Slipknot released their seventh album, The End, So Far, just a few hours ago.
The End, So Far is the Iowa-born masked metal band’s first record since 2019’s We Are Not Your Kind. The new record is the band’s final release on Roadrunner Records, their longtime label home.
The first of The End So, Far that Slipknot fans heard was November 2021’s pre-release single, “The Chapeltown Rag.” Then, the first official album single, “The Dying Song (Time to Sing),” arrived in July 2022. A follow-up, “Yen,” emerged in August 2022. Back in March, Decker spoke with Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg. Weinberg told us that The End, So Far is still very much a Slipknot record, but the band decided to branch out and try things they’ve never thought to try before.
“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,”
Weinberg also touched on how Slipknot as a band continues to stay inspired when making music.
“Not to sound like a jerk but all of us…are such avid art and music consumers… that I think it’s safe to say we have good taste…we know what’s good and what sucks and we have no problem telling each other ‘hey that guitar riff sucks’ or ‘that drum fill sucked’…”
Vocalist Corey Taylor has called The End, So Far a “heavier version” of 2004’s Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses).
Check out the new record as well as our full conversation with Jay Weinberg below!
