This past summer, while discussing Slipknot members' various injuries and subsequent surgeries, guitarist Jim Root theorized about his preferred method of ending the Midwest-reared metal group. At ...

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 ...

Slipknot guitarist Jim Root admits that he put off having a family in order to be in the band. "It's a lot of work," he told the Irish publication Joe.

Slipknot guitarist Jim Root has started writing music for the nu metal nine-piece’s next studio album and hopes for it to have shared traits with their first two releases.. During a new ...

Slipknot guitarist Jim Root has said that he’s started to develop his own solo project.. Root, who joined the band back in 1999, spoke about his solo ambitions in a new interview that’s been ...

Slipknot’s Jim Root. In 1996, Root joined Corey Taylor’s Stone Sour. When Taylor replaced Colsefni in Slipknot in 1997, the guitarist said he still wouldn’t join the masked band because he ...

Slipknot recorded two albums in 2008 – All Hope Is Gone, which we've all heard; and Look Outside Your Window featuring vocalist Corey Taylor, guitarist Jim Root, percussionist Shawn "Clown ...

Slipknot’s guitar players Mick Thompson and Jim Root sat down with Music Radar to discuss the band’s early days and the gear choices they made that shaped Slipknot’s distinct sound. Thompson and Root ...

As for what a Jim Root solo project might sound like, that’s anyone’s guess. Hard rock? Country? Polka? Everything’s fair game, but I’d reckon it probably won’t be metal. That would likely piss off a ...

Jim sends his love to each and every one of our fans." Besides Mayhem Festival, Slipknot are also getting ready to launch their own festival . The inaugural Knotfest will take place Aug. 17 and 18 and ...

Guitarist Jim Root has played a pretty major role in Slipknot's music over the years, but found himself on the sidelines during the writing of The End, So Far.In an interview with Guitar World ...