Corey Taylor explains why he revealed his new Slipknot mask last year

Slipknot are back, people! To celebrate the announcement of their highly-anticipated seventh album The End, So Far, the band have hit the cover of Kerrang! this week for a world-exclusive interview. And, in our brand-new chat with Corey Taylor, as well as looking ahead to new music, the frontman also rewinds the clock, 10 months, to when he surprisingly revealed his new mask for this era. At the band’s first show in 18 months, headlining Rocklahoma, Corey turned up in his freaky new mask, having seemingly ditched the We Are Not Your Kind one. Slipknot have never done that before… so what was that about?! “It felt like the time to do it, because I’ve been planning and designing it for a minute,” he tells us. ​“I was working on a concept for it and really kind of honing i...

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