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 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. In a new interview with Kerrang, singer Corey Taylor 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).”
Taylor also talked about his love for creating music. “I’ve said it since day one: if I didn’t want to do it, I wouldn’t do it. The stuff that I do, I only do because it’s what I’m passionate about. And I’m only as good at what I do because I’m inspired by the music that I’m lucky enough to be on. So, shame on me for taking this long to really tell them how much I f*cking love the music that we get to do – but better late than never. It’s rad that after all these years, we’re still fans of each other. We still get on each other’s nerves, don’t get me f*cking wrong, and we’re still *ssholes! But at the same time, there’s no other group of people that I would rather go onstage with and do this f*cking music, man.”
Drummer Jay Weinberg told Wisconsin’s WZOR radio station: “We wanna push ourselves, and the only way you’re gonna push yourself is to change it up, make yourself uncomfortable in situations so you can become comfortable in those situations. And so I think pushing what we do to the extreme — you wanna kind of level up, for lack of a better term, each time you kind of go back to the drawing table.”
