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Nathaniel Rateliff and his band, The Wheel, play Boulder's Fox Theatre on Thursday and Denver's Bluebird Theater on Friday.

SLIPKNOT / STONE SOUR guitarist Jim Root recently took Dunlop TV through his entire guitar rig backstage at a SLIPKNOT show.

Slayer's place in metal history is secure. They are one of the most influential bands in the history of the genre, with some great albums and legions of memorable live shows.

The London News.Net Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 London, Nov 3 : Lady Gaga has been voted the Weirdest Celebrity for her provocative paparazzi video.

On the Spectrum: Can musicians' clout shut down Guantanamo? A group of musicians has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out whether their music was played at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

It's the spookiest time of the year. Yep, Halloween is right around the corner. But local Halloween happenings aren't concentrated solely on Oct.

Slipknot aren't sneaking up on anybody at this point in their career. They've spent the past decade turning the metal world end-over-end, their reputation preceding them as a highlight reel of masked vomit, broken-bones, head-banging, hair-whipping and apocalyptic mayhem plays in the background.

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor has confirmed that he was being considered for the singer slot in VELVET REVOLVER following the departure of Scott Weiland .

The 411 Music Top Five 10.20.09: Top 5 Favorite Songs From 2004 Posted by Ben Czajkowski on 10.27.2009 Continuing to count down the decade in songs, the 411Music Staffers talk about their Top 5 Favorite Songs from 2004.

The two-day Cypress Hill SmokeOut was a mix of music, marijuana, memorable performances and no reported major problems for authorities.

Independent music record label Indie Power recently conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor .

" Talk about a weekend with something for everyone, this weekend has it. Besides all the announced, advertised music shows happening at the usual places and others where you find out who's playing once you get there happening above and underground around the area, the heralded blockbuster events of this weekend are as follows.

Metal Sanaz recently conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT lead vocalist Corey Taylor about playing this year's Download festival, the upcoming Halloween show, and enduring over 10 years of touring and album releases.

Photos taken on the first day of the Loud Park festival, which is being held October 17-18 at Makuhari Messe, a convention center in Japan located in the western region of Chiba Prefecture, close to Tokyo, can be found at this location .

It's a strange experience seeing a heavy metal singer in a death mask gushing over his fans like some country star.

Wednesday night's concert at the Val Air Ballroom in West Des Moines was an odd merger of worlds.

When Slipknot's third album, Iowa, arrived to considerable fanfare in the summer of 2001, drummer Joey Jordison levelled the boom by saying he didn't think the band could last another two albums.

Back in 1999, nu metal was the new metal. But it was a rather short-lived trend and many of the bands of that subgenre have since been washed away into rock obscurity or ridicule.

Cynics might have counted Slipknot as down and out, but Corey Taylor and crew are having the last laugh In a testimony to the cathartic power of Slipknot, it's almost impossible to believe that the voice on the line belongs to the masked lunatic known to die-hard maggots as #8. Proving that you can't always judge a guy by his on-stage persona, ...

Along with all the new music online and in stores these days, there's plenty of new old music -- remastered reissues, long-lost live albums, obscure oddities, big box sets and much more.