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.
THE BIGGEST SLIPKNOT COMPETITION EVER
Posted August 22nd 2008
Roadrunner Records in conjuction with BigPond Music, Xbox 360 and Ibanez Guitars is bringing you a Slipknot competition unmatched by any other!
We have a Slipknot prize pack to give away that is worth over $4880 as well as some extremely exclusive money can’t buy experiences that you would never ever get otherwise (how would you like to meet Mick Thomson from Slipknot?).
The competition is tied in with the release of Slipknot’s new album ‘ALL HOPE IS GONE’ which is being released digitally in MP3 format at 12:01am tonight (well actually tomorrow morning for the technically minded).
It is with huge regret and disappointment that we have been forced to cancel our imminent European festival appearances at Leeds, Reading, 2 Days a Week, Area 4, as well as exclusive performances for MTV Europe and Virgin TV. The other night, Joey Jordison broke his ankle and doctors have advised Joey to stay off his leg for 4-6 weeks to prevent further injury or permanent and more serious damage.
We know you will be hugely disappointed and so are we. Canceling shows is never an easy decision and we apologize to all our fans, friends and family for not being there to throw down with you. We will be back in Europe this November and can't wait to see you all then.
Stay (sic),
Slipknot
By the sound of it we should be right here for the Australian leg of the tour, but we'll keep you guys posted on further developments....
Slipknot nomitated for VMA
MTV has just announced that Slipknot has been nominated for a MTV VMA. The band was nominated in the "Best Rock Video" category for their "Psychosocial" video off the album All Hope Is Gone. The album will be released on Aug. 26 via Roadrunner Records. Other artists vying for this year’s “Best Rock Video” are Paramore, Linkin’ Park, Foo Fighters and Fall Out Boy.
The VMA's will air live on September 7, 2008 on MTV.
Pre-Release Album Launches
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Psychosocial Uncut Premier
Yet another interview with Clown.
Taken from chartattack.com
Slipknot have become one of the most popular and controversial metal bands of the last decade. Despite their immense popularity, percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan takes pride in the fact that, in their minds, they're still the same outcasts.
"I think we're more dangerous now than ever because good soldiers get to be good generals. That's where we're at. It's been 10 years of a philosophy, and I ponder it all day long. I remember not being able to walk down certain hallways just because we were brand new and misunderstood and misconstrued. People were discriminatory towards us. It was bad. But now, living the 'fuck it all' [mentality], we've pretty much broken down all the walls. We've pretty much kicked everyone who was going to be in our way out of our way, and all the naysayers are looking for passes."
Crahan says being different is the whole point.
"I enjoy knowing that what we create doesn't fit within these walls of efficiency. We're always the anomaly — the random chaotic thing in life that reminds you that you don't know shit and you need to always grow."
Although Crahan seems more than happy being an outsider, Slipknot made every move to try and fit in on their last record. They went to Los Angeles to record Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses with producer Rick Rubin. But despite his proven track record, Rubin's philosophy apparently didn't mesh well with the members of Slipknot. But he left his mark on Crahan.
"I would definitely want to go back with Rick. Rick is much more to me than we even have time to talk about, and it don't even feel good talking about it anymore for the simple fact that everyone's got their own idea of what producing is. And what it comes down to is everyone's got their own art and their own idea of what art is. What you try to do is you try to have an idea and try to have as many people to work around that idea as possible.
"And maybe Rick didn't do that for some people. So for me, all I can say is I definitely wanted to work with Rick again. I'm not going to say it's a mistake that we didn't, because we know what we're doing. This record sounds phenomenal. Dave Fortman did a great job on separating all of us, and I think sonically it's a great record. For me, Rubin's my head. That's where I'm at, to be honest with you. If you want to go all the way down the hole, then Rick's your guy. That's what I like to do. I like to go all the way down the hole. I'm looking for the rabbit, man."
For their upcoming record, All Hope Is Gone, Slipknot chose to avoid recording hot spots like New York or L.A. and elected to record in America's heartland in Jamaica, Iowa, near their hometown of Des Moines.
"We have a good friend who owns some land, just under eight acres," Crahan says. "His place is called Sound Farm. It's about 40 minutes from home. It was a pleasure. I would leave and come back and sleep next to my wife. The vibe that I had to leave and go to L.A. and do this thing called 'record making' because that's supposedly where we're suppose to do it, and pay my mortgage while I'm sitting in an apartment waiting to do my parts — are you fucking kidding me? If I had to do another record in L.A…. fuck, man, I don't know. I probably just would have left because I'm tired of it. I don't need it. I don't need what comes with it.
"Now when it came down to business, it was like, 'I'm getting up at 10 a.m., I'm getting in the shower, I'm driving out to the farm, I'm laying down some parts, I'm getting on my RM250, I'm riding around, I'm looking at cows, I'm fishing, I'm shooting bottle rockets, I got my kids out and I'm back home in my own bed.' It was the shit. I just lived it up, bro. I had the best time, and it was so close to home."
