Slipknot guitarist Jim Root once asked Diamond Rowe of rising nu metal stars Tetrarch for lessons on his own instrument. Rowe, who co-founded her Atlanta-based band while in middle school in 2007, ...

Guitarist Steve Stevens on new Ciari Signature Series Ascender guitars and co-writing each of the new tracks on the latest Billy Idol album 'Dream Into It.' ...

Jim Irsay amassed one of the most impressive music memorabilia collections in the world during his lifetime. Here's what to know about it.

Sometimes a guitar you ordered gets lost in the mail. Other times it gets accidentally delivered to Jim Root of Slipknot despite the fact that you are currently located in Qatar. Shit happens, right?

A metalhead's new guitar was allegedly sent to Slipknot's Jim Root by mistake. In mid-February, an individual wrote a post on Reddit expressing his frustration over a missing guitar he purchased ...

Jim Root’s Fender Jazzmaster signature guitar is one of the most popular offsets of recent years, having served to radical reconfigured the popular indie stalwart design for heavy metal purposes.

You need a specialised instrument when you are in Jim Root’s line of work. Slipknot demands a certain kind of sound. But just because Root needs extremity in his electric guitar tone doesn’t mean he ...

The Van Halen signature Kramer guitar as seen in the music video for the hit song "Hot For Teacher" is being sold through an auction at Sotheby's. The starting bid is $1.8 million.

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and Gibson have teamed up for the Les Paul Junior signature model guitar. The new axe recreates Armstrong’s trusty single cut ’50s Les Paul Junior — what he ...

Mick Thomson and Jim Root On album and onstage, Slipknot guitarists Jim Root and Mick Thomson work together as a team. Both play rhythm and lead tracks, and both feed off the energy and excitement ...

Severe depression caused some serious problems for Jim Root that left him unable to play the guitar or write new music.