Slipknot’s new album, “The End, So Far,” will be released on Friday, Sept. 30. Singer Corey Taylor previously explained the title of the album and addressed rumors that it meant the band was breaking up. “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 motherf*ckers 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 f*cking lives. Do you understand what I’m f*cking saying to you out there?”
In a new interview with Music Radar, Slipknot guitarist Jim Root talked about the album’s lyrical themes. “Everything is so bizarre and so bananas, I don’t even know what’s going on with the world right now,” he said. “I couldn’t even tell you what is going on with the culture, because, being locked up for two years, and then you come out and everything’s upside down, it’s really… I don’t get it.”
“I thought rock ‘n’ roll, and punk and metal, and all that stuff was meant to be anti-establishment and against the man, and now it seems more and more like, ‘Obey!’ and do as you’re told sorta sh*t, and that seems backwards to me,” he continued. “I don’t know if I am the only one that feels that way. I haven’t really talked to anyone in the band about it, ’cause we’re just trying to get through these tours, through the protocol and the C*VID sh*t, and all that.”
Root then referenced Rage Against The Machine seemingly implying that the band is being hypocritical. “We haven’t really checked in with one another to see how we’re doing, how we’re feeling about the state of the world and all that, but when I hear a band that’s saying ‘F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me’ telling me to do what the government tells me to do, that seems backwards to me.”
Rage Against The Machine’s mega-hit, “Killing In The Name,” features the lyrics, “F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me,” repeated many times. “I think people are just so f*cking sick and tired of sociopolitical content because you are just hammered with it, no matter if it’s a news cycle, a feed on social media, or any of that sh*t,” Root said. “What I get, when we go out and play shows, is people just don’t f*cking care about that anymore. People have their issues, and people have their things they are concerned about. Yes, of course, and they always will. But for the most part people just wanna shut off, come out and forget about the world for a while, and they wanna have fun.”
Last year, Skillet frontman John Cooper also took a shot at Rage Against The Machine for a similar reason. “I mean, you’ve got Rage Against The Machine telling people that if they don’t get a vaccine… Rage Against The Machine has become the machine. It’s crazy. I’m, like, wait a minute — I’m the revolutionary here? I’m the revolutionary and Rage Against The Machine is just ‘government rock’ now.”
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