Curious what a metal album recorded on an Iowan farm sounds like? All Hope Is Gone is scheduled for release on Aug. 25, but you'll be able to hear Slipknot perform tracks from it beforehand when the band perform at the Rockstar Mayhem Festival with Disturbed, DragonForce, Mastodon and others at Toronto's Downsview Park on Aug. 8.
New interview with Clown
By Dave Wedge from Boston Herald
While many rock stars spend their downtime pondering when to order room service, Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan spends his days working feverishly to make sure his hydraulic drum riser won’t snap in mid-air and plunge him to yet another near-death injury.
Such is life when you’re in a maniacal mob that currently has one member in a wheelchair because he broke both heels leaping off a riser.
“One wrong move and uh-oh, Slipknot fashion,” said Crahan, who’s also known as #6 of the nine masked metal masters. “Nothing in Slipknot is safe.”
The agonizing injury to Sid “#0” Wilson occurred in Washington during the first show of the Iowa-based band’s run on the Rockstar Mayhem Fest, which pulls into Mansfield’s Comcast Center tomorrow.
The injury hasn’t slowed either Sid or the band. In fact, when the Herald caught up with Crahan by phone from St. Louis, the keg-slamming percussionist was desperately working with his crew to reinforce the welding on his drum lift. The reason? The previous night, Sid hung from it and it nearly broke off, which would have likely plummeted both musicians to further injuries.
“Sid was crawling on it and it bent forward, and I could feel it. If we had been on it anymore, I think we would have been done,” Crahan said.
Live, Slipknot is a seizure-inducing spectacle. But perhaps even more impressive is the fact that the Grammy-winning band has retained the same nine members for almost a decade.
“We have an unwritten oath that would never be understood by anybody about what we do and what we are,” Crahan explained. “It’s like this giant self-experiment on tolerance.”
Rumors of the band’s demise are constantly swirling, largely fueled by the success of singer Corey Taylor’s other platinum-selling band, Stone Sour, and other members’ side projects. But every couple of years they come back stronger than ever, and with redesigned versions of their horror-flick-inspired masks. The band’s latest album, “All Hope Is Gone” (Roadrunner), comes out later this month and if the blistering first single “Psychosocial” is any indication, it’ll be one of metal’s best this year.
“It’s an ongoing journey. It’s just another constellation in the nine-point star of Slipknot,” Crahan said of the new record.
As for the grueling - and frequently painful - life on the road, he added: “If it wasn’t for the god of music, I wouldn’t be able to get out there. I love it. As much as I hate it sometimes, I love it.”
Tattered And Torn Clothing Line Launched
Members of Slipknot have released the first designs for their brand new clothing label, Tattered and Torn.
SLIPKNOT vocalist Corey Taylor told Billboard magazine. "It's a way for them to get cool clothing at affordable prices."
Slipknot on Cover of Billboard Magazine
Slipknot Announce Australian Tour!
Slipknot today announced that they will be coming to our shores in October. Tickets will sell like hot cakes so I suggest you get over to the Roadrunner Australia website for more details and work out your strategy to get tickets!
Slipknot's Clown On 'Psychosocial' Video: 'Our Goal Has Always Been To Infect'
By Chris Harris
MTV.COM
For masked Iowan metallers Slipknot, this summer's inaugural Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival got off on the wrong foot — literally. In Seattle, during the band's first set of the tour, DJ Sid Wilson (a.k.a. #0) leapt from a riser stationed at the back of the stage and landed hard, breaking both his heels. While such injuries would sideline most rockers, it hasn't fazed Wilson one bit; he's vowed to take the stage each and every night of the tour and is employing a wheelchair as his primary means of transport.
But that's just the kind of band Slipknot are. Dedicated and intense, they simply don't quit — no matter what their bruises look like.
"[Sid] had to take his cast off last night, and I'm telling you, I couldn't even look at his feet," Slipknot percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan told MTV News this week. "Both his feet were black and blue — and deep. The bruises go, like, 2 inches in. But he's up there every night, no problem. He's so out of his mind, he's got a big bruise on his face because he's not used to slamming his head in a wheelchair. So he's got a huge bruise on his face from smacking his head into his tables. It never ends. You think you're out of it, and then you're back in, on some other painful level."
While Slipknot's members have suffered innumerable injuries on the road — most of them self-inflicted — Clown said you've got to admire Wilson's work ethic. "He's in a wheelchair, so that's pretty much the most extreme injury we've been hit with," Crahan explained. "I've had to miss an entire tour because of an illness of a family member, and [guitarist] Jim [Root] broke his wrist one time. But it was always you either miss the show or you don't. Sid was like, 'I broke my feet, but I can't miss a show, so here I am, in this wheelchair.' The good thing is, he now knows he's not 25 anymore."
