Corey Taylor: Slipknot’s new album to arrive this year

Corey Taylor says that Slipknot‘s new studio album will arrive this year (2022). The follow-up to 2019’s “We Are Not Your Kind” was recorded in 2021 with producer Joe Barresi (who has previously worked with Avenged Sevenfold, Queens of the Stone Age and Chevelle, among many others.

Over the weekend, Corey, who has kept busy with a variety of projects, including releasing a solo album and working on a movie called Zombie Versus Ninja, tweeted: “Big Shit Coming, 2022 edition: ZvN updates, SK album, secret ‘homecoming’ plans, etc. Stay Tuned! ‘Hold On To Your Butts’- Franklin D. Roosevelt”.

Big Shit Coming, 2022 edition: ZvN updates, SK album, secret ‘homecoming’ plans, etc. Stay Tuned!
“Hold On To Your Butts”- Franklin D. Roosevelt

— PANDEMIC! AT THE DISCO (@CoreyTaylorRock) January 8, 2022

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Last November, Slipknot released a new single called “The Chapeltown Rag“. Taylor described the song to Knotfest.com as “a punisher,” saying it documents what happens when the distortions of mass media circulate within the echo chambers of social media.