were quick this time to criticize and make fun of these regulations.

Tickets site TickX gathered Spotify data and curated a set of artists, songs and genres for the moods happy, sad, sexy, love, angry, and chill. The statistics for the list dubbed The Ultimate Playlist for Every Mood were drawn from a variety of playlists that featured those six moods as keywords. Top songs in each mood are. […]

Slipknot canceled their performance at their own Knotfest Mexico festival on Saturday night due to a broken barricade and an on-stage fire, Revolver reports. Audience members broke through the stage barrier and, after repeated attempts to fix it, Knotfest announced that the night would no longer proceed as planned. Evanescence, who were scheduled to go […]

Loudwire is looking forward to the Helloween season, so they made a list of 15 musicians from rock and metal milleu, all the way from David Bowie in the 'Hunger' to Slipknot's Corey Taylor in 'Fear Clinic'.

"We don't have a problem with streaming. We don't have a problem with people listening to our music. What we have a problem with is these streaming services basically treating it like we owe them" - Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor told Rock Feed. What bands can do, he says is "they can start by all […]

Slipknot sold 118,00 equivalent album units last week of their newest release 'We Are Not Your Kind' in the US, which earned them a top Billboard 200 spot. Of that sum, 102,000 were in album sales. 'We Are Not Your Kind' is the first hard rock album to lead the Billboard 200 since Foo Fighters’ 'Concrete and Gold' […]

The Iowa masked band's sixth LP, 'We Are Not Your Kind' has gone straight in at the summit of UK chart, knocking Ed Sheeran's collaborations LP off the top spot. It is also the band's first chart-topping album for 18 years in the UK, after 2001's 'Iowa'. The last metal act to conquer the UK […]

"Bold, fearless and exhilarating" - Kerrang! says about masked metallers' sixth album, but it's not only metal scene that likes it. NME calls it "an astonishing record", Exclaim says it's a "rebirth of the maniacal and constantly changing sound that earned them their fame, and opens a new chapter for the band", even the sophisticated […]

Loudwire made our metal year so far much easier by compiling what they hear are best metal songs. It's not all, not everything is that great, but it's a start. So, they've got "an instant Amon Amarth classic" Raven's Flight, Born Of Osiris who "teeter between glitchy palm-muted chugs and atmospheric textures" in Cycles of […]

The O'Keefe Music Foundation united a group of kid musicians, including an 8-year-old singer, to play a version of Slipknot's 'The Devil in I'. The rest of the group is comprised of teenagers who execute a stunningly accurate take on the song, laying down a heavy foundation for youngster Taylor Campbell, who expresses angst with […]

A recent study showed how different types of music - metal, classical, pop and hip-hop - affect drivers, with the results suggesting that metal could push motorists to the extremes (they tried with Slipknot's '(sic)'). Classical music was no better - it relaxes the driver to the point of sleepiness (it was Bach). Meanwhile, pop […]