Slipknot top Kerrang! nominations

Masked metal outfit Slipknot lead the nominations for this year's Kerrang! Awards.

The Iowa band are up for six gongs including best single, live band, best video, best album and best international band.

The weekly magazine's awards take place in London on 3 August and are hosted by Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Anthrax's Scott Ian.

Last year's winners included 30 Seconds To Mars and Rage Against The Machine.

Other bands also up for K! Awards this year include Gallows, Bring Me The Horizon, Metallica, You Me At Six, Green Day, The Gaslight Anthem, Enter Shikari and The Prodigy.

Recipients for The Kerrang! Icon, The Kerrang! Hall of Fame, Inspiration and Spirit Of Independence awards will announced on the evening with the rest of the categories voted for by Kerrang! readers.

Posted by Admin 1 Comments 03 Jul 2009

Slipknot Are Coming! - US Tour Teaser Video

US Headline Dates Start August 22nd



8/22 Seattle, WA White River Amphitheater - KISW Pain In The Grass 2009: Slipknot, Mudvayne and others
8/23 Kennewick, WA Toyota Center
8/25 Great Falls, MT Four Seaons Arena
8/26 Billings, MT Metra Park Arena
8/28 Boise, ID Quest Arena
8/29 Salt Lake City, UT The E Center
8/31 Colorado Springs, CO Colorado Springs World Arena
9/01 Casper, WY Casper Events Center
9/03 Fargo, ND Fargodome
9/04 Rochester, MN Mayo Civic Center
9/05 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Ballroom

Posted by Admin 3 Comments 02 Jul 2009

COMPETITION: Murderdolls BTVOTM Promo Album

Enter out competition for a Promo Slip-Card Version of Joey Jordison side projects Murderdolls album; Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls.

Anyone can enter the competition but in order to do so, you need a TWITTER account.

To enter this contest, all you have to do is login to your TWITTER account;
   1) Follow US on TWITTER
   2) Enter this message below in your update.

RT @slipknotmetal is giving away a promo version of the MURDERDOLLS album - head over to http://bit.ly/gxp5T for more info

       

Thats it. You will receive a confirmation message saying you have been entered (make take several hours).
       
The Winner will be chosen on AUGUST 1st. Competition closes on July 31st. You can also follow us on twitter and get more updates on competitions by 'following' us on twitter. Our account is 'slipknotmetal'
       
        Stay Sic,
        and stay tuned for the winner and more competitions!

Posted by Admin 0 Comments 02 Jul 2009

GP TV Clown Interview; #6 Talks about MJ

Göteborgs-Posten's GP TV conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan at this year's edition of the Metaltown festival on Friday, June 26 at Frihamnen in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Clown talks about his family, touring and other interesting things. Clown even talks about Michael Jackson.
Watch the eight-minute chat below.

Posted by Admin 2 Comments 01 Jul 2009

Competition Winners

COMPETITIONS: Winner of Joey comp was @kleinemadchen Wait and Bleed comp was @CzarofGnar - check your messages. You have 7 days to claim

Twitter.com/SlipknotMetal


Stay tuned for more competitions in the coming days...

Posted by Admin 0 Comments 01 Jul 2009

Paul Gray Interviewed At Norway's HOVEFESTIVALEN

VG TV conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT bassist Paul Gray on June 24, 2009 when the band played this year's Hovefestivalen on the island of Tromøy, just outside the city of Arendal in Norway. Watch the five-minute chat below.

Posted by Admin 1 Comments 28 Jun 2009

Corey talks Download

Corey Taylor has spoken out about the band’s now-legendary headline performance from this year’s Download performance.

Speaking on the Radio 1 Rock Show, Taylor said: “I’m still trying to find out what that was! It was tremendous, it was incredible, it was everything that I hoped it would be. Just the fact that people are still talking about it is a testimony to where we’re at.”

“The minute that I stepped onstage, I was anxious for about 35 seconds,” he continued. “I was kind of losing my mind until I looked down in the front row and these kids had a sign made that said “finally, Slipknot headlining Download” and I was like “this is it!”

“Your mind wanders to both sides of the equation. You’re either Maiden, where people have been waiting all day or you’re My Chem (My Chemical Romance), where people are like “why are you headlining this stage?” and you get pelted with bottles!”

You can get behind the masks of Slipknot with the eye-opening cover story from the latest issue of Metal Hammer (on shelves now) and you can also catch Corey Taylor playing his first ever UK solo show at this year’s Sonisphere festival.

Source: Metalhammer.co.uk

In related news, For the very first time, and exclusively to downloadfestival.co.uk, the Download Festival is giving fans the opportunity to relive performances from the event, ‘On Demand’ for the next three months.

Go to DownloadFestival.co.uk/Webcast to watch "Sulfur" and "Spit It Out" from Slipknot's Download performance.

Posted by Admin 3 Comments 27 Jun 2009

Clown Exposure: Before the Art

Shawn has started a new weekly photo blog on NoiseCreep.com and the first edition just came out today featuring a picture that he calls 'Before the Art'. Check it out right here.

When Slipknot percussionist Shawn Crahan (aka Clown) isn't working with his bandmates or playing drums with his side project Dirty Little Rabbits, chances are he's either hanging out with his family or taking strange and surreal pictures of the world around him as he'd like to see it – an art he's been cultivating for the past 10 years.

When he first started out, his shots were intriguing and unsettling, but not quite ready for prime time. But over the years he has honed his skills and developed his own style, one that relies largely on his obsessions with death, sex and dreams.

He started out by taking thousands of photos with his Mamiya medium format camera and a Polaroid back, and manipulating and distorted those shots to present alternate, often frightening perspectives of reality. And while he still enjoys destroying the integrity of photos by altering the settings on his cameras, using a scanner or tweaking the settings on Photoshop, these days he often strives to capture the nightmarish qualities of true images instead of making regular images appear nightmarish.

More importantly, he's ready to share those images with Noisecreep in a weekly guest blog called 'Clown Exposure.' His first entry, 'Before the Art' is a stark black and white photo, which, at first glance, resembles an ancient Mayan stone carving of a demon or a painful Medieval torture device. As Crahan likes to say, "If you see something, it's probably there." In a way, the picture is an instrument of torture and does represent a demon, but as Crahan explains below, it's a creation of Slipknot's own device.

"I try to spend as much time as I can every record cycle studying what we do, what we are, what we're made of what we make to be.

This is Corey's newest mask, which he designed for himself. I really like the transformation this mask has gone through because it used to have a top, which was sewn on. I don't know what the story is behind it, but he took the top off and left these stitches. And when it's on, I always comment how much I like the stitches. I just feel like more of the artist is breathing out through what we are. It's almost like we just become the masks. Corey becomes this person.



So, this particular day I was really feeling it. I put it down on a black carpet and I used an 85mm lens that really lets you get in there. I really like this photo because it's moving and it reminds me of a fish. It's something that isn't what it is. And if you showed this to the outside world who didn't know anything about what we do or who we are, they might have all kinds of other explanations of what this is. And they might not even put it together that it's a mask because it's laid out horizontally.

To me, this particular experiment is all about looking at something differently than what it is, especially in a shape other than what it's made to be. And that's why I like it so much. There's so many linear ideas. The circle in the middle represents the middle of this picture, but really it's for his ear. And it coincides excellently with his eye, and the eye goes down to the mouth. It's just something a little bit stranger than the obvious. Yes, it's obvious to us and most that know us, but maybe not so obvious for everyone else."

Source: NoiseCreep.com

Posted by Admin 1 Comments 27 Jun 2009