Slipknot has released their new album, “The End, So Far,” and it has topped the U.K. chart marking the band’s third No. 1 in the country. The album was released on Sept. 30 via Roadrunner, and it’s the final album Slipknot will release with the label since first singing in 1998.
“Roadrunner is not what it used to be,” singer Corey Taylor said. “It’s not even a shadow of what it used to be. So there’s no real urgency for us to stick with them to do anything. And because all of the people that we started with are gone, and they were fired in a very unceremonious way to the point where the last couple years.”
The vinyl version of the new album has a sticker over the album title on the cover. If you peel it off, the original jacket has the title “The End For Now…” below the band’s name. A Reddit user posted a photo with the mistake and several other fans have confirmed the error.
“The End, So Far was the correct name. Somebody f*cked up and didn’t double check with us,” Taylor said in a recent Reddit AMA. The PRP also reports that the misprints have the songs “The Dying Song (Time To Sing)” named “Dying Song” and “Hive Mind” as “Hivemind.”
Corey Taylor explained the album’s title in an interview with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM and confirmed it had nothing to do with rumors that the band was ending. “Nothing sells albums like drama, let’s put it that way, and even drama that doesn’t even come from us; it just comes from the fans,” Taylor said. “But at the same time, I kind of started saying onstage… explaining what the title is. It’s the fact that it’s… It’s the end so far, which just means it’s the end of one era and the start of the next.“
“If you look at all of our favorite bands — [Iron] Maiden, Metallica, [Black] Sabbath; you can even talk about Judas Priest; all these bands that we grew up on, loving; and our friends in Anthrax as well — every one of those bands has had different eras in their career; it’s never been a straight line,” Taylor explained. “There’s no through line except for the members. And every era comes to a natural end and then it’s the next one. So that’s what the title reflects.”
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