Slipknot take the fight to A7X for biggest "What the fucking fuck is this shit?!?!" Award 2026

absolute dogshit song. and i love this band. wanyk was their last hooray, I suppose

lmao is this really what this band sounds like now? i haven’t listened to anything they’ve released since 2004.

Wow this is terrible, even the comments are unanaimously mocking it.

Fires Sid and then releases a song with more scratching on it than I can remember in recent history. Makes sense. Song is complete ass though. If the rest of the album is similar it will end up with ratings average somewhere in the 1's.

Shitknot

ugh

Every descriptor being used to describe this song has been hyperbolic to the nth degree. It's not hyperactive, there are no crushing breakdowns; it is a very weak try-hard song that does the opposite of what it intends to do. It's not forging a new path for the band, it's throwing every Slipknot trope at the wall to pretend this band has even an ounce of the same aggression they used to have.

You can clearly hear the Avenged Sevenfold influence in this one

The "LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO" "hook" is so fucking annoying

Oh my, this is awful. I don't expect much of anything from them these days but sheesh.

The top youtube comment has it right, lmao.

"I push my fingers into my ears"

Worth saying Jim Root is now claiming the song won't appear on the next album. But this and A7X is kind of proving some acts *need* a record label to keep them in line, going independent is letting them go out of control with their ideas and they're not necessarily good ones.

IMO it feels like they're throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks in order to appear more creative but all it amounts to is a whole bunch of unfinished ideas being haphazardly thrown together to create the façade of a complete song. All the press sounds like AI and their Spotify bio is just straight up ChatGPT slop nowadays too. Nobody's proofread it.

Slopknot/10

That intro with Eloy is pretty good. I will say while this song isn't their best clearly, it's not their worst. I think the bones of a solid song exist, it just doesn't all come together. Moving forward who knows what to expect. It's a shame that they bring on Eloy at a time when Corey and Clown continue to look like controlling assholes. I do believe them when they said getting rid of Jay was a creative decision. Eloy gives them the best shot to write much more dynamic shit than they could ever with Jay. Let's be honest, Jay was solid but he was limited to just straight drive and stomp grooves, not allowing them to write anything close to anything on S/T and Iowa. Hopefully Corey and Shawn can stop being egotistical dick heads for just one album.

more like Shitknot unloads more dookie

Corey has always struck me as a super cool dude outside the creative and business decisions of Slipknot. Clown though always has seemed like he's been huffing his own farts.

"But this and A7X is kind of proving some acts *need* a record label to keep them in line, going independent is letting them go out of control with their ideas and they're not necessarily good ones."

You can always just, you know, not care. This is indeed obnoxious but Statica is a different situation because the band had enough common sense to label it as a side project - retroactively but it still counts.

wtf is that mix lol

Man this sucks hard, didn't know a 5 minute song could feel like 15 in the worst way possible

Why does Clown still dictate the direction this band takes, he doesn’t even do shit but bang on a barrel a little bit on stage.

Legal paperwork more than likely.

What is everyone talking about, this isn't that far removed from some of their other percussion-heavy songs aside from having a Knocked Loose ish breakdown. I'd take this over Psychosocial any day of the week.

The problem is that Slipknot and Iowa were conceived in a world before the band's influence was omnipresent. Ross Robinson wanted the craziest shit put on tape to really make a statement. There's not really that sense of direction anymore. At least this song doesn't have an awful clean chorus.

"What is everyone talking about, this isn't that far removed from some of their other percussion-heavy songs aside from having a Knocked Loose ish breakdown. I'd take this over Psychosocial any day of the week."

Solway Firth, Prosthetics, Duality, etc. are also percussion-heavy tracks but they actually sound like they have structure, flow well, and has a discernible riff. The new track is like they went back to MFKR and took all the wrong lessons from it. They're trying to be experimental but it sounds directionless. Plus the mid-song "hey stop the fucking music stop stahhhp" is laughable. It seems inserted into the track because the band couldn't think of a natural transition into the breakdown. It just sounds like weak songwriting.

> lmao is this really what this band sounds like now? i haven’t listened to anything they’ve released since 2004.

kinda happens when you fire half the original members.

> wanyk was their last hooray, I suppose

couldn't agree more

i thought the first minute was good. unfortunately, there were more minutes.

this sucks.

"LETS GO!"

Let's not.

you sure got them with that one

Man shut yo passive aggressive ass up

lol

Eloy is entirely too talented to be playing this shit, just hope he’s making a lot of money at least

Slipknot more like SlipNOT

take this heat Jay

"wtf is that mix lol"

my thoughts exactly. Holy shit its the worst professional mixing I've ever heard.

This sounds like an Attila song I would’ve made fun of 12 years ago.

the worst part about this is that 50 year old men made it.

slipknot is REAL slam

"my thoughts exactly. Holy shit its the worst professional mixing I've ever heard."

The mixing isn't the best, but it isn't making my ears bleed like the Polyphia song released last month.

sad to see this band accelerate their own nosedive into obscurity like this

remember when We Are Not Your Kind came out and said we thought there might be some kind of resurgence? That was fun, wasn’t it?

I don’t know what possessed me to listen to this but whatever it was I need to find the cause and destroy it

Incredibly overrated band. Always have been and I am sure this sounds like ass

First two albums are the best nu metal has to offer. When nu metal fell out of style and they pivoted to some all-encompassing sort of 2000s groove/alt metal, they lost me. At least this sounds kinda different but maybe I'm being generous.

“But this and A7X is kind of proving some acts *need* a record label to keep them in line, going independent is letting them go out of control with their ideas and they're not necessarily good ones.”

Come off it. The band haven’t been shy about how they see themselves as a ‘brand’, which can be continued after they are gone. This garbage has absolutely nothing to do with having too much ‘creative freedom’; it’s the opposite.

Heard the song and I want my 4 mins of life back! Its a messy Frankenstein monster of a song.

We Are Not Your Kind looking more and more like a fluke comeback album

God, this is hideous.

Corey and Clown run the show, that much is clear and has been evidenced multiple times over the years. Whatever they want to do stylistically with the band, they get to do. But you cannot convince me that this band actually approaches music as an artform anymore. It's been a business where the music is just a means of getting their fanbase to buy-in through merch, tickets, etc. It's the pulse of the profits.

"remember when We Are Not Your Kind came out and said we thought there might be some kind of resurgence? That was fun, wasn’t it?"
y'all missed it, the resurgence started with the gray chapter and ENDED with WANYK lol

Slipknot reloads their arse

yeesh, well that was something

Not only does the vinyl scratching immediately make the song sound cheap, but the chorus literally being "lets go lets go lets go lets go lets go lets go lets go" .... what...the...fuck.

CMFTSFA

YOU’RE INSANE, YOU’RE IN PAIN, I CAN TELL BY WHAT YOU’RE SAYINGG ass song

I honestly like the drumming and solo in this song. But the rest, yeah...

Funniest shit I've heard this week, thank you Slopknot

The solo is pretty cool. Cant be mad about it.

They put the Arse in Arsenal

Fires Sid and then releases a song with more scratching on it than I can remember in recent history.