Here are some excerpts from an interview Big Cheese Magazine conducted with Corey Taylor.

"I remember walking out on to the second stage here (West Palm Beach, FL) at Ozzfest in '99," Corey says, recalling Slipknot's first major tour: "People heard the noise and started running over the hills towards us. It was insane. When we first started playing there were probably about five hundred kids. By the end of it the entire field was packed, and people were just staring at us. They were like 'What is this?' And it was like that every show..."

And it's good to hear Taylor insist that the journey's not over yet. Every previous album (including 'IOWA' which caused shockwaves by going straight into the UK charts at number one, abover other new entries 'Is This It' by The Strokes and 'kingsize' by pop group Five) has been released amidst rumours that it might be the band's last, but Corey says Slipknot will definitely be making a fifth album.

Roadrunner Records will release the "Roadrunner United The Concert" DVD on December 9, 2008. The double-disc set hits shelves almost three years to the day after the now-legendary concert held at the Nokia Theater in Times Square in New York City on December 15, 2005. The show — which celebrated the release of the groundbreaking album "Roadrunner United: The All-Star Sessions" featuring 56 musicians from 44 different bands spanning the label's entire 25-year history — enjoyed a cult, "You had to be there!" status in the metal and hard rock scenes and now Roadrunner is giving the label's diehard followers a chance to witness the event for themselves.

"Roadrunner United The Concert" captures the festive intensity of the evening. A house band, featuring members of core Roadrunner acts such as SLIPKNOT, SEPULTURA and MACHINE HEAD, performed hits and classics culled from the entirety of the Roadrunner catalog. Some of the highlights included SLIPKNOT/STONE SOUR vocalist Corey Taylor performing "Bother" with LIFE OF AGONY's Keith Caputo; former KILLSWITCH ENGAGE singer Jesse Leach dueting with current vocalist Howard Jones for KSE's "My Last Serenade"; an assortment of frontmen handling vocals for staple songs like SLIPKNOT's "(Sic)" and "Surfacing", MACHINE HEAD's "Davidian", KING DIAMOND's "Abigail", SEPULTURA's "Refuse/Resist", TYPE O NEGATIVE's "Black No. 1", SOULFLY's "Eye For an Eye" as well as four songs from the "Roadrunner United: The All-Star Sessions" album. The double disc set also includes a 75-minute documentary, complete with interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, making it an even more intimate, fan-friendly experience!

A clip of Robb Flynn (MACHINE HEAD), Joey Jordison (SLIPKNOT), Corey Taylor (SLIPKNOT, STONE SOUR), Dino Cazares (FEAR FACTORY) and Roy Mayorga (STONE SOUR, ex-SOULFLY) discussing playing the SLIPKNOT song "Surfacing" at the "Roadrunner United" concert can be viewed below.

SLIPKNOT - "Surfacing"

Robert Flynn - zpěv
Andreas Kisser - kytara
Dino Cazares - kytara
Adam Duce - baskytara
Roy Mayorga - bicí (v té době "Rata" ještě netušil, kde bude brzy drtit škopky)

SLIPKNOT - "Sic"

Corey Taylor - zpěv
Andreas Kisser - kytara
Dino Cazares / Scott Ian - kytara
Paul Gray - baskytara
Joey Jordison - bicí

Check out some videos and setlist from the October 14 Osaka show!

Setlist:

01. Intro
02. Surfacing
03. The Blister Exists
04. Get This
05. Before I Forget
06. Pulse Of The Maggots
07. Disasterpiece
08. Dead Memories
09. Psychosocial
10. The Heretic Anthem
11. Prosthetics
12. Spit It Out
13. Duality
14. Only One
15. People=Shit
16. (sic)

Videos:

Get This:


Before I Forget:

According to MTV's Headbanger's Blog, DIRTY LITTLE RABBITS, the band featuring SLIPKNOT percussionist M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan, has inked a deal with The End Records. "I've waited my whole life to meet a label like The End, and it seems like, artistically, the people involved in that are almost identical to my mind, and that's why we're able to do this pretty easily because it's really been developed around the art," Crahan said. "It's not about the music business. When we started out, we didn't have any expectations or care what people were gonna try and do or if they understood it. There was just no will to even be a part of this industry. Then next thing you know, two years later, here I am."

DIRTY LITTLE RABBITS is tentatively planning on releasing a new EP in January and a full-length in April. The EP was recorded at Sound Farm Studios, which is the same place SLIPKNOT recorded its latest CD, "All Hope is Gone".

DIRTY LITTLE RABBITS has thus far released a three-song EP, "Breeding", which was supported by a 27-date U.S. tour with STONE SOUR that took the group from Fargo, North Dakota, up to New England, and down the East Coast to the southern reaches of Florida.

Check out some live photos from the October 11 Tokyo show:

Get a rare glimpse into SLIPKNOT's backstage ritual as they transform into metal maniacs in a video clip (see below) at Roadrunner Records' YouTube channel. The teaser clip is part of a feature showing on Music Choice's "Rocktober," a month-long programming and marketing campaign dedicated to rock's hottest established and emerging artists.

The "Rocktober" video programming on Music Choice features SLIPKNOT on "BIG!", the music network's new original series featuring the life and work of artists who are the "Best In the Game."

Check out this "Disasterpiece" video from San Bernardino, CA (Rockstar Mayhem Tour):

UK-based author Joel McIver's twelfth book, "The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists", will be published globally in January 2009 by Jawbone Press, the world's leading publisher of guitar titles. Featuring a foreword by Glen Benton of DEICIDE, the book takes the reader in reverse order from No. 100 to No. 1, the greatest metal guitarist of all time. McIver — a regular contributor to the UK's Total Guitar magazine, the biggest guitar mag in Europe — based his selection on the technical ability and historical significance of each player and adds that all generations of metal are covered in the book, with the oldest guitarist aged 61 and the youngest a mere 26.

McIver told BLABBERMOUTH.NET, "The idea for this book came to me a couple of years ago after I read a list of the supposed 100 best metal guitarists of all time in a popular guitar magazine that should really know better. The list contained all these non-metal guitarists like Neil Young and Kurt Cobain, so I thought, 'Fuck this!' and wrote my own list, which became an 80,000-word book. The 100 guys I've included are pure metal: there's no-one taken from the hard rock world, so as much as I respect Randy Rhoads, Angus Young, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Ritchie Blackmore and the rest of the rock shredders, they'll have to wait for another book. 'The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists' features musicians from heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal, black metal, power metal, doom metal and grindcore bands and that's it!"

He added: "I'll post a few of the entries to my website before too long, but to make things a bit more interesting, let's see if anybody can correctly predict my Top 5 players. The first 10 people who email me with the correct five guys will get a free signed copy."

The shot of McIver with Kerry King of SLAYER and Mick Thomson of SLIPKNOT, both of whom feature in the book:

Kerry King (Slayer) // Joel McIver // Mick Thomson (Slipknot)