Artist Interview
Slipknot are giving fans a closer look at their new masks, including the new bassist and drummer ones, via the video below.
The band's new album, '.5: The Gray Chapter,' hits stores October 21 via Roadrunner Records!
Check out the evolution of Slipknot's masks through the years below.
SiriusXM's Jose Mangin recently gathered audio for Ozzy's Boneyard and Octane for SiriusXM Slash Week, talking with legendary metal guitarist Slash and got lots of interesting stories about Dave Grohl, Guns N' Roses, Slasher Films, and more. Read the highlights from their chat (which was transcribed by Josh "Shitkill" Musto) below, and let us know what you think in the comments!
SiriusXM is hosting "Slash Week," the week-long special on SiriusXM's Octane channel celebrating the release of 'World on Fire.' On Friday, September 19 at 6:00 pm ET, SLASH will guest host on Ozzy Osbourne's SiriusXM channel "Ozzy's Boneyard." SLASH will spin tunes from his storied rock career and tell the stories behind the songs.
On Ozzy, Lemmy, and Dave Grohl
"The first solo record was a great experience because I got to work with so many great people, but there were standout heroes of mine that I got to work with–Ozzy Osbourne being one of them. He's someone that I've known for a long time, but to actually call him up and try and get him to listen to an instrumental piece of music to get him to sing on it was very intimidating, but he was a real gentleman about it. I went down to his studio over at his house and he was working with Kevin Churko, who is a great producer/engineer, and came up with a really amazing vocal–something I was really pleased with–and turned it into a song. So I'll always be proud of that particular moment.
"Then I got a chance to work with Lemmy for the first time, who is another person I've been friends with forever. I remember it was a very basic, simple, straight-ahead rock-and-roll thing that I sent him and I didn't hear back from him for ages and I thought he wasn't into it. And then finally I called him up and he was like, 'Oh yeah, I'm just about done with the lyrics.' I mean, at that point he hadn't even responded that he liked it so he goes, 'I'll be ready to do it tomorrow.' So he came down to the studio and we made sure that he had a couple bottles of Jack and a six-pack of Cokes and some potato chips. He went in there and whipped out this song and it's just–it's awesome, so that was a big moment for me.
"Another one of the things that was really cool—there's a bunch of really cool moments on the record, but I got to work with Dave Grohl and Duff [McKagan] doing an instrumental that was totally live in the studio. We put it together. You know, I had the song arrangement and I gave it to Dave and he picked it up really quickly, like within five minutes on drums. Duff did the same, and we just jammed it like four or five times, and one of those takes is on the record. But Dave Grohl is somebody who is probably the best rock-and-roll drummer to come around since John Bonham. I mean, the guy has got a certain kind of energy and a natural sort of feel and a way of playing songs that I haven't heard anybody really touch on—as well as being a great singer and a great songwriter. So I love Dave—I think he is probably the model 'this generation' rock star—you know, like, somebody who's got it all going on. But at the same time he's sans attitude, he's really easy going, you know?"
On being part of a "Haunted Halloween" maze
"Universal Studios has this event that they do every year in October, which is called 'Universal's Haunted Halloween,' and I went there last year and they had the Black Sabbath 3D maze. I swear to god, it was the coolest thing, still to this day, that I'd ever seen—except for now, we have the clown maze, which is pretty awesome. You know, I'm a big horror fan, and the way they do the entire park up every night is just unbelievable. It's so well done, there's so much attention to detail. John Moody, who is the guy that puts it all together and designs it—I was hanging out with him last year picking his brain about how he did all this stuff and who the next band they were gonna use was, because it was Sabbath last year, and I think it was Alice Cooper the year before, and Rob Zombie for the 3D mazes. So I was saying we should do this band or that band and he was just thinking about it and not really picking up on any of the ideas, and then he called me about four months later or something and asked me if I'd be into doing some music for their first original 3D maze. I just jumped at the chance and it was all killer-clown themed, which is pretty much everybody's deepest, darkest fear–or a lot of people's, it's called 'coulrophobia.' So I instantly had a melody for it and I played for him, and they loved it, and we just put together this whole arrangement for walking through the whole maze, and it's really cool–loud, and the clowns are scary."
