Slipknot guitarist Jim Root is planning his own solo project, using his time in quarantine to compile new ideas. Root revealed the idea to Loudwire during an exclusive interview, detailing his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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For OG Slipknot fans, there’s no denying that some of their earliest work was their heaviest. It was just pure, authentically raw metal. And as fans, we know it isn’t always easy for bands to keep up ...

Slipknot guitarist Jim Root is ready for the band’s touring to wind down, primarily because he’s anxious to get back in the creative headspace of making a new album. Root, who had spoken last December ...

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, ...

It’s hard to imagine Slipknot without guitarist Jim Root in the mix, but, according to him, he almost didn’t join the band. In a new interview, the guitarist remembers what he was doing when he got a ...

"But I think we work really well under pressure in some cases, in most cases." "I'm still trying to figure that out," he confessed. "I think that's the eternal [mystery] because, with writing, there's ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - Jim Root will be sworn in as Macon County sheriff on June 21, the sheriff's office announced. Root, who a judge ruled winner of the 2018 Macon County sheriff's race in May of ...