Slipknot drop a new single, named Yen, tease new album

August 5, 2022
The long awaited return of Slipknot is slowly growing nearer – and as such, come to the teasers.

Today, Slipknot let slip a new single, named Yen, a brand new single off the band’s widely anticipated new album, The End, So Far, which will be released September 30 on Roadrunner.

Yen follows the forthcoming album’s lead single The Dying Song (Time To Sing) which arrived last month accompanied by an official music video directed by the band’s own M. Shawn Crahan, also known as Clown. The track garnered widespread acclaim upon its arrival, yet both tracks show a change in direction while retaining a lot of the key elements of the band. Something that the members have been eluding to for some time now. Slipknot have always pushed the envelope, so what comes next should be very interesting. Very interesting indeed.

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Also included on the upcoming record, is The Chapeltown Rag, which was dropped early this year – meaning that there are now three of twelve new tracks available for your listening pleasure.

In February, singer Corey Taylor told SiriusXM‘s about the musical direction of the new Slipknot material. “It’s really killer, man,” said Taylor. “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.”

“I would say we kind of turned up the dials on experimentation”, boasts Jay Weinberg. “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 Taylor 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,” insists Weinberg. “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.”

“The Chapeltown Rag is a great example of that,” says Weinberg. “I think that’s a song that’s us kind of at peak energy and chaos. But what also really excites me is the way that we push things in experimental ways without questioning it. It’s just kind of, like, ‘This is what we wanna do. And people can take it or leave it. We don’t really care.”

Pre-orders for the new record are already available through the bands website – hurry! They’ll sell quickly and you’ll left out in the cold, clutching your cock.

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