Slipknot carried out their model new single, “The Chapeltown Rag” stay for the first time final evening (Nov. 5) at Knotfest in Los Angeles. The live performance was filmed as a livestream and aired immediately. You may watch the video of the efficiency under.
The live performance occurred at the Financial institution of California Stadium and featured assist from Deliver Me the Horizon, Killswitch Interact, Fever 333, Code Orange, Vended and Corey Taylor’s spouse Alicia Taylor’s dance group Cherry Bombs. The efficiency was additionally the band’s first time headlining a stadium.
“It is traditional Slipknot,” Taylor says about the monitor. “And it is frenetic. However lyrically, it is coming from some extent of speaking about the numerous manipulations that may occur when social media meets media itself. And the completely different ways in which these manipulations can attempt to pull us in several instructions, in the undeniable fact that we’re all turning into addicts to it, which may be very, very harmful.”
The track is impressed by the Netflix documentary The Ripper, which is about the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer who murdered a number of girls in the West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, suburb of Chapeltown in the late 1970s.
The efficiency additionally marked the first time the members wore their up to date masks on stage. Taylor spoke about the significance of the masks on an episode of VICE‘s “The Therapist.”
“With Slipknot, at the very least for most of us in the band, the masks is a part of the artwork — it isn’t simply the visible and the shock; it is a illustration of who I’m in that album. So, for me, it is as pure as having a unique coiffure for one album and tour cycle, sporting completely different garments for an album and tour cycle. It is part of the dynamic. It is one in all the issues that you just stay up for. Not simply writing the songs, not simply placing the music collectively, not simply placing the visuals collectively, however what… who am I on this album?”
Slipknot’s final album, We Are Not Your Variety was launched in 2019. Shawn Crahan, in any other case often known as Clown, not too long ago sat down with Forbes and teased a brand new album in the works. It’s going to formally be the final Slipknot report with Roadrunner Information.
In an interview with Minneapolis radio station 93X (transcribed by Blabbermouth), Clown reiterated a latest declare he made about the upcoming materials and stated, “I imagine that this album is… It is God music, man. It is the middle of the beast for me. This can be a complete different factor.”