Features “This is one beautifully crafted labour of hate”: Our original 2001 review of Slipknot’s IowaOn August 28, 2001, Slipknot more than lived up to the hype with their second studio album on Roadrunner Records, Iowa…
Features Slipknot: Every song on Iowa, ranked from worst to bestEvery song on Slipknot’s second album is pretty damn great, but which of Iowa’s 14 tracks is the greatest of all?
News Slipknot announce 2022 summer European tourSlipknot have announced a huge return to Europe next July and August after having the postpone the shows…
Features “The hate is definitely back”: The turbulent story of Slipknot’s All Hope Is GoneSlipknot’s first U.S. Number One album, All Hope Is Gone, was born from turbulence and marked the end of an era…
Features Slipknot: Jim Root’s track-by-track guide to We Are Not Your KindJim Root takes us inside the creation of Slipknot’s sixth album We Are Not Your Kind, one track at a time.
Features The story of nu-metal in 14 songsFrom great beginnings to glorious success, your 14-point map of how nu-metal changed the world…
Features Missing links: 12 rock and metal albums that never wereIn an alternate universe you could be listening to these lost and unreleased projects – from Slipknot and Green Day to Deftones and Metallica.
News Roadrunner Records A&R pays tribute to Joey Jordison, recalls signing Slipknot"I saw the band’s true potential and knew I had to sign them…" Monte Conner – who signed Slipknot to Roadrunner Records in 1998 – pays tribute to Joey Jordison.
Features Joey Jordison: “Every time I go onstage and get behind the kit, it’s a gift”In November 2017, Kerrang! ran a career-spanning feature with Joey Jordison ahead of the release of Vimic’s Open Your Omens album – our last ‘major’ interview with the drum legend. In light of his devastating death, we revisit that conversation…
Features Now Hear This: Sophie K on the best new metalcore, emo and nu-metalKerrang! Radio host Sophie K brings you the new bands you need to check out now, including Static Dress, Defences and Afterlife…
Features The alumni of Kerrang! The Album: Where are they now?We track down the 39 bands who made up the Kerrang!: The Album, showcasing the very best that rock’s new millennium had to offer…
Features The 50 best albums from 2011From Mastodon and Machine Head to Foo Fighters and Frank Turner, we rank the greatest albums from the year 2011…
Features “That album is the sound of war”: The story of Slipknot’s 1999 debutOver two decades ago, nine masked maniacs from backwater America unleashed their debut album and changed metal’s history. Paul Brannigan, the first UK music journalist to witness their chaos, journeys back to that most dangerous of summers, where the story of Slipknot began…
News Updated: A round-up of all tours and events affected by coronavirus in 2021Stay up-to-date on all cancelled and rescheduled tours, festivals and events this year.
Features Slipknot’s new album: Everything we know so farFrom “gnarly” masks to potentially “conceptual” music, the follow-up to Slipknot’s 2019 album We Are Not Your Kind is taking shape. Here’s what we know.
News Slipknot, Rob Zombie, Limp Bizkit and more announced for Rocklahoma 2021Rob Zombie, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit will be joined by the likes of Halestorm, Anthrax and Knocked Loose at Rocklahoma 2021.