Slipknot’s Jim Root: “I’ve given my entire life to this band”
Slipknot guitarist Jim Root sat down for the JOE cameras moments before a blistering set at Dublin’s 3Arena. As Corey Taylor himself noted a fistful of songs into Slipknot‘s triumphant return to Dublin earlier in the week – it’s been a while. Back in Ireland for the first time since a show at Belfast’s SSE Arena […]
6 years ago
Slipknot are doing a cruise
Beautiful aggression on the high seas. I mean, there’s really no point in fleshing that headline out any further, is there? 2019 has been a good year for Slipknot, returning with superb sixth album We Are Not Your Kind and topping the charts in the process. They also spoke to JOE at length, which was very […]
6 years ago
The band that everybody wants to hate – Slipknot in conversation
Slipknot’s “consciousness” and signature Clown opens on life, love, and two decades of pandemonium… “Hi everyone, Clown is on the line.” VOICE: Hello. JOE: Hi. Is that Clown? CLOWN: It is. Not how most interviews start, admittedly. This one is different. In truth, I always wanted to interview a clown. It’s a fascinating vocation, with the […]
7 years ago
REWIND: 20 years ago, Slipknot unleashed a most ferocious debut
Happy Birthday, maggots… “Yeah, but, they wear masks lolz!” Now that we’ve gotten that complex argument from Cool Guys that exclusively listen to The Beatles or Rachmaninoff out of the way, let us celebrate. I’m not quite sure just how this has happened, but it has now officially been 20 years since Slipknot burst onto the scene […]
7 years ago