Slipknot have again postponed their upcoming edition of Knotfest Japan, first scheduled for 2020 and most recently moved to April 2022. It’s now been pushed another full year to April 1–2, 2023.The reason for the postponement is the same, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which initially forced Slipknot to cancel this Japanese installment of their signature fest in March 2020. It was then moved to January 2021 and, later, the 2022 dates. This week, Slipknot and the organizers for the…
Slipknot’s unrelenting-bullet-train-of-a-new-single “The Chapeltown Rag” dropped last week to the delight of maggots all over the net. Some of their reactions were “pure banger” and “It’s all every Slipknot album in one song” and “that new slipknot song has no right to go this hard holy shit.”But the title of “The Chapeltown Rag” isn’t exactly a widely known pop, or metal, culture reference. So what is the song about? In an interview with Knotfest, Corey Taylor breaks it down.Taylor watched a Netflix…
New music from Slipknot is finally here.In early October, frontman Corey Taylor said that the band was “finishing up some music… (and) don’t be surprised if in the next month or so you hear something new.”Slipknot has been touring on the Knotfest Roadshow, which wraps today (Nov. 5) with a stadium show in LA.The last recorded music we got from Slipknot was We Are Not Your Kind, Slipknot’s third album in a row to hit No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart.Band…
Slipknot are currently teasing snippets of music — what sound like they could be portions of a promised follow-up to We Are Not Your Kind — on a mysterious new website called The Chapeltown Rag.The site, apparently an online marketplace for Slipknot NFTs, displays a collection of nine non-fungible token samples that each play a short audio clip when selected. These clips appear to be sections of new Slipknot songs, as ThePRP and MetalSucks pointed out. Some of the NFTs show as…
After weeks of underground rumblings, Tallah drummer Max Portnoy has revealed himself as the mysterious new drummer for Code Orange. The Tallah drummer, who also happens to be the son of Mike Portnoy, revealed his new gig today (Oct. 14) via social media.Fans began to speculate Portnoy was the man behind Code Orange’s kit as the band begin their trek on the Knotfest Roadshow with Slipknot, Killswitch Engage and Fever 333. Portnoy told Loudwire in…