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Perth Now
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Slipknot reportedly closing in on $120 million sale of entire music catalogue
Slipknot are reportedly in talks to sell their entire back catalogue for $120 million. According to a scoop from Billboard Pro, the masked metal titans are on the verge of sealing a high-stakes deal with HarbourView Equity Partners. Said to be in the final stages, it would see Corey Taylor's band hand over ownership rights to both their publishing and master recording royalties for all of their releases since their self-titled 1999 debut. However, it's reported that any new music wouldn't be part of the sale. Slipknot's hits include Wait and Bleed, Duality, and Psychosocial. It comes after the group left their long-time label, Roadrunner Records, in 2022. Slipknot's last studio album was 2022's The End, So Far. While the band have yet to comment publicly, the move follows a growing trend of artists cashing in on their musical archives. Just last month, Kelly Clarkson sold a portion of her music catalogue to the same investment company. The 43-year-old pop star decided to sell some of her most acclaimed and recognisable hits, including Since U Been Gone, Because of You, Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You), and Behind These Hazel Eyes, to HarbourView Equity Partners. Kelly said in a statement: "My music is such a huge part of my journey – not just professionally, but personally. Knowing these songs will continue to be heard and discovered by new generations means everything to me. I'm grateful to HarbourView for valuing and supporting this catalogue the way they do." The likes of Queen, KISS, Pink Floyd, Stevie Nicks, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young have also landed mega-bucks for their songs.
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
"One of the scariest songs I ever heard." Slipknot's Corey Taylor pays tribute to Black Sabbath, reveals the song he listens to so he can "go some place mentally."
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has paid tribute to Black Sabbath ahead of the metal icons' final show in Birmingham tomorrow night. While Slipknot are one of the few giant metal bands to not be playing the stacked bill at Villa Park, he and his bandmates have been profoundly influenced by Sabbath all the same, as he explains to the BBC in an interview published earlier this week. "Sabbath gave us the blueprint, Sabbath gave us the recipe," he explains. "They gave us the cookbook, man. The mystique was in the lyrics. It was in the sound. It was in the way that everything was just a little darker." Taylor describes Sabbath's terrifying, eponymous track, taken from the self-titled debut album released on February 13 1970 and generally considered the ground zero of heavy metal, as "one of the scariest songs I ever heard," adding that he plays it when he "wants to go someplace mentally". "I don't have to look for, you know, Damien Thorn [the lead character and antagonist of classic 1976 horror The Omen]. I don't have to look for Mercyful Fate. "I go back to the beginning. I go back to Black Sabbath, the song and the rest is history." Featuring Sabbath themselves playing their final ever show - as well as their first show with all four original members of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward for 20 years - the Back To The Beginning extravaganza will also feature appearances from Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Tool, Slayer, Mastodon, Gojira and many more. It will be streamed via the Back To The Beginning website.
Daily Record
02-07-2025
- Daily Record
Knife thugs jailed after stabbing man in stomach in street murder bid
Corey Taylor and Kevin Kelly were sentenced to nine years. Two armed thugs who brandished knives as they chased a man along the street before stabbing him in a murder bid were jailed for nine years each today. Corey Taylor and Kevin Kelly pursued their victim before he was wounded in a street attack in Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. The pair earlier stood trial having denied the attempted murder of Craig Campbell but were found guilty of the crime. A judge told them at the High Court in Edinburgh: "The jury convicted you of being involved in a concerted attack with weapons which resulted in the attempted murder of one of your victims." Judge John Morris KC said: "Both of you have atrocious criminal records for violent offending." He told the pair that they represented a danger to the public and in the circumstances a substantial prison sentence was required. The judge also ordered that they should be under supervision in the community for a further two year period when they will be on licence and can be returned to jail if they breach its conditions. Taylor and Kelly, both prisoners, were convicted of assaulting and attempting to murder Mr Campbell on December 23 in 2023 at Duncairn Avenue, in Bonnybridge. They chased him while brandishing knives, attempting to strike him and striking him on the body with a knife to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and impairment and to the danger of his life. The victim was stabbed in the abdomen. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. Taylor, 25, had been freed under three separate bail orders at the time with the most recent granted at Falkirk Sheriff Court three days before the murder bid. During the trial he maintained that he acted in self defence and under provocation but that was rejected by the jury. The violent pair were also convicted of assaulting a second man, Alan Fulton, on the same day in the same street. They chased him while brandishing knives during a drink and drug fuelled confrontation. Defence counsel Wendy Culross, for Taylor, said he had "a relevant and concerning record of offending" and it was accepted a significant custodial sentence was inevitable. She said he very much regretted what occurred and continued to express remorse over it. She told the court that Taylor suffered adverse childhood experiences and added: "He has used substances and alcohol from a young age. "He was working with addiction services in the community prior to his incarceration." Defence counsel George Gebbie, for Kelly, said the 27-year-old was convicted of attempted murder "in a classic concert situation". He said it was clear Kelly did not strike any blow to the victim of the crime. The judge made a non harassment order prohibiting them contacting or attempting to contact the victim of the attempted murder indefinitely.
