Slipknot releases new punishing serial-killer themed song “The Chapeltown Rag”

Slipknot has released today a new serial-killer inspired song titled “The Chapeltown Rag“. The track, which can be streamed below, was produced by Joe Baressi (Stam1na, Avenged Sevenfold, Queens Of The Stone Age).

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor described the song to Knotfest.com as following:

“It’s classic Slipknot,” said Corey about the track, which is inspired by a Netflix documentary he watched about the Yorkshire Ripper serial killer who murdered multiple women in the West Yorkshire, United Kingdom suburb Chapeltown in the late 1970s. “And it’s frenetic. But lyrically, it’s coming from a point of talking about the various manipulations that can happen when social media meets media itself. And the different ways that these manipulations can try to pull us in different directions, in the fact that we’re all becoming addicts to it, which is very, very dangerous.“

The band will be playing the song live for the first this today at Knotfest Los Angeles which will be held at Banc Of California Stadium.

Slipknot´s last album, “We Are Not Your Kind”, was released in August 2019 and it sold 118,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week of release to land at position No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Furthermore, the album made an impact worldwide with No. 1 debuts in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Australia, Canada, Japan, Ireland, Belgium, Portugal and Finland, as well as Top 5 debuts in Germany, France, Norway, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain and New Zealand.