Slipknot recently 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 frontman Corey Taylor also records solo albums and fronts rock band Stone Sour, who last performed following 2017’s “Hydrograd” album. During a recent interview with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM, Taylor addressed Stone Sour’s long hiatus when Trunk asked if he had any updates on the band. “Nothing’s changed,” he said, before elaborating after being pressed if he might revisit Stone Sour in the future. “I don’t know. The solo thing’s more where my heart is, to be honest.”
Taylor continued: “To me, I’ve done the time doing stuff in a — for lack of a better term — band situation. And the reason I stick with Slipknot is because that, to me, is the one that kind of started everything. But Stone Sour, there’s still so much drama and issues [between the members]. To me, it’s just not something I desire to do. And songs in Stone Sour that I want to play are the ones that I wrote in the first place. So to me, I would rather go out with a group of dudes who I’ve known forever and have a great time playing these songs and have the audience enjoy it because they see a bunch of dudes up there enjoying it than try to force issues on an audience that nobody really wants to be a part of, let’s put it that way.”
Taylor said he’s saddened the group has been dormant so long. “It’s been a bitter pill to swallow, but I’ve also reached an age where I refuse to waste any time with people who I don’t enjoy being with, let’s put it that way. And that’s saying more than I actually should be saying.When it comes to my bands, I know in the past I’ve been very open to talking about it. But I’m very reticent about talking about things that deal with people who I care about. And whether there are issues or not, I still care about them. So it’s tough. I have to rein myself in ’cause I’m not gonna throw anybody under the bus because nine times out of 10 I could be the problem too.”
“I just know that at this point in my life I have more reason to love the solo thing than I do to try and do something with Stone Sour,” Taylor added. “Now, am I saying that it’ll never happen? No, because you never know. Something might come up and we could get an opportunity, and we could get an opportunity to do something for charity, and we all get together and we do something really, really cool. But my immediate plans right now — there’s no Stone Sour in the future.”
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