While there’s been plenty of exciting activity from Slipknot these past few weeks (their own branded whiskey, more new Knotfest dates, this random chap playing Psychosocial with guns…), all we’ve really been able to think about is the fact that we’re less than two months away from the release of their new album, We Are Not Your Kind.

And frontman Corey Taylor has just gotten us even more hyped for the release of album number six, telling Daniel P. Carter on the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show about how experimental the record is.

“As a whole – and I can say this honestly – it is probably the furthest we’ve pushed the boundaries of creativity and experimentation, while also not losing our identity,” Corey says. “There are bands out there who go for all of that experimentation and forget who they are; they forget that there’s an audience that wants to hear a certain type – it doesn’t have to be the exact thing, but there has to be a certain emotion that they are looking for, that they want to hear. There has to be that touchstone. And you can go as far out as you want, but you have to be able to pull them back to that feeling that made them fans in the first place. And I really think we did with that album. We not only went places that we’ve hinted at musically over the years, but never really went full-board, but we’re also doing heavier things than we’ve ever done.



“We’re still a band that has always just written music for us. If we’re not impressed by it, we’re not putting crap out, you know? Even stuff in retrospect where we may take a listen to it later and go, ‘Ah, I don’t know if that was us.’ But at the time, we’re absolutely backing it, no matter what. So as long as we continue to write music for us first, and the audience second, that’s how you keep that excitement.”

Wow. This already sounds mind-blowing. Listen to the full chat right here (skip to around two-and-a-half hours in for the Corey interview, but give the whole thing a listen anyway because it’s full of Download Festival gold).