According to a published report from The Hollywood Reporter, Slipknot has completed a deal to sell its music catalog. The deal — which is said to be worth approximately $120 million — between members of the long-running metal band and HarbourView Equity Partners includes the rights to Slipknot’s publishing and recording masters royalties. It reportedly covers the band’s archival catalog but does not extend to future releases. The band has released a statement to the press: Continue reading
Joining the ranks of countless celebrities, actors, politicians, and other musical artists, Corey Taylor and M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan of Slipknot faced off to the death on Hot Ones by First We Feast on YouTube! Asking each other a series of personal questions and doing some challenge rounds, we see what heat they can stand when it comes to eating “Death Wings!” Slipknot is currently on their “Here Comes the Pain” World tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their self-titled debut album (Roadrunner Records) and just headlined their Knotfest Iowa festival. Continue reading
Here Comes The Pain, and Slipknot is bringing it along with Orbit Culture and Knocked Loose. The tour came to the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, NJ recently and left everyone stunned.
Rock trio, The Black Moods, have just released their brand new documentary, 500 Days of Silence, produced in collaboration with Steelhorse Entertainment. The film – featuring appearances from artists such as Corey Taylor, Jim Adkins, Sammy Hagar, Rick Springfield, Kevin Cronin, and more – chronicles the band’s origin story, and the challenge of the live music shutdown. Find out more in the article below.
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Slipknot’s iconic major label debut, their second album overall, the self-titled Slipknot album was released on June 29th, 1999, twenty-five years ago. While the band’s building blocks can be heard on 1996’s Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. (-ismist Records), the band we know today was built here on this album. Produced by Ross Robinson, Slipknot is the first album from the band to feature Corey Taylor. The band exploded on the scene in 1999 in a national and then international sense, immediately earning an army of fans, starting out on a relentless 2-year tour that saw them begin Ozzfest 1999 on the side stage, eventually graduating to the main stage. The band, which has already played its first few gigs of 2024, will celebrate 25 years of this album on a world tour, as well as Knotfest Iowa and other events, and merch drops for 2024 and 2025. Enjoy some Slipknot content from Ghost Cult and jam out to the tunes now. Continue reading
This weekend’s Liquid Death Presents Download Festival XXI welcomed over 75,000 attendees to the hallowed grounds of Donington Park. DLXXI celebrated its 21st anniversary with incredible sets from first-time headliners Queens Of The Stone Age and Fall Out Boy, as well as Download favourites Avenged Sevenfold closing out the weekend with a bang. Continue reading
The album that would become Slipknot’s third album, and the crucial masterpiece in their history, almost didn’t happen at all. Between the hard-fought success of Iowa (Roadrunner Records), the well-documented interpersonal relationship issues between the nine band members, rising fame and pressure, side bands like Stone Sour, To My Surprise, and Murderdolls, and “off the field issues,” you couldn’t blame this band if they imploded totally around this time. However, overcoming themselves and all of these obstacles; Slipknot’s Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Versus) (a great pun on Salman Rushdie’s controversial book, The Satanic Verses, is one of their best albums, along with their debut might be their finest hour. It is certainly their biggest hit album on a lot of levels. It yielded six singles and as we like to say on the Glacially Musical podcast (where we reviewed this album), an album has a bunch of singles if it’s selling and the band is doing well on tour. Continue reading
With only one month to go until Download Festival, DLXXI has unleashed its “Beyond The Bands” offerings, giving Download-goers an even more exciting experience onsite with brand new food, drink, gaming and sport options. This year’s festival will take place on 14-16 June 2024 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Tickets are available now at the link below.
Another Record Store Day is upon us and we are still to bring you our pretty comprehensive list of what releases we think you should be picking up, and labels you ought to support. We get that commercialism and capitalism a kind of destroying the whole world, but at the same time if you love music, and if you especially love underground music, you want to support artists as hardcore as possible. The best way to do that is to put money in their pockets so they can keep doing what you love, and what they love. Continue reading
