Earlier this week, Slipknot confirmed that their new album, “The End, So Far,” will be released on Sept. 30 via Roadrunner and is available for preorder. “New Music, new art, and new beginnings,” said M. “Clown” Crahan. “Get ready for the end.” “The End, So Far,” was produced by Slipknot and Joe Barresi. Slipknot’s last album, 2019’s “We Are Not Your Kind,” was the band’s third straight No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Slipknot also released their second single and video from the album, “The Dying Song (Time to Sing),” following the first single, “The Chapeltown Rag,” which came out late last year.
Since announcing the album title, some fans have speculated the Slipknot is referring to the end of their career. Taylor addressed the rumor on stage at Thursday’s show in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He said: “I’ll tell you what, some of you might have heard the news that Slipknot has a new album coming out very, very soon. The name of that album is called ‘The End, So Far’. And for those doomsday motherfuckers who think that Slipknot are gonna break up, that is not the case. This simply represents the end of one moment and the beginning of the rest of our fucking lives. Do you understand what I’m f*cking saying to you out there?”
The 48-year-old Taylor has previously addressed the topic. On the “Someone Who Isn’t Me” podcast he responded to the question of if he would ever get “tired of touring.” He replied: “You know, honestly, if you’d asked me a year ago, I would have said no. But, I mean, just now… I’m just kind of starting to… I’m not young anymore. And as willing as my will is, I’m just beat up, man. I mean, I might as well be 60 in Slipknot years, for Christ’s sake. I don’t know if I would retire. I might step away from Slipknot at some point, just because the way the music is, and that sense of energy, I don’t know if I could be able to do that into my fifties. And I would never want the band to feel like I was holding them back, because I just couldn’t physically do it. So that means I wouldn’t completely quit music; I would probably just step away from Slipknot.”
In a recent interview with Kerrang, Taylor also blasted artists who claim they don’t listen to their own music. “That’s something that I know a lot of artists never admit to – like, ‘Oh, I don’t listen to my own music,’” said Taylor. “How do you know where to go next if you don’t know where you went before? If you just ignore your own f*cking art then you’re just a f*cking d*ckhead – you’re a pretentious c*nt who can’t get out of their own way. And that’s fine – because then they just piss me off so I do what I do (laughs).”
