I am loving We Are Not Your Kind, the new Slipknot album, more and more with each listen. It seems like the most dynamic Slipknot record yet, with a good balance between heavy and the weird/proggy stuff they've experimented with in the past.
Corey Taylor, looking puffy as hell in his new get-up, spoke to Italy’s Radio Freccia and revealed the track he feels is the heaviest on the album:
“That’s one of the cool things about the album — it has all of that. I’ve always said that bands who experiment too far and then don’t bring it back to that emotion that fans need — not expect, but need — from a certain band, we have never forgotten that.
“So as far out as we want to experiment and create and really make this beautifully dense dark art, there’s also crushingly heavy stuff on this album. Honestly, one of my favorites is called “Solway Firth,” and it’s probably one of the heaviest songs we’ve written in 15 years. And it is such a sledgehammer that’s so emotional that it’s really gonna take people’s breath away. And it’s the culmination of everything that is being told on this album. So, yes, there are beautifully artistic passages on this album. However, there’s still the sledgehammer of Slipknot.”
If you've actually listened to the album this should come as no shock to you. It explains why the band decided to release a video for the track, as well.
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Here's the full interview with Corey:
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