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One of the best voices in metal officially becomes a year older today, as Corey Taylor (he of Slipknot and Stone Sour fame) celebrates his birthday on December 8. The multi-talented, sometimes-masked musician is now 37 years old, and he has come quite a long way from a childhood spent in Iowa.

After learning about rock music from his grandmother and graduating from Elvis licks to Black Sabbath riffage, Taylor helped form Stone Sour in 1992. The band put together some demo recordings and played a steady stream of gigs, but Taylor and bandmate Jim Root became more focused on a new project called Slipknot around 1997. Taylor put his own band on hiatus to focus on Slipknot, which ended up being a reasonable decision.

Though their sound was decidedly chaotic and wholly non-commercial, Slipknot quickly earned a reputation as an intense live act who were forging an entirely new sound in the metal arena.

Rocker Corey Taylor paid an audience member to walk out of a gig by Stone Sour - because the man kept demanding to hear Slipknot songs. The singer formed Stone Sour in 1992 but it was put on hiatus five years later when he and guitarist Jim Root left to join Slipknot.

They reformed in 2002 but the reunion was blighted by Taylor and Root's "other" band - because most fans wanted to see Slipknot instead. Taylor tells Metal Hammer magazine, "Playing gigs where three-quarters of the audience are screaming 'Slipknot!' and you're just like, 'If you're here for that then you're at the wrong gig'."

"I can remember pulling money out of my pocket onstage and giving it to someone at the front and having security escort them out. If you don't want to be here and you want your money back, then here you f**king go, now get out,...

Two months after the death of their bandmate, frontman Corey Taylor, guitarist Jim Root and drummer Joey Jordison have differing takes on how to proceed.

By James Montgomery

Slipknot's Paul Gray

Photo: Naki/Redferns

It's been two months since Slipknot bassist Paul Gray was found dead in an Iowa hotel room, and in that time he's been mourned by friends, fellow musicians and, perhaps most of all, his bandmates, who remembered him as "the best of us" during an emotional press conference.

At the time, they were a group united by grief. But these days, it seems like the remaining members of Slipknot are at odds about the very future of the band ... if a future even exists at all. In a recent interview with the BBC's Zane Lowe, frontman Corey Taylor said that while he and his Slipknot mates are talking, they hadn't reached a decision about whether they...

Slipknot have yet to decide whether or not to continue as a band following the death of bandmate Paul Gray because recording and performing again without the bassist is almost unthinkable. The heavy rocker, 38, was found dead in a suburban Des Moines, Iowa hotel on May 24. Toxicology and final autopsy reports have revealed Gray died from an accidental overdose.

His Slipknot bandmates have been left devastated by the tragedy and guitarist Jim Root insists the group needs time to grieve before even contemplating continuing to make music together. He says, "There's going to be a big healing process that needs to happen before we even think about whether or not Slipknot will continue. And right now that's the furthest thing from our mind."

"Right now we are just grieving or trying to find time to grieve anyway for the fact that our bro's gone. It's weird because some days I don't even think it's real,...

AOL just premiered Slipknot’s short film “Snuff” directed by M. Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan and photographed and co-directed by P.R. Brown. The short film stars Malcolm McDowell (Rob Zombie’s Halloween, A Clockwork Orange), Ashley Laurence (Hellraiser) and Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor. The song featured in the film is from Slipknot’s album “All Hope is Gone”. Band Biography: Slipknot is an American metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. The current line-up includes Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray, Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor. They are recognized as one of the pioneering bands in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. The band formed in late 1995 [...]...

As the dust still settles from last month's performance at the Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors in Las Vegas (their last set for the All Hope Is Gone album cycle), the folks over at DunlopTV have been catching up with our friends from Slipknot to discuss their guitar rigs, playing style, and the future of their projects.

Check out the videos below featuring guitarists Mick Thomson and Jim Root, along with frontman Corey Taylor discussing his shift into prep mode for the new album by Stone Sour.

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Roadrunner Records released this brand new Slipknot music video “Psychosocial” from their album All Hope Is Gone due for release on the 25th of August 2008. Band Biography: Slipknot is an American metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. The current line-up includes Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray, Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor. They are recognized as one of the pioneering bands in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. The band formed in late 1995 and underwent several line-up changes following the independent release of their debut album, Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. in 1996. Their first studio-produced album, Slipknot, was released in 1999. followed by two further studio albums, Iowa in 2001 and [...]...