When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Andrew Benge/Redferns Slipknot guitarist Jim Root has started writing music for the nu ...

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Although Slipknot are currently in the studio working on new music, many questions remain about the material they've already written that remains unreleased. In a new interview, guitarist Jim Root ...

The End, So Far is in sight. Slipknot's latest album is due this Friday (Sept. 30), but it wasn't necessarily an easy journey in getting to the point of release. Guitarist Jim Root detailed some of ...

For OG Slipknot fans, there’s no denying that some of their earliest work was their heaviest. It was just pure, authentically raw metal. And as fans, we know it isn’t always easy for bands to keep up ...

"It was really hard for us to pick the songs that ended up on this record." "When I'm home — I don't have a wife or kids or anything like that — so I write music when I'm at home." said Root. "There's ...

It’s hard to imagine Slipknot without guitarist Jim Root in the mix, but, according to him, he almost didn’t join the band. In a new interview, the guitarist remembers what he was doing when he got a ...

New Slipknot drummer Eloy Casagrande recently opened up about his audition process for the band, and about how he came to ultimately join the Iowan unit. Now in a new interview with Tone-Talk, ...

Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Jim Root are planning a side project together. The former infamously had his bandmate thrown out of his other group Stone Sour in 2014, but the pair have since healed their ...

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Slipknot guitarist Jim Root has started writing music for the nu metal nine-piece’s next studio album and hopes for it to have shared traits with their first two releases. During a new appearance on ...