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Sabbath gave bands like Slipknot the blueprint'
With Black Sabbath's final concert just days away, metal bands and musicians explain how the band influenced the course of their lives - and paved the way for a new generation of artists. "Sabbath gave us the blueprint, Sabbath gave us the recipe. They gave us the cookbook, man," says Slipknot's Corey Taylor. "The mystique was in the lyrics. It was in the sound. It was in the way that everything was just a little darker." The song that shares the band's name is "one of the scariest songs I ever heard" says Taylor, which he plays when he "wants to go someplace mentally". "I don't have to look for, you know, [The Omen's] Damien Thorn. I don't have to look for Mercyful Fate. "I go back to the beginning. I go back to Black Sabbath, the song and the rest is history." The frontman is among musicians paying tribute to the band ahead of their final performance on Saturday. The all-day Back to the Beginning event at Villa Park in Birmingham on Saturday will feature Metallica, Slayer, Halestorm, Lamb Of God, Anthrax and Mastodon among many others. Halestorm's frontwoman Lzzy Hale says she would not be the singer, songwriter or guitarist she is today without the influence of the band. "For whatever reason Black Sabbath caught me early on and it was something that I didn't even know how to describe, but I understood it," she says. Being part of the show "wasn't even on my bucket list of dreams," she adds, "because it was an indefatigable dream to even consider because it was impossible." Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Black Sabbath, initially called Earth, emerged from a "vibrant music scene" in 1960s Birmingham according to their first manager Jim Simpson. Setting up Big Bear Records in 1968, he had invited the foursome to play at Henry's Blueshouse at The Crown pub on Hill Street, where they were an instant hit with punters. "There was much more attention paid to them than the average band," he recalls. The four started out playing blues, before turning their attention to writing their own material. The band had initially made a "horrendous racket," adds guitarist Iommi, "but it worked out in the end, it was great." They were a "product of the time and a product of the city" says Jez Collins, founder of Birmingham Music Archive. "I don't think it would have happened from any area other than Aston with all of those foundries and factories and the smelts and the bomb sites," he adds. Slipknot's Taylor agrees. "One hundred percent Iowa is the reason why Slipknot was Slipknot and the Midlands are absolutely the reason Sabbath was Sabbath," he says. "You are where you come from." The band's distinctive sound, which helped propel them to worldwide success, was partially down to Iommi's earlier job at a steel factory. Planning to leave work in order to take up a place with another band, he had lost the tips of two fingers on a steel-cutting machine. "After the accident I went to various doctors and they said 'you'd better pack up really, you're not going to be able to play,'" he says. "But I wouldn't accept that," he adds, describing how he had fashioned new fingertips from a melted down Fairy Liquid bottle and parts of a leather jacket. Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford, who grew up a few miles away in Walsall, picks up the legendary story. "When Tony had his accident, and had to detune some of the strings, things started to get lower and heavier, and that's when the magic really started," he says. "And certainly for me and for all of us in Priest, from day one, those bands and more were a tremendous influence to us all." Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple were also forefathers of the movement, but it was Sabbath that "cemented it," adds Taylor. He and other artists have been speaking to BBC Radio WM for a new documentary, Forging Metal, looking at the history of the genre. Black Sabbath at Villa Park: All you need to know City's shrines to Black Sabbath and where to find them Barney Greenway, lead singer of Napalm Death, also from Birmingham, says the "density and the depth of the music they were making was completely new". "There were bands doing darkly heavy music at the time, but arguably nothing like Black Sabbath. "Heaviness and musical extremity before that was even thought of," he says. The eyes of the world will be on Birmingham for the Villa Park gig which is a "profoundly important centre for metal," says city academic Dr David Gange, author of the Why Metal Matters project. But, he adds, "metal was global from its origins, with indigenous Americans such as [guitarist and songwriter] Link Wray, and others, particularly from Latin America, being crucial to it's emergence". The genre had spawned "literally hundreds of sub genres, probably thousands," he explains, with some now being used to promote social and environmental activism, in far flung corners of the globe. "There's an absolutely wonderful