On Slasher Films
"At this point Slasher Films has actually picked up a lot of speed. You know, I did the 'Nothing Left To Fear' movie, which was a great learning experience for me. There was some really cool stuff in that movie and I'm very proud of it. It was also one of the hardest movies to make because any producer or director will tell you they're all difficult to make, but this one was really fraught with a lot of obstacles. Anyway, so now I'm working on a movie that's gonna come out next year, which is called 'Cut Throats Nine,' which is more of a thriller, but it's a period-piece—it's set in the 1930s. It's sort of like a bloodthirsty Western, kind of thing–but it's really hardcore. The nine characters that the title comes from are some of the most diabolical murderers and rapists, and they're all their way to the gallows pole to be hanged, but something happens along the way and they all get loose. It's crazy. Then I've got some other ones lined up beyond that. So it's just a slow process, the movie thing. With music, I can get it going very fast and I like to work fast, and the movie business has taught me something about patience. God, it creeps along."
On Guns N' Roses
"I think I was 19 when Guns really started and looking back on the formation of that band, the first club gigs—you know, that whole scene that we were sort of the antithesis of because we were right in the middle of the '80s hair-metal thing. But we hated all those bands so we were like the bad guys in the neighborhood. It was just classic. I mean, every aspect of it was like something out of a rock-and-roll book. It wasn't intentional. It was just the way that we were and the way that things worked out.
"I loved every minute of it, and then when we finally got a record deal, it was 'us against them,' from day one. It was always sort of 'Guns N' Roses, take it or leave it,' and the industry trying to figure out how they were gonna capitalize on that without getting their asses bashed in, because we had such attitude towards them. It ended up being really successful, which was something I'm very proud of because we were successful on our own merit. We didn't conform to the industry, not one tiny iota.
"The songs we wrote were just really snapshots of a day in our lives. We jammed wherever we could find a room to get together and be able to play. I mean, Axl was always writing lyrics and we put together a song here, a song there, wherever we happened to lay our hat. Then we'd go out and play them at The Troubador and The Roxy and stuff like that, The Whiskey and some other venues in town. That's really sort of how the songs got polished, just jamming them in front of crowds. It was just a blast, so I'm very very proud of that band.
"When we went on tour for the 'Appetite For Destruction' record, which, as far as I was concerned, was just a really cool rock-and-roll record, and I thought we'd have that sort of cult following like some of my favorite bands, like Motorhead or whatever, like a real solid, hardcore little audience. Nobody knew who we were when we first opened up for The Cult in 1987, traveling through Canada and the Pacific-Northwest, and then we were opening for Alice Cooper, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, and eventually Aerosmith. And that's when the band broke, was opening for Aerosmith, and we had that 'Sweet Child O' Mine' single going.
"All that stuff was a blast and then after that tour, we went to Japan and Australia for the first time and did those shows, and then they dropped us off back in L.A. and I was like, 'Man, I don't even live anywhere.' Supposedly the band was very successful but I didn't really, I don't know, it's one of those things where I didn't go out, I didn't want to be hanging out at The Rainbow at that point. So it just became a lot of drugs and a lot of this, that, and the other. It was very hard to get the band back together and up-and-running again. When we did get back together, the first gig that we did was headlining some stadium festival and we didn't–it was like all of a sudden we arrived at this place that I never saw coming. And then the rest is history after that."
On touring
"Touring with the Conspirators, I mean, that was something. I think what kept us around this long was the first year that we went out touring on my first solo record was the first time I'd ever really played with these guys. It just had such an instantaneous chemistry. Everybody is just very natural, there's no cues, there's no choreography, every just does their thing and it just happened immediately—that connection was there. It was because of that, as well as the fact that everybody was such great players, I mean really, really good rock-and-roll players, like naturals. Not people trying to put on an act. That's when I was like, If I'm gonna make another record I'm just gonna do it with these guys. That's where 'Apocalyptic Love' came from, and we went on from there.
