Corey Taylor addresses Slipknot break-up rumours

Corey Taylor has defined the which means behind the title of Slipknot‘s forthcoming seventh album, ‘The Finish, So Far’.

The steel titans are because of launch the report – the follow-up to 2019’s ‘We Are Not Your Form’ – on September 30 by way of Roadrunner (pre-order/pre-save here). It’ll characteristic the earlier singles ‘The Chapeltown Rag’, ‘The Dying Track (Time To Sing)’ and ‘Yen’.

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Throughout a reside present over the summer season, frontman Taylor took a second to “clear up” any rumours that advised the title of Slipknot’s forthcoming album may very well be signalling the band’s impending break-up.

“That might not be farther from the fucking fact, my mates,” he instructed the group that night time. “The explanation the title is ‘The Finish, So Far’ is as a result of it’s the finish of 1 chapter, and the start of one other chapter. Are you able to fucking really feel me on the market my mates?!”

Taylor addressed this hypothesis as soon as once more whereas showing on a current version of SiriusXM‘s ‘Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk’ (by way of Blabbermouth), the place he supplied a extra in-depth rationalization.

“Folks have been speaking in regards to the finish of Slipknot since 2003, so it doesn’t actually matter,” he mentioned. “If I had a nickel for each time I’ve needed to straighten followers out, I’d have a shit-tonne of nickels, let’s put it that method.

“Nothing sells albums like drama, let’s put it that method, and even drama that doesn’t even come from us; it simply comes from the followers. However on the identical time, I form of began saying onstage… explaining what the title is.”

He continued: “It’s the truth that it’s… It’s the tip to date, which simply means it’s the tip of 1 period and the beginning of the subsequent.”

Taylor went on to quote a few of Slipknot’s “favorite bands” – together with Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Metallica – who he mentioned have all had “completely different eras of their profession; it’s by no means been a straight line”.

“There’s no by way of line apart from the members,” he instructed the programme. “And each period involves a pure finish after which it’s the subsequent one. In order that’s what the title [‘The End, So Far’] displays.”

Taylor continued: “For me, it’s extra about simply letting the followers know that we will be again and to remind them that you just simply by no means know what you’re gonna get with us.”

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The singer defined that “each album has at all times felt completely different” from the final, including: “I really feel like this period is extra about us coping with the grief that we’ve needed to cope with and now form of attending to the purpose the place we will now transfer on comfortably into the long run, and it’s not about that.

“The subsequent period will certainly be extra of like a ‘gloves off, let’s simply see what occurs and go for it’.”

‘The Finish, So Far’ will mark Slipknot’s last album with Roadrunner after first signing with the label in 1998.

Throughout a earlier interview, Taylor defined that the challenge “felt virtually like a reset” for the group.

In the meantime, Corey Taylor has revealed his plans to report a “darker” and “very melodic” second solo album early subsequent 12 months.

“So there’s nonetheless nice rock and roll on it,” he mentioned. “There’s some heavier stuff, however there’s some actually nice slower stuff. It’s gonna be actually rad.”