Three years have passed since the release of the last album We Are Not Your Kind in 2019, and Slipknot are returning with a new track “The Dying Song (Time To Sing)” and announce a new album “The End, So Far”, which is due to be released on September 30 on the Roadrunner. There is also a video clip for the new song, which can be viewed below. The video was directed by the musician of the group M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan. The song turned out to be quite powerful, but at the same time very melodic. The director’s insane energy was transferred to the energetic tempo of the song with a powerful and melodic chorus.
Speaking about the upcoming album, Crahan stated:
New Music, new art, and new beginnings. Get ready for the end.
The album “The End, So Far”, produced by the band itself and Joe Barresi and is available for pre-order today. The album will consist of 12 tracks.
In February, vocalist Corey Taylor spoke in an interview about the musical direction of the new material:
It’s really killer, man. It’s darker than We Are Not Your Kind, but there’s a ton of melody. I’ve been telling everybody that it’s like a heavier version of Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses). It’s got so many textures and layers. The heavy stuff has attack but the melodic stuff you can just sink your teeth in; there’s a lot of great melodies and hooks. I’m really, really excited for people to hear it.
In March, the band’s drummer Jay Weinberg spoke about the musical direction of the band’s next album:
I would say we kind of turned up the dials on experimentation. And there’s some new things happening that are really exciting, really interesting, stuff that maybe I wouldn’t have even expected us to pull out of our hat. We’ve got a song that’s like the heaviest blues song on earth, and stuff like that that’s super exciting to hear what the guys are doing. Then, once we’re working on the instrumental for a while, then we get to hear what Corey brings to the table and how that elevates things and turns things into newer and better and whatever… It’s very exciting to hear that kind of taking shape. But, man, there’s so much in it that is trademark Slipknot. We’re not gonna get away from that; we can’t escape that even if we wanted to. There are certain things that are just touchstones of what we are, and I think we’re really happy with that. And the fact that we can try to find new ways of presenting those elements — the loud, the fast, the abrasive, the discordant, all that is there for sure. And that’s really exciting.
- Adderall
- The Dying Song (Time To Sing)
- The Chapeltown Rag
- Yen
- Hivemind
- Warranty
- Medicine For The Dead
- Acidic
- Heirloom
- H377
- De Sade
- Finale