"We just finished a tour with Aerosmith. It was a couple months long, which is one of the best opening slots I've ever done. Even compared to back in the '80s when Guns N' Roses opened for them. Just really really great—obviously great band, great crew—but we just meshed together really well, but there's a certain sense of camaraderie and family because I've known them so long. Some of the guys in their crew are from my crew and some of my crew are from their crew, and it's just rad. So that was fun. We start up in November doing Europe and then we're gonna do South America, Australia, Asia, Canada, and then we come to the States in the spring.
"We're doing some club dates in Los Angeles—sort of commemorative gigs for the release of the album, and it's the 23rd, 25th, and 26th, at The Troubador, The Roxy, and The Whiskey, respectively. Those are the main clubs where I come from. The Troubador was, even when I was a little kid, my parents, who are both in the music business, we spent a lot of time at The Troubador seeing Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, James Taylor, Carly Simon, and all these different artists that were—like the songwriter blitz that was going on in LA at the time. Then The Roxy, I went to when my mom was doing the clothes for 'Rocky Horror Show,' when it was still a stage production, and it came to L.A. and she did that every weekend for I don't know however many months that was. So I was at The Roxy every weekend and Cheech and Chong was opening and it was just a huge and really exciting. You know, The Rainbow is right there – in the '70s, you can imagine The Roxy and The Rainbow and that whole scene that was going on. That was also one of the big gigs for Guns N' Roses as well as The Troubador back in the day. Then The Whiskey, I was a freelance roadie at The Whiskey for a long time and I remember seeing Motley Crue there for the first time, and Y&T, and all these different bands. And Johanna Went, who was a crazy performance artist back in the day used to take pigs heads and all sorts of crazy stuff on stage. I remember she was a real popular attraction at The Whiskey that I used to go see. So I just have this history at those three clubs and I thought it'd be cool at this point in time to come full-circle and play them all."
As Blood Runs Black will release their new album, 'Ground Zero,' on October 27 via Standby Records. In anticipation, the band has teamed up with Revolver to premiere a new song, "All or Nothing." Check it out below and let us know what you think in the comments!
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Slipknot appear on the cover of the next issue of Revolver, which will hit newsstands on September 23 and is available for purchase online right now. You can view the cover—shot in L.A. by photographer Sean Murphy—below.
You also read an excerpt from the issue's cover story, written by Senior Writer Dan Epstein. In this section, Slipknot's Corey Taylor, Shawn "Clown" Crahan, and Jim Root discuss how their fallen bandmate Paul Gray, who passed away in 2010, influenced the group's new album, '.5: The Gray Chapter.'
"It's weird, man," Jim Root says. "I'm not a very spiritual person, and the whole religion thing, I'm kind of on the fence about a lot of that stuff. So when somebody loses someone who's close to them and says that they're still with them, I've always thought that was bullshit or whatever. But I was out in the garage and working on an arrangement for a song that turned into either 'The Devil in I' or 'Sarcastrophe.' Normally when I write, I throw down the first thing I come up with, then I double it, then I throw a bass on it, and then I put the drums around it. But on this arrangement, I noticed that I wasn't just throwing the riff down—I was trying different variations on it, trying different positions on the neck, and thinking about melodies while coming up with what the chord progression was going to be…
"I suddenly realized, Fuck, man! That's what Paul used to do! Paul was so meticulous. He would overthink everything, even if it was just how to get from one chord to the next chord. He would explore every possibility on the fretboard, especially if he was writing it on the guitar. And it made me go, He's here, man—he's helping me write this shit! And it blew my fucking mind. I had to put my guitar down, and I put my head in my hands. I was like, You fucker!"
Gray's spirit looms large over the new Slipknot album in other ways, as well. "There's a lot of pain on here, there's a lot of honesty, there's a lot of insight as far as what we've been through," says Corey Taylor. "There's some anger, too. I mean, when you lose someone, there's naturally part of you that gets really angry that you lost them. At the same time, you kind of have to concede that you have to be happy for the time you got with that person. A lot of stuff is pointed inwardly, as well, because naturally there's a lot of survivor's guilt going on, like, 'What could I have done?' That's the burden of people left behind. You never get a good answer. All you can kind of do is make peace with it. And that's what a lot of this album is about—making peace with the loss that we've suffered."
