Jim Root And Mick Thomson For The World's Best Heavy Metal Guitarists

Mick Thomson dan Jim Root (Twitter @slipknot)

JAKARTA - Two Slipknot guitarists; Jim Root and Mick Thomson were awarded the 'Best Metal Guitarist in the World' by a poll distributed by Music Radar. Both of them got 17 thousand votes.

This number beat other big names such as James Hetfield and Kirk Hammet (Metallica); James "Munky" Shaffer and Brian "Head" Welch (KORN); Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Söderberg (Amon Amarth); Richard Z.Kruspe and Paul Landers (Rammstein); and Phil Sgrosso and Nick Hipa (As I Lay Dying).

There are also names like Sean Long and Mat Welsh (While She Sleeps); Kerry King and Gary Holt (Slayer); Adam Dutkiewicz and Joel Stroetzel (Killswitch Engage); and Alexi Laiho and Daniel Freyberg (Children Of Bodom).

Meanwhile, Jim Root recently reacted to fans saying Slipknot's new album We Are Not Your Kind lacked guitar solos. The Iowa-based numetal band released their sixth studio album in early August and became their first album to top the UK album charts in 18 years.

In an interview on The Art & Span Show, the guitarist talked about a number of Slipknot fans who were disappointed by the lack of solo parts on the album.

"I see a lot of comments, 'where is the guitar solo in this album?' and things like that, "he said. "Yes, obviously, Mick (Thomson) and I really like guitar; we like to play guitar, like to do solos on every song, but (solos) it's not my job."

Root went on to say that he cares more about arrangements and makes good songs from start to finish.

"There is a solo in Spiders, although it's kind of a non-traditional solo, but that's what I love. What I mean is I try to go out of the box and approach guitar playing in a way I never did with a song like Spiders. It's because of Clown (a percussionist). as well as the leader of Slipknot) who made the song and it didn't come from my mind, so it was difficult for me to process it. "

We Are Not Your Kind sold 118 thousand units in the United States in its first week of release, of which 102,000 were album sales (not singles). This achievement successfully landed this album at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

We Are Not Your Kind also knocked out Ed Sheeran's No.6 Collaborations Project from the top spot of the UK Offical Album Chart after recording 31,800 sales in its first week of release.

For Slipknot, We Are Not Your Kind is their fifth album to successfully break into the top five in a row. To date, Iowa is the only album to hit the top of the UK album charts in September 2001.

This feat made We Are Not Your Kind one of five heavy metal albums to reach the top of the UK charts this decade. Other albums include; Book The Book Of Souls and The Final Frontier from Iron Maiden, Hail To The King (Avenged Sevenfold), and 13 (Black Sabbath).

The massive sales of We Are Not Your Kind were driven by the exchange of tickets to Slipknot's concert tickets with album bonuses. This has been done since the end of last October.

No less important, Slipknot will be one of the headliners at the Hammersonic event which will be held March 27-28 2020 at Carnival Ancol Beach. Here, we will prove for ourselves whether Jim Root and Mick Thomson deserve the title of World's Best Guitarist or not.