Slipknot Nominated for EMA!

Slipknot has been officially nominated by the audience for this year’s ‘Rock Out’ award at this year’s EMA’s!

You can help them out by voting for them here. Competition is tough with 30 Seconds to Mars, Linkin Park, Metallica and Paramore being the other nominees, so all maggots on deck!

Voting ends Nov 2nd and the Award ceremony itself is held in Liverpool on November 6th.

JOEY JORDISON on his addictions

In the next Kerrang! magazine, SLIPKNOT drummer Joey Jordison speaks frankly about his long-running, and very private, battle with drug addiction for the first time.

"I realized I had a problem with narcotics when I realized that I wasn't just hurting myself, I was hurting the people around me," Jordison told Kerrang! "I had a real moment of clarity last year. My girlfriend at the time, a girl who I thought I was gonna be with forever, cheated on me and I went on a three-week coke binge. I actually wrote some of the riffs for the new album ['All Hope Is Gone'] around that time, which is the only good thing to come out of it. But I just wasn't having fun anymore and my family knew it.

"My sister, Annie, kept trying to call me but I didn't want to speak to anyone. The phone was off the hook," he continued. "I didn't answer my door, the lights were off, and I was just fucking ragingly pissed off all the time. So she sent me a picture of my nephew. He was trying to play drums and he was wearing one of my old masks. And so I called her and she put him on the phone and he said 'I love you, uncle Joey,' and I was like 'Fuck it, I'm done. This is fucking stupid.' I realized I was basically fucking dying. It took that to make me realize what was really important in my life and that I'd done a lot of mean things to people."

Jordison also told Kerrang! that he's already bought his own grave.

"It's over down on Second Avenue [in SLIPKNOT's home town of Des Moines, Iowa]," he said. "That's what being in SLIPKNOT does to you."

SLIPKNOT Take Out #1 Position on the ARIA chart.

ALL HOPE IS GONE entered the ARIA chart this week at #1! This is the best position Slipknot have ever reached in Australia. They also took out #1 on the New Zealand chart, #2 on the Japanese, UK and German charts, #4 in Denmark and #11 in Belgium!

It's all thanks to you maggots out there so thankyou!

Slipknot win Kerrang! Icon Award

Slipknot have taken out the Kerrang! Icon award! Check it all out here!

ALL HOPE IS GONE Now Instores

That's right! So what are you waiting for! There's nothing else to do on a Saturday!

Also don't forget that the Slipknot competition will now be starting on Monday night due to 'technical difficulties' - not on Roadrunner's behalf! So sorry about the mix up, but for all information regarding the comp (you'll get to live like Slipknot people!) click here.

Thankyou to everybody entered the All Hope Is Gone stenciling campaign! Our judges are now going over the entries so expect a winner announced here soon! While you're waiting checkout all of the entries below.