Going inside the touring production behind Slipknot's We Are Not Your Kind arena tour, as well as the business model and artistic drive that have made them the biggest metal band to emerge in the 21st century.
"I'm a conflicted person. There's a cognitive dissonance going on constantly and I'm trying to find the path that makes the most sense."
Market report shedding light on metal's bold commercial performance in the live industry, speaking to booking agents, managers and festival organisers from around the world about the genre's global appeal, loyal fanbase, and growing future.
An exploration of the fan communities and lifestyles formed around particular bands, told through the accounts of five young superfans.
"I don’t feel gentle. I don’t feel like I want to love myself or anyone else. I felt like I wanted to burn everything down. So that’s what I made the music do."
"In my naivety I knew I was writing kind of a sexy song. But it doesn't click until you watch a stripper at Vinnie Paul's clubhouse dance to it that, oh yeah, this is totally a stripper song."
Record shopping with Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) and Frank Iero (The Future Violents/My Chemical Romance) as both musicians reflect on a lifetime spent in punk rock.
"Whatever happened, you just rolled with it. It didn’t matter if you played well or your gear fucked up, it was just about being there together."
"The northern lights were easy to write about for a few lines, but there's so much going on that your mind gets clouded. But when there is just intense stillness, your mind can't focus on anything other than what you need to write about. I think the reason I wrote the most songs out in Iceland is because I hadn't felt nothingness for a long time."
"In the past I often had a compromised output, because there were lots of people fighting for recognition. For the first time, we've both found our space and our freedom to be artists. We respect each other."
"If you really care about your art, then you've got to accept that it's going to destroy you in the end."
"I drink prosecco onstage all the time and some people find that really funny and weird, but it’s who we are. That’s the message behind Pagan: don’t try to be like the person next to you, just be yourself."
"As annoying as it is to be the OCD guy who carries a lint roller everywhere, there are applicable uses of that. It makes me prolific; I do a lot of shit because otherwise I would go nuts."
Telling bands that they're on course to 'save' rock and metal is a needless burden, stresses Power Trip frontman Riley Gale...
"His music doesn't need a genre to define it, and it doesn't need a generation to define it, either. It's everyday life."
"To some degree, where this record came from is really none of your business."
"I'm prepared for the negative reactions, because I've been getting negative reactions my whole life in metal."
"I don’t hate cops, I hate brutal cops. I don’t hate people, I hate racist people."
“Metaphorically, the main theme of the album is how everything changes. We see ourselves as more and something lasting, but we’re just a blip in comparison to the universe around us. We accept this change, but there’s also this longing for something constant and definitive."
A Scooby Doo-style investigation into Room 309, which lies at the center of Creeper's James Scythe mystery. A case of mistaken identity, goth punks and the incompetence of Ibis hotels.
