On album and onstage, Slipknot guitarists Jim Root and Mick Thomson work together as a team. Both play rhythm and lead tracks, and both feed off the energy and excitement of the other’s musicianship.

Sometimes a guitar you ordered gets lost in the mail. Other times it gets accidentally delivered to Jim Root of Slipknot despite the fact that you are currently located in Qatar. Shit happens, right?

Fender Telecasters aren’t generally associated with heavy metal, but that didn’t stop Slipknot’s Jim Root from slapping his name on one in 2010. The result was a guitar that enraged purists but was ...