band in the very, very far north of Finland, called Unearthly Rites, who are as heavy as can be," he says. "They are crusty, they are dirty, they are just glorious, their key thing is protesting open-pit mining, and their musical heritage runs directly back to Birmingham bands like Napalm Death and Bolt Thrower". Many of the "most interesting" artists taking metal forward are currently women or non-binary people, the Birmingham University history lecturer added. Birmingham's Debbie Gough, who fronts metal band Heriot, says the scene is "the most diverse space" she has ever known it to be. Heriot has just completed its second headline tour of the UK and are about to embark on a 32-date tour of North America supporting "super influential" Trivium. "I feel very welcome and feel like it's a very accepting space and a very informed space as well which has allowed for lots of different people in bands to experience music," she says. There had been a marked change since the Covid-19 pandemic, she claimed. "Before that I could maybe count on one hand the amount of times there had been female crew, or other bands with females on the line-up, and now nobody even flinches, which is super cool. "I'm just overjoyed about the blueprint of who gets to be in a metal band has just been completely destroyed and anybody can be in any band now - and that's really amazing to see," she added. Emily Drummond, vocalist for the all-female Birmingham band, Cherrydead says she is also "absolutely buzzing" about the future of metal. "Not just in the West Midlands, all across the UK and it's something that we are so glad to be a part of," she adds. Cherrydead are among acts playing a BBC Radio WM celebration gig Metal in the Midlands. She says there had been a "real shift" for women within the scene. Although not perfect, she added, "there is a transformation coming and I feel things have really moved in that sense". The metal scene faces "all kinds of crises", Dr Gange says, with many music venues under threat. "But metal thrives off crisis, metal is the music for how we process crisis and the bands are doing it in such exciting ways," he adds. "It's a profoundly supportive community, the mosh pit itself is an allegory for all the best things in life - you give yourself total, total freedom, let yourself fall over, let anything happen with the complete knowledge that someone is going to reach out and pick you up if you go down." BBC Radio WM's Forging Metal will be available on BBC Sounds from Friday 4 July. Follow BBC Birmingham on Facebook, X and Instagram. 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BBC News
02-07-2025
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- BBC News
'Black Sabbath gave bands like Slipknot the blueprint'
With Black Sabbath's final concert just days away, metal bands and musicians explain how the band influenced the course of their lives - and paved the way for a new generation of artists."Sabbath gave us the blueprint, Sabbath gave us the recipe. They gave us the cookbook, man," says Slipknot's Corey Taylor."The mystique was in the lyrics. It was in the sound. It was in the way that everything was just a little darker."The song that shares the band's name is "one of the scariest songs I ever heard" says Taylor, which he plays when he "wants to go someplace mentally". "I don't have to look for, you know, [The Omen's] Damien Thorn. I don't have to look for merciful fate. "I go back to the beginning. I go back to Black Sabbath, the song and the rest is history." The frontman is among musicians paying tribute to the band ahead of their final performance on all-day Back to the Beginning event at Villa Park on Saturday will feature Metallica, Slayer, Halestorm, Lamb Of God, Anthrax and Mastodon among many frontwoman Lzzy Hale says she would not be the singer, songwriter or guitarist she is today without the influence of the band."For whatever reason Black Sabbath caught me early on and it was something that I didn't even know how to describe, but I understood it," she part of the show "wasn't even on my bucket list of dreams," she adds, "because it was an indefatigable dream to even consider because it was impossible." Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward sold more than 75 million records Sabbath, initially called Earth, emerged from a "vibrant music scene" in 1960s Birmingham according to their first manager Jim Simpson. Setting up Big Bear Records in 1968, he had invited the foursome to play at Henry's Blueshouse at The Crown pub on Hill Street, where they were an instant hit with punters. 