When life was loud

Hit Parader Magazine November 2002 Joey Jordison certainly knows how to attract attention. The first time this ever-clever rocker attempted to garner some public acclaim for a band, the results were a chart-topping run for Jordison's primary project, Slipknot, for whom he's played drums since that group's formation some seven years ago. But while he was working hard to earn the Knot's darkly menacing metal sound a permanent place in the public psyche, he was dreaming of turning his "other" band, the Murderdolls, into a unit capable of having just as much commercial and artistic impact upon the hard rock scene. Now, with the release of that groups first album, Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls, it appears that Jordison (who plays guitar in this outfit), vocalist Wednesday13, guitarist Tripp Eisen (on loan from Static-X), bassist Erik Griffin and drummer Ben Graves are about to explode on a still-unsuspecting New Metal scene. Recently we had the chance to tal...

Musikexpress (Germany) c.2009 MATTHEW and DOMINIC are sitting in a domestic kitchen setting. There is fridge behind them, and a microwave to the side of MATTHEW, which he takes the teapot full of questions out of. DOMINIC is holding the microphone. Throughout the interview, MATTHEW is playing with what appears to be coffee grounds.  PART 1: "IF I WAS AN..."  MATTHEW (reading a question slip): "If I was an musical instrument, I would be..." (crumples the slip up, while he thinks) well, it's boring, but I'll go for a piano. Because, you know, it's uh...all the notes are equal.. DOMINIC takes the next slip out of the teapot DOMINIC: "If I was an actor, I would be..." erm... MATTHEW: Luke Skywalker?  DOMINIC starts laughing MATTHEW says something about "being something else" (it's hard to make out as he isn't speaking into the mic) DOMINIC (thinks): Geezer out of Depeche Mode..no...well, I would be...well, I think you know one of ...

2009 Bath : Future Pub. Ltd Master technicians or drop-tuned buffoons? We ask their axe hero Mick Thomson if the real Slipknot will please stand up.  Are Slipknot tours getting harder? "It's never felt good - doesn't matter if I was 24 or 34. The inside of my right thigh used to be black and blue all the time from the point on my BC (Rich) Warlock. Now I use Schaller strap locks and the little button gets me. It's a hazardous show. Especially when it's really hot. Then my hands get saturated, soften up and up on the high strings it's like you've got a cheese slicer. Between songs I'll pull the cuts open, have my tech put in superglue, then go back out." All Hope Is Gone debuted at number one - does that mean Slipknot has finally been accepted?  "We're not accepted. I was just at the MTV Video Awards, and no, we're definitely not accepted. We were in a room where we were the only band that actually plays their own music. Everybody else ...