Some German maggots decided to go a little bit over the line of the law with their All Hope Is Gone stenciling campaign. Hard core!
Slipknot Kerrang Honour!
To mark the return of the mighty SLIPKNOT, next week's Kerrang! magazine — out Wednesday, July 23 — will feature not one but nine individual covers!
SLIPKNOT is only the third band in Kerrang!'s 27-year history to be honored in this way, joining KISS and MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE.
Check out some teaser shots below.
In the latest issue of UK's Kerrang! magazine which went on sale today (Wednesday, July 16), SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor gives an insight into the band's upcoming, fourth studio album, "All Hope Is Gone", with a world-exclusive track by track report.
"Our new album is gonna shock the fuck out of people," Taylor told Kerrang! "I'm so fucking excited about it!"
The follow-up to 2004's "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)" was recorded at Sound Farm Studios in the band's home state of Iowa with producer Dave Fortman (EVANESCENCE, SIMPLE PLAN, MUDVAYNE).
"We just wanted to make something fresh and exciting," Taylor stated. "And after all the shit that we've been through in the last three years, it was time to take the gloves off again!"
For the full lowdown be sure to pick up a copy of this week's Kerrang! to see Taylor let rip on religion ("It all comes down to the fact that we have to save ourselves."), George W. Bush ("It's a dressing down of any civilization that takes themselves too seriously and where the 'leaders' are so pretentious that they think they are deemed to speak for the people.") and emo ("It wouldn't be a SLIPKNOT album if I didn't rag on the recording industry. This time, it's about all those little emo boys with their sweet haircuts.").
Interview With Paul Gray
Courtesy Ed Masley azcentral.com
Paul Gray of Slipknot doesn't necessarily think all hope is gone.
He does, however, think All Hope Is Gone is Slipknot's strongest album.
"Dude, I mean, we've been a band for a long time, man," he says. "And I think this one shows a wider spectrum of what Slipknot is. It definitely has our heaviest songs but it also has our most melodic and most musical songs too. So it shows everything we are."
A few key factors led the costumed rockers to their finest hour, leaving them totally "stoked," as Gray says.
First, they all took a much-needed vacation from Slipknot.
It's been a little more than four years since they hit the charts at No. 2 with Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses).
As Gray sees it, "Dude, that last album, we were in the studio for nine months then we went out on the road for something like 300 shows in, like, 35 different countries. That can take its toll, dude. We got done and we were just like 'Man, I'm burnt.' So we just took some time away and did some other things."
It's not that they were on the verge of breaking up, he says. They just needed a break.
"We're like a family, dude," he says. "We fight like brothers. So taking that time off, it gave us time to let things cool down, time for people to talk and work things out, not to say that there were necessarily specific problems. People were just burnt. We did a lot of Slipknot in that time. And then having that time, you get to explore different musical things you want to do that wouldn't necessarily be right for Slipknot."
Lead singer Corey Taylor and guitarist James D. Root went off and did their other, less aggressive band, Stone Sour, releasing an album, Come What(ever) May, that hit the charts at No. 4.
"And then," Gray says, "when it came time for Slipknot everyone was stoked and got it done, dude. No one was burnt."
It also may have helped that they recorded for the first time ever in their home state of Iowa.
"Every album we've done, it's always been Los Angeles and I think there are just a lot of distractions there," Gray says. "In Iowa, dude, we were out on a farm in the middle of nowhere at this studio. There was nobody out there to bug us so we were able to just kind of concentrate. And it obviously made a difference. We just did what we wanted to do out in Iowa. Nobody messed with us. We had our space and time to do what we wanted to do and get it done. That's why I think it just came out best. And doing it in Iowa, getting to go home every night instead of having to stay away from your families, I think that helped out too with people's mindsets."
Looking back on 13 years of mayhem, Gray says, "I'm just so amazed that it's actually turned into a career instead me having to work at a bar and doing concrete to pay my bills and then going and doing the band, driving all over the place in the middle of the night. That it's actually turned into a full-blown career and that we've touched as many people as we have is amazing to me."
Asked what role he thinks the masks have played in their success, Gray doesn't hesitate to give the masks their due.
"Obviously, there's a visual aspect that's going to set us apart no matter what," he says. "Visually, we stand out from your average band. Nine dudes in masks? You're gonna remember them over four dudes with long hair."
New Live Videos
Surfacing
Disasterpiece
The Blister Exists
New Album Is Going To Shock The Fu*k Out Of You
In the latest issue of UK's Kerrang! magazine which goes on sale tomorrow (Wednesday, July 16), SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor gives an insight into the band's upcoming, fourth studio album, "All Hope Is Gone", with a world-exclusive track by track report.