"The circumstance of Paul's death is one emotional thing that we all needed to deal with," says Shawn "Clown" Crahan. "It took time before I could walk in, make an album, and feel good about it. I still cried, man. We all shed tears. But it just felt so good to get in there and get it all out."
"We've been compared to scream therapy so many times," adds Taylor, "and in a way, it was really great to be able to use that in a present tense. Not just exploding about things that happened in the past when we were younger, but real, adult stuff."
Check out the evolution of Slipknot's masks through the years below.
SiriusXM's Jose Mangin—and Shawn the Butcher—recently did a cool live interview with revered metal guitarist Dino Cazares and got lots of cool exclusives about the axman's many bands including Fear Factory, Asesino, and Divine Heresy. Read their chat (which was transcribed by Josh "Shitkill" Musto) below, and let us know what you think in the comments.
JOSE MANGIN What's up, Brother Dino?
DINO CAZARES Nothing much, we're just chillin' out and working on the new Fear Factory record.
MANGIN Ah yeah, 'cause I texted you like an hour and a half ago and was like, "Dude, you want to be the guest on our show?" and you were like, "Aah man, I'm tracking guitars." I was like, "Just take a 10-minute break, walk outside the studio, and talk to your boys here, man," so new Fear Factory... You're recording or writing or...
CAZARES Well, we're doing pre-production right now—we'll be in the studio next month to track the album.
MANGIN So you guys have songs written or you're writing it now?
CAZARES Both—we have a lot of songs written and we're finishing the writing, which we're almost done with. We're scheduled to go in next month, October, with Rhys Fulber, who is gonna produce it, and Andy Sneap, who is gonna mix it.
MANGIN Wow! So what label are you guys on now?
CAZARES We're on Nuclear Blast Entertainment.
MANGIN Whoa! Look at [Nuclear Blast president and A&R chief] Monte Conner getting all of his bands back on his label. Monte Conner—by the way if you're listening and don't know who he is—Monte Conner was one of the main dudes over at Roadrunner. He was the main A&R guy that signed a bunch of the classic, awesome bands on the roster of Roadrunner, and he recently went over to Nuclear Blast where he formed Nuclear Blast Entertainment, and now Fear Factory is on there. So was that announced yet or did you just do so?
CAZARES No, you are the first one that got it right now.
MANGIN Wow, awesome, Brother Dino—thank you very much for sharing that!
CAZARES I might have some people mad at me, but it's all good.
MANGIN It won't be the label and it won't be Monte, brother, so that's awesome dude. He was just here yesterday, Monte was.
CAZARES Monte was the guy that signed us at Roadrunner back in 1992, and then to come full circle working with him in 2014 feels very good because, you know, me and Monte were very tight and making all those classic Fear Factory records, we've been through ups and downs together. We saw the best points and the low points of making those records together. It feels good to be back with him because if anybody understands what we've been through and what we've accomplished, it's him.
MANGIN I remember when you were a part of Monte's big thing in 2004, 5, Roadrunner's 20th anniversary—the Roadrunner United cast and you were one of the team captains for Monte on that.
CAZARES Yeah, we were one of the team captains and I think I was one of the first guys to actually go into the studio and start working on stuff, so my team was kind of the guinea pig at the start of it all. It came out really good, everything that we all did—obviously, you know, you've heard and played the record on SiriusXM a million times. We accomplished something great and it felt really good to be able to do something like that for Roadrunner.
MANGIN So tell me Dino, this new Fear Factory—what direction are you guys going in? Are you trying to keep it the same as Fear Factory has been, are you trying to do something a little different? And also, who's in Fear Factory?
CAZARES Well, each one of our records are so different from each other—you know, it still sounds like Fear Factory, there's still the killer guitar picking, the killer drum beats, Burt's beautiful vocals on the top of it, you know, that's all still very much intact, but you always have to try and experiment and push your music to different places, you know what I mean? From Soul of a New Machine to Demanufacture is a big jump, and Demanufacture is obviously so different. I would have to say this record would land somewhere between Demanufacture and Obsolete.
