After spending most of the '90s as a member of the Mid-West thrash and alt-metal scene with Atomic Opera and Stone Sour, Jim Root joined Des Moines, Iowa nu-metal-meets-groove-metal outfit Slipknot.

"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 ...

“After a while, you're listening to things and you're hearing them different because they're evolving so much from where they began.” He further explained that this sometimes leads to him guessing ...