Who wants to party like it’s 1999? Slipknot. That’s who. They’ve unveiled an incendiary new single called “The Chapeltown Rag” that sounds like it’s off one of their first couple of records. Ranting Corey Taylor, full on percussion and some chunky riffs of old. It seems that the Iowa natives are restless once more and
Impact Metal have turned back the hands of time and shared a previously unreleased interview split into two parts with former DragonForce and Kreator bassist and Sinsaeum guitarist Frédéric Alexandre “Fred” Leclercq ahead of a show in Budapest Hungary on 17th August. Discussion ranges from influences to new bands, from the much missed Joey Jordison to
“We recorded the album last year with David Radahd-Jones in Manchester at Red City, which seems like a lifetime ago at this point. We’ve been in the exact same position as everyone else: raring to go, but waiting for the right moment. These songs were all written before what’s happened in the last 18 months,
Defenders of Pineapple Pizza, Northeast Hate breakdown dispensers Gaslighter have joined the celebrations for the 20th Anniversary of “Iowa” by Slipknot with a Deathcore rendition of “Left Behind” which comes after the tragically recent passing of drummer Joey Jordison. A relatively new band, Gaslighter debuted their first single “Dead Peasants” in April which sees them
Having already covered the Nu-Metal classic that is “Freak On A Leash” by KoRn in their short time together, Southampton Cyberpunk influenced Deathcore outfit Majin have turned their sniper scope to target a personal favourite in Slipknot classic “The Heretic Anthem“. That has surfaced just a few weeks after the tragic death of former Slipknot
The third and final part of our Joey Jordison tribute looks back at the five projects that took him from Des Moines, Iowa to the Global stage as a true hero and icon of Metal during a 31 year career that touched many hearts and left behind a legacy of which anyone would be proud.
Yesterday saw us throwback to 2010 and “Women and Children Last” from Murderdolls in tribute to the dearly departed Joey Jordison and so with heavy hearts we’ve decided to keep that run going and put together a pair of covers of a Slipknot classic. Rewinding the tape to 1999 and the Des Moines Iowa Monsters debut
Hearing of the death of a hero and a legend is never easy and in Joey Jordison we lost a man who was the epitome of a Metal musician and a much loved human being. How much his suffering from acute Transverse myelitis, a neurological disease that causes inflammation of the spinal chord was a
The continuation of the longest running series upon these pages means it will soon surpass Sir Mo Farah’s average road race mileage and this time our we’re going for something heavier. There aren’t going to be many who could argue that the first two Slipknot albums are better than the rest of their back catalogue,
For us, the first two Slipknot albums remain superior, the others as good as they are have always been Sour Knot or Slip Stone, perhaps tainted by the need for Corey Taylor to water them down with something from his Stone Sour side project. So to have a pair of Deathcore Beasts in VCTMS and