"Our new album is gonna shock the fuck out of people," Taylor told Kerrang! "I'm so fucking excited about it!"
The follow-up to 2004's "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)" was recorded at Sound Farm Studios in the band's home state of Iowa with producer Dave Fortman (EVANESCENCE, SIMPLE PLAN, MUDVAYNE).
"We just wanted to make something fresh and exciting," Taylor stated. "And after all the shit that we've been through in the last three years, it was time to take the gloves off again!"
For the full lowdown be sure to pick up a copy of tomorrow's Kerrang! to see Taylor let rip on religion ("It all comes down to the fact that we have to save ourselves."), George W. Bush ("It's a dressing down of any civilization that takes themselves too seriously and where the 'leaders' are so pretentious that they think they are deemed to speak for the people.") and emo ("It wouldn't be a SLIPKNOT album if I didn't rag on the recording industry. This time, it's about all those little emo boys with their sweet haircuts.").
SID Wilson Breaks Both His Heels
DJ Sid Wilson (#0) of SLIPKNOT broke both of his heels at the first show of the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival on July 9 in Auburn, Washington and has been forced to wear casts on both legs. He apparently jumped off one of the stages in the background of SLIPKNOT's stage set and landed incorrectly. Despite having casts on both legs, Sid has vowed to play all shows on the Rockstar Energy tour, even if it means getting around in a wheelchair, as was the case at last night's (Saturday, July 12) concert in Mountain View, California (pictures by Burningpoop).
SLIPKNOT's new album, "All Hope Is Gone", will arrive on August 23rd via Roadrunner Records. The title track was made available last month, while "Psychosocial" arrived at rock radio on June 30.
Photos taken at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on July 12, 2008 (pictures by Burningpoop).
Clown in Metal Hammer Podcast
Metal Hammer interviewed Clown in their latest podcast.
Slipknot played their first show in 2.5 years last night in Seatlle! Can you imagine f***ing being there!!!!!
Check out some fans videos uploaded to youTube:
Spit It Out
Duality
New Slipknot Ringtones Available!
Check the ringtones section.... we've got a little something for you maggots! Now you can answer calls to, wake up to, recieve messages to or just listen to new Slipknot tracks on your mobile phone!
Psychosocial and All Hope Is Gone are both available in ringtone format in The Knot Shop on this page!
Behind The Scenes Footage of Photoshoot
An original short film by photographer Clay Patrick McBride incorporating behind-the-scenes footage from his Revolver magazine photo shoot of SLIPKNOT in Iowa can be viewed below. Check out the August 2008 issue of Revolver to see the photos and to read a feature on the band hard at work in the studio on their forthcoming album, "All Hope Is Gone".
Tracklist for All Hope Is Gone Revealed
The tracklist for Slipknot's All Hope Is Gone is:
TRACKS:
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Gematria (The Killing Name)
Sulfur
Psychosocial
Dead Memories
Vendetta
Butcher's Hook
Gehenna
This Cold Black
Wherein Lies Continue
Snuff
All Hope Is Gone
The Special Edition of the album will also contain three bonus tracks:
Child Of Burning Time
Vermillion Pt 2. (Bloodstone Mix)
Till We Die
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone Album Cover Revealed
Here is the album cover for Slipknot's 4th release entitled 'All Hope Is Gone'. The album will be released on the 23rd August!
New Interview With Corey Taylor
Headbanger's Blog has posted a new audio interview with SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor conducted in late June. In addition to discussing the creation of the band's new disc, "All Hope Is Gone", Corey talked about the ever-present studio tensions that allow SLIPKNOT to create such explosive albums; lamented the volatile political climate in America and addressed why he's not voting in the 2008 election; emphasized the rewards and responsibilities of being a father and touched upon the personal hardships he was able to temporarily escape during the making of "All Hope Is Gone".. Click Here To Download the Interview
'Psychosocial' Now Online!
Mick Thomson has uploaded Psychosocial, the chugging new track from Slipknot's upcoming album All Hope Is Gone, on his official MySpace page. Take Me There
See the new Slipknot Masks right now!
The new slipknot masks have been unveiled! The growth of Slipknot continues as the band transforms their image into the next chapter of their career. Check them out below!
'All Hope Is Gone' Available for Download
You may or may not have been aware, but on Friday Roadrunner Australia gave everybody the chance to downloaded Slipknot's newest track 'All Hope Is Gone' free for 24 hours.
Thousands of maggots rushed in to take this opportunity, but if you missed out then don't despair! We now have it available for purchase and it costs just $1.69... Read More
Slipknot Announce Album Title
SLIPKNOT, the Grammy Award winning hard rock machine from Des Moines, IA is back! The band will release its fourth album, titled ‘All Hope is Gone’ on Roadrunner Records on 23rd August 2008. The album was recorded this spring in Slipknot’s home state and is co-produced by the band and Dave Fortman... Read More
