Mick Thomson

Mick Thomson is the kind of guitarist who makes you forget you're supposed to be headbanging — you're too busy staring at his hands in disbelief. As Slipknot's #7, he's been one half of a dual-guitar assault that helped define what heavy metal sounded like in the 2000s and beyond, from the relentless chug of Iowa to the more layered textures of All Hope Is Gone and .5: The Gray Chapter. What I love about him is that he's never tried to be a guitar hero in the showy sense — no endless solos for their own sake, just locked-in, purposeful riffing that serves the song's brutality. The fact that this guy grew up in Iowa and found his way into one of the biggest metal bands on the planet through sheer dedication to death metal is genuinely inspiring. Quiet offstage, ferocious on it — that contrast is very Slipknot, and Mick might be the purest embodiment of it.

Name (English)

Mick Thomson

Name (Japanese)

ミック・トムソン

Reading

みっく・とむそん

Born

November 3, 1973 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Ox

Origin

Iowa, United States

Occupation

guitarist

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3

Tags

• Iowa
• guitarist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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