After spending most of the '90s as a member of the Mid-West thrash and alt-metal scene with Atomic Opera and Stone Sour, Jim Root joined Des Moines, Iowa nu-metal-meets-groove-metal outfit Slipknot.

"Just recently, and this is sort of blasphemous and sacrilegious, and I told myself and everybody out there that's listening in the guitar world that I talked to on my Instagram, I might have fibbed a ...

For OG Slipknot fans, there’s no denying that some of their earliest work was their heaviest. It was just pure, authentically raw metal. And as fans, we know it isn’t always easy for bands to keep up ...

James Donald Root 4 Stuperbee Mr Bigs While he goes by many names the 66 man behind a mysterious mask coveralls and white Telecaster is here to tell all in this noholdsbarred documentary from FRET12 ...

Even Slipknot's Jim Root has tired of the wait for Slipknot's long-delayed Look Outside Your Window album. The guitarist revealed as much during a chat with Metal Hammer, going so far as to tell the ...

"But I think we work really well under pressure in some cases, in most cases." "I'm still trying to figure that out," he confessed. "I think that's the eternal [mystery] because, with writing, there's ...

“After a while, you're listening to things and you're hearing them different because they're evolving so much from where they began.” He further explained that this sometimes leads to him guessing ...