• Grammys 2016 Best Rock Album Nominees, Who Should/Will Win: Can Highly Suspect Beat James Bay?

    The Best Rock Album nominations for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards are quite the mixed bag. You have the AAA-friendly sound of James Bay and Death Cab for Cutie battling against the pure rock of Highly Suspect against the abrasiveness of Slipknot and the high concepts of Muse's Drones. How to compare five albums that, at the end of the day, could not be any more different from each other?

  • Slipknot Explains the Masks in BBC Documentary 'Artsnight,' Talks Eminem, Trent Reznor

    All nine members of Slipknot are rarely seen in public without their masks, and in a new BBC documentary, band members Corey Taylor and Shawn Crahan will finally explain why they wear them. They also talk Trent Reznor and Eminem in the new documentary, entitled 'Artsnight,' which encourages “stepping out of our psychological skins” for those featured.

  • Slipknot's Corey Taylor on Controversial Candidate Donald Trump in New Interview

    Slipknot's Corey Taylor has strong opinions on controversial candidate Donald Trump, and all other presidential candidates in the upcoming election. In a new interview, the front man goes as far as to compare the staunch Republican candidate to David Duke, former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. He also talks the other candidates in the running, including Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

  • Slipknot's Corey Taylor Punches WWE Wrestler Baron Corbin at Aftershock Festival [WATCH]

    Slipknot's frontman Corey Taylor has never been one to hold back his anger, but it came to a head when he sucker-punched WWE wrestler Baron Corbin this past Friday (October 23). The two came to blows at the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, California. Taylor is also reportedly a huge wrestling fan and had been engaging in nasty exchanges with the wrestler for some time.

  • Slipknot's Next Album: On 'Sgt. Pepper,' 'Purple Rain,' 'The Wall' Scale(?)

    Slipknot took more than six years between releases 'All Hope Is Gone' and '.5: The Gray Chapter' but it's already scheming its next album: An epic double-album on the scale of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' or The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.' Frontman Corey Taylor also threw out Prince's 'Purple Rain' as a comparison point, as he plans of having a full-length film to accompany the music. Oh?

  • Australia's Northlane Opens Up Metalcore to Wider Skies on 'Node'

    Society always celebrates the records that top the Billboard 200 album chart. Back of The Billboards is a Music Times weekly segment that looks at the opposite end: the new record that finished closest to the back of the Billboard 200 for the previous week. We hope to give a fighting chance to the bands you haven't heard of. This week we look at 'Blacked Out,' the new album from Northlane, a metalcore group relatively unknown to American listeners but well-publicized in their homeland of Australia.

  • James Taylor, Tony Bennett and Tom Petty: Longest Streaks Before A No. 1 Album

    James Taylor is a legend. The dude's been around for nearly 50 years. He's seen fire and he's seen rain. But there was one thing that the songwriter never saw during his lengthy career in music: A no. 1 record. That finally changed this week when 'Before This World,' his first album of original material in more than 13 years, peaked at the top of the Billboard 200. That got us at Music Times wondering...what performer took the longest to get their first no. 1 album? We ranked the Top 5, from "least" years to most..including Tom Petty, Tony Bennett and more.
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