Twenty-five years since their ground-quaking self-titled debut album, Slipknot are bringing the ache throughout the nation with as a lot depth as ’99.
That album is a few of the most excessive music ever to achieve a mainstream viewers. It rerouted the trajectory of steel and terrorized dad and mom and faculty principals. It made Slipknot heroes to misfits who painted their nails black and dismissed digs from meathead jocks. “They may inform it was actual. They may inform it got here from a spot that understood what it was wish to be marginalized,” Corey Taylor remembers. “We have been so fucking hungry we might have eaten via the backs of individuals’s heads.”
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For our Fall 2024 cowl story, three longtime members of the heavy, uncompromising group — Taylor, Shawn “Clown” Crahan, and Jim Root — mirror on the previous, the current, and provides us a style of the longer term. Preorder your copy as we speak and keep tuned this week. Additionally in AP’s Fall 2024 Problem, discover options on SPEED, Ice-T, Malice Okay, and extra.
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