Slipknot’s new album: Everything we know so far

With Slipknot confirming their studio return in May and sharing plans to be finished with recording ​“by the end of July”, a follow-up to 2019’s incredible We Are Not Your Kind could well be on the cards much sooner than fans had expected (we did have to wait five years for WANYK after .5: The Gray Chapter, remember?).  Frontman Corey Taylor and percussionist/artistic mastermind Shawn ​‘Clown’ Crahan (unsurprisingly) haven’t been shy when teasing what’s to come from LP number seven, using words like ​“brilliant”, ​“dark”, ​“melodic”, ​“heavy” and ​“weird” – all of which are pretty much par for the course when it comes to the ​’Knot. But what else do we know? Well… It’s “hopefully” coming out in 2021 Yep. When confirming Slipknot’s plans to be done in the ...