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.

"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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...