'A horrendous racket' "There was much more attention paid to them than the average band," he recalls. The four started out playing blues, before turning their attention to writing their own band had initially made a "horrendous racket," adds guitarist Iommi, "but it worked out in the end, it was great." They were a "product of the time and a product of the city" says Jez Collins, founder of Birmingham Music Archive."I don't think it would have happened from any area other than Aston with all of those foundries and factories and the smelts and the bomb sites," he adds. Slipknot's Taylor agrees."One hundred percent Iowa is the reason why Slipknot was Slipknot and the Midlands are absolutely the reason Sabbath was Sabbath," he says."You are where you come from." The band's distinctive sound, which helped propel them to worldwide success, was partially down to Iommi's earlier job at a steel to leave work in order to take up a place with another band, he had lost the tips of two fingers on a steel-cutting machine. "After the accident I went to various doctors and they said 'you'd better pack up really, you're not going to be able to play,'" he says."But I wouldn't accept that," he adds, describing how he had fashioned new fingertips from a melted down Fairy Liquid bottle and parts of a leather jacket. Start of the magic Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford, who grew up a few miles away in Walsall, picks up the legendary story."When Tony had his accident, and had to detune some of the strings, things started to get lower and heavier, and that's when the magic really started," he says."And certainly for me and for all of us in Priest, from day one, those bands and more were a tremendous influence to us all."Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple were also forefathers of the movement, but it was Sabbath that "cemented it," adds and other artists have been speaking to BBC Radio WM for a new documentary, Forging Metal, looking at the history of the genre. Barney Greenway, lead singer of Napalm Death, also from Birmingham, says the "density and the depth of the music they were making was completely new". "There were bands doing darkly heavy music at the time, but arguably nothing like Black Sabbath. "Heaviness and musical extremity before that was even thought of," he says. The eyes of the world will be on Birmingham for the Villa Park gig which is a "profoundly important centre for metal," says city academic Dr David Gange, author of the Why Metal Matters he adds, "metal was global from its origins, with indigenous Americans such as [guitarist and songwriter] Link Wray, and others, particularly from Latin America, being crucial to it's emergence". Crusty, dirty and glorious The genre had spawned "literally hundreds of sub genres, probably thousands," he explains, with some now being used to promote social and environmental activism, in far flung corners of the globe. "There's an absolutely wonderful band in the very, very far north of Finland, called Unearthly Rites, who are as heavy as can be," he says."They are crusty, they are dirty, they are just glorious, their key thing is protesting open-pit mining, and their musical heritage runs directly back to Birmingham bands like Napalm Death and Bolt Thrower". Many of the "most interesting" artists taking metal forward are currently women or non-binary people, the Birmingham University history lecturer added. Birmingham's Debbie Gough, who fronts metal band Heriot, says the scene is "the most diverse space" she has ever known it to be. Heriot has just completed its second headline tour of the UK and are about to embark on a 32-date tour of North America supporting "super influential" Trivium. "I feel very welcome and feel like it's a very accepting space and a very informed space as well which has allowed for lots of different people in bands to experience music," she says. There had been a marked change since the Covid-19 pandemic, she claimed. "Before that I could maybe count on one hand the amount of times there had been female crew, or other bands with females on the line-up, and now nobody even flinches, which is super cool."I'm just overjoyed about the blueprint of who gets to be in a metal band has just been completely destroyed and anybody can be in any band now - and that's really amazing to see," she added. Emily Drummond, vocalist for the all-female Birmingham band, Cherrydead says she is also "absolutely buzzing" about the future of metal. "Not just in the West Midlands, all across the UK and it's something that we are so glad to be a part of," she are among acts playing a BBC Radio WM celebration gig Metal in the says there had been a "real shift" for women within the scene. Although not perfect, she added, "there is a transformation coming and I feel things have really moved in that sense". Mosh pit freedom The metal scene faces "all kinds of crises", Dr Gange says, with many music venues under threat."But metal thrives off crisis, metal is the music for how we process crisis and the bands are doing it in such exciting ways," he adds."It's a profoundly supportive community, the mosh pit itself is an allegory for all the best things in life - you give yourself total, total freedom, let yourself fall over, let anything happen with the complete knowledge that someone is going to reach out and pick you up if you go down." BBC Radio WM's Forging Metal will be available on BBC Sounds from Friday 4 July.
