Slipknot have released a brand new single called “Arsenal.” This is the first piece of new music from Slipknot since 2023’s experimental EP Adderall.
In a conversation with BBC Radio 1 presenter Jack Saunders, Corey Taylor said of Arsenal:
“It pummels. It is absolutely a pummeling experience. One of my favorite things about it is it kind of encapsulates everything that we do. It’s got these great moments of hyperactivity, and then at the end, man, there’s this sublime drop that just makes it. It’s like we’ve got everyone by the hair, and we’re just going, ‘Go! Go!’ That, to me, sums up SLIPKNOT completely.”
This is the first album with drummer Elroy Casagrande and a yet to be known keyboardist. It’s also the first without veteran turntablist Sid Wilson and without keyboardist/ sampler Craig Jones.
This is also the first photo we’ve gotten of Slipknot with only 8 members.
No word on a new album.
LYRICS
I reminisce about the confidence that comes with the chaos
I know how to dominate at all costs
The prison in my head had the cells tossed
I fought a fucking god and the god lost
Sinners! Come Hither!
We can break the rules and leave home or get old and stay bitter
Nothing in the world can surprise me
I know all the demons despise me
I GOT A LOT TO FUCKIN SAY
AND IF YOU DIDN’T LISTEN
YOU DIDN’T HEAR ME ANYWAY
LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO LETS
LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO
Now I can go a million miles an hour with the best of em but you just wouldn’t fuckin understand like the rest of em
What’s the point of belligerence and syllables that spill out of dirigibles and make the people irritable?
Just SLOOOOOOW the fuck down
Add a pause to it- put a stop to it
I know I’m a hack and has been but motherfucker
I’m a .45 not a Mach 10
(Oh God Not Again)
I don’t want to be a fad- I wanna feel it
I don’t wanna be a trick
I wanna treat it like a fact…
But what the fuck is a fact?
It’s like the truth…
But what the fuck is the truth?
Well the truth is the world is a killer with no cure
Nobody cares when the drugs are so pure
I GOT A LOT TO FUCKIN SAY
AND IF YOU DIDN’T LISTEN
YOU DIDN’T HEAR ME ANYWAY
LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO LETS
LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO
I wish the voices in my head would find a different subject
Change it up or shut the fuck up- crazy does it
Everyone’s a TV show but there’s nothing worth watching I don’t give a shit I gotta go
ROUND HERE I’M GOD
AND I EAT THE SAINTS
I GOT A LOT OF BLOOD CUZ I’M OUT OF FUCKIN PAINT
I’M CAUSTIC- AGNOSTIC
FROM A DISTANCE YOU’RE A LOOKER BUT YOU’RE LOOKIN EXHAUSTED
ARMAGEDDON HAS BEGUN WHAT A CONCEPT
PHARMACEUTICALS CAN FILL YOU FULL OF CONTEMPT
WHEN I SWALLOW THE PROOF IT’S OBNOXIOUS
I BETTER HURRY UP AND TRUST THE FUCKING PROCESS
LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO LETS
LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO
LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO LETS
LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO
