News 0 Slipknot is Nowhere Near Releasing New Music, Says Jim Root: “My Inspiration is Nearly Zero” May 12th, 2025 at 3:16pm Hesher Keenan Root just wants to “shut my brain off and sleep.”
News 0 Slipknot’s Jim Root Says He’s Threatened to Leak Look Outside Your Window December 13th, 2024 at 1:08pm Hesher Keenan Who knows if this will ever come out…
News 0 Slipknot’s Jim Root Says the Band is “Really Lucky” Eloy Casagrande Joined May 13th, 2024 at 12:02pm Hesher Keenan “We didn’t even try anybody else.”
News 0 Jim Root Says He Almost Didn’t Join Slipknot: “I Wanted to Feel like I Did It on My Own” July 13th, 2023 at 9:35am Em Shadows Fortunately he said yes… eventually.
News 0 Slipknot’s Jim Root: “Guitars Were Depressing Me” During the Pandemic October 13th, 2022 at 4:19pm Hesher Keenan We’re glad he’s reached out and gotten some help.
News 0 Slipknot’s Jim Root “Didn’t Have A Ton of Creative Input” and Feels Unsure About The End, So Far September 27th, 2022 at 12:20pm Hesher Keenan Sounds like things weren’t normal for the nine-piece.
But What Does Corey Taylor Think? 0 Are Corey Taylor and Jim Root Working on a New Project? September 13th, 2022 at 9:39am Em Shadows Sounds like the pair have an amicable relationship again.
Upcoming Bullsh*t 0 Slipknot Have Two Albums’ Worth of Unreleased Music, Says Jim Root June 15th, 2021 at 10:53am Vince Neilstein The mythical ‘Look Outside Your Window’ and a whole host of newer material.
Metal Legacies 0 Slipknot’s Jim Root Refuses to Open the Wah Pedal Dimebag Gave Him February 18th, 2021 at 10:06am MetalSucks “He’d probably want me to bust that thing out and beat the shit out of it. I can’t bring myself to.”
Upcoming Bullsh*t 0 Jim Root Says Slipknot are Working on New Music Already + He’s Planning a Solo Record April 29th, 2020 at 11:51am Vince Neilstein Root is taking advantage of the current downtime to summon his creative energies.
But What Does Corey Taylor Think? 0 Slipknot’s Jim Root Says He Had His “Mind-Blown” by the Music of Ariana Grande January 23rd, 2020 at 12:30pm Axl Rosenberg JIM ROOT LIKES POP MUSIC! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!
But What Does Corey Taylor Think? 0 Jim Root Initially Turned Down the Offer to Join Slipknot TWICE September 16th, 2019 at 9:12am Vince Neilstein “My chops were bad, I hadn’t even touched a guitar in years.”
But What Does Corey Taylor Think? 0 Jim Root Addresses Fan Complaints About Lack of Guitar Solos on Slipknot’s New Album August 29th, 2019 at 9:47am Vince Neilstein Someone cue up that Kirk Hammett clip from “Some Kind of Monster.”
Everyone's Replaceable 0 Jim Root Says Slipknot’s Tortilla Man is “a World-Class Pianist” and “Out of His Mind” August 20th, 2019 at 10:47am Vince Neilstein Identity of the mystery percussionist revealed?? Well, no, not quite.
Everyone's Replaceable 0 Jim Root Says Chris Fehn’s Departure Had No Effect on New Slipknot Album August 12th, 2019 at 10:35am Vince Neilstein The ousted percussionist didn’t contribute much to the band’s writing process, Root says.
Everyone's Replaceable 0 Jim Root Can’t Believe You Haven’t Figured Out Who Slipknot’s “Tortilla Man” is Yet August 8th, 2019 at 5:45pm Vince Neilstein CONSPIRACY THEORY ALERT!
Everyone's Replaceable 0 Jim Root Says He and Corey Taylor “Would Have Just Ended Up Killing Each Other” if He Hadn’t Left Stone Sour August 6th, 2019 at 4:30pm Vince Neilstein The Slipknot guitarist reflects on his dismissal from Stone Sour back in 2014.
But What Does Corey Taylor Think? 0 Jim Root Says New Slipknot Album Does NOT Sound Like Iowa June 18th, 2019 at 9:58am Vince Neilstein A direct contradiction to what Corey said!
But What Does Corey Taylor Think? 0 Corey Taylor, Jim Root, Shawn “Clown” Crahan, and Sid Wilson Recorded a Non-Slipknot Album November 20th, 2018 at 9:57am Axl Rosenberg Clown hopes to someday release this music, which was recorded during the sessions for All Hope Is Gone.
Studio Stuff 0 Slipknot’s Jim Root: Ross Robinson Rumor is “Fake News” October 1st, 2018 at 9:56am Vince Neilstein The Slipknot guitarist claims the band is not reuniting with legendary producer Ross Robinson, addressing last week’s rumors.
