Conspiracy of The Day: Is The New SLIPKNOT Song About Joey Jordison?

By now, we're assuming you've heard the new Slipknot song, "The Negative One," right? If so, follow along. We're about to reveal a conspiracy…

The band posted the lyrics to the song earlier today, leading to some ideas as to who the song is about. Here are the lyrics:

Fire And Caffeine
A Lot Of Nicotine
I'm Going To Burn So I Better Tell You Everything
The Competition
The Superstition
Never Mind 'Cause You're Never Going To Give In
It's A Crisis, Just How You Like It
The Same Drama In A Different Disguise
I'm Bound To Walk With A Target On My Back
At Least I'm Ready For Another Attack

The Lord Of Lies
The Morning Star
You Had To Be Set Free
Opposing Sides
Your Choices Are
The Negative One And Me

Svengali
Why Are We The Enemies?
I Never Follow And I Never Make Apologies
Your Dementias Are Gonna Getcha
Because Your Walls Can't Support Each Other
Settle For The Cynical
You're So Political
You're Getting Ready 'Cause The First Move Is Critical
Reciprocity
Somebody's Listening
What Did We Learn From Our Time In Captivity?

The Lord Of Lies
The Morning Star
You Had To Be Set Free
Opposing Sides
Your Choices Are
The Negative One And Me
The Negative One And Me

I Hope You Live
To See The Day
When Your World Goes Up In Flames
And As You Die
You See My Face
You're The Only One To Blame

The Prescient
The Nascent
The Quotient (They All Will Fall)
The Cystic
Symbolic
Condition (Systemic)
Egregious
Replete With
These Lesions (Contaminate)
Succumb To
The Selfish
Creation (Your Failure)

No Accountability
Divisibility
I Point A Finger But It's Always Looking Back At Me
The Centipede's Pulling On The Mechanism
Unearthing Scars Of The Cataclysm
When The Innocent
Begin To Circumvent
The Color Fades But The Picture Is Vibrant
What Do You Believe?
Does It Matter Now?
Turn Away
The Killer Is Disavowed

The Lord Of Lies
The Morning Star
You Had To Be Set Free
Opposing Sides
Your Choices Are
The Negative One And Me
The Negative One And Me

I Hope You Live
To See The Day
When Your World Goes Up In Flames
And As You Die
You See My Face
You're The Only One To Blame

The Lord Of Lies
The Morning Star
You Had To Be Set Free
Opposing Sides
Your Choices Are
The Negative One
The Negative One
The Negative One
The Negative One And Me [End of lyrics]

This lead to the sleuths over at Blabbermouth speculating that the song might be about Joey Jordison. The clues:

• Joey's number in the band was 1, the song is called "The Negative One"
• The lyrics The Lord Of Lies / You Had To Be Set Free / Opposing Sides / Your Choices Are The Negative One And Me." seem to coincide with him being let go from the band.

It's certainly possible that after Joey left, it inspired the band to write a whole song about the experience and perhaps the track ended up to be one of the heavier tracks on the album, so they decided to make it the first single. Or this could be just a big coincidence. I'm sure with the conspiracy out there, we will get some answers as soon as the band does interviews.

But when are we going to find out who the drummer is?