MANGIN OK, wow—look at that, dude!
CAZARES Somewhere in the middle. No techno, none of that stuff, it's just pure. Some of the songs are just heavy and groovy, and then you've got some of the blistering, fucking cold, mechanical riffs like Demanufacture.
MANGIN Are you finding the riffs to come out of your fingers easy or harder than in the past?
CAZARES For some reason easy. I've done records where it's taken us more than a year to write the album, but this time it's been fairly easy. I don't like to jinx it, but everything's flowing good.
MANGIN So Dino, who else is in Fear Factory? Can you give me the lineup right now?
CAZARES Well, the official members are Burton and I.
MANGIN Well, I knew that part!
CAZARES You knew that part, but some people don't.
MANGIN OK, so Burton and Dino are Fear Factory. Who's on drums?
CAZARES Mike Heller is on drums. Mike Heller is a New York native, he was in a band called Malignancy and a few other bands—you know, extreme death-metal stuff.
MANGIN Yeah, I know his name…
CAZARES There were a couple of other bands he played with, but I can't remember their names right now. He's gonna kill me for saying that, I just can't remember the name of the bands.
MANGIN So Mike Heller—that's a cool last name to be in a metal band!
CAZARES [Laughs] Yeah, he's been with us for the last two years and he's amazing, he's a great drummer. He's not a really big name guy, but he just fits well. And then we have Matt DeVries, who was in a band called Chimaira.
MANGIN Yes! So Matt's still in Fear Factory?
CAZARES Yeah, he's doing Unearth, he does stuff while we have down time—me and Burton, while we're writing a record and getting that together, he's doing other projects. He's in Unearth, playing with them live right now, but I know their touring cycle is gonna be done soon. So we're gearing up to do some shows, we're doing Knotfest...
MANGIN Yeah, you guys are one of the headliners for one of the stages, correct?
CAZARES Correct.
MANGIN Yeah brother, I can't wait to see you out at Knotfest, I know it's gonna be a great time—we'll have some burritos and stuff.
CAZARES [Laughs] Yeah. And then we're going to China and India for the first time, which is great—never been there.
MANGIN Wow, I would think that Fear Factory has been to those places before.
CAZARES Yeah, we haven't been to China, I don't know why. I mean, I know that back in the way we got offers, but things didn't work out. But India, I mean people tell me not to go there, but we're going there.
MANGIN Wow dude, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!
CAZARES Hey man, I've been to some of the most hardcore places in fucking Mexico, there's no way you're telling me I shouldn't go to India.
MANGIN No, no, I want you to go, Dino—you go wherever you want!
CAZARES Not you, I'm just saying people have told me, "Dude, be careful!" "Hold on, shit—have you been to Mexico?"
MANGIN So what's up with Asesino, Dino?
CAZARES Asesino—we've got some songs written, I don't want to give you the title, but it's hilarious and the minute you hear it you're gonna laugh your ass off. Listen, when we're gonna go in and record, you definitely got a guest spot on it.
MANGIN Hey dude, you got my number—I would love to do guest vocals on the Asesino album! I gotta get a name though.
CAZARES Yeah, you can't go in as Jose Mangin, you gotta have something else.
MANGIN Maybe I can be "A La Verga Jones" or something.
CAZARES Just "A La Verga"—that's it!
SHAWN THE BUTCHER How about "Stranglin' Mangin"?
MANGIN Nah, that's too American.
CAZARES Yeah, it's gotta be in Spanish. So everybody has a thing that they do, like for instance, I'm "Asesino," my weapon is a machete. And then Emilio is "Sadistico," and his weapon is his cock.
MANGIN What about Tony Campos?
CAZARES Tony Campos' weapon is a gun—he's got a gun, that's his weapon. So you've gotta come up with a weapon, I don't know what it's gonna be.
SHAWN THE BUTCHER Tequila!
CAZARES It could be your mouth.
MANGIN What about a taco shell, a sharp one? Like, I could shank somebody with a taco shell, like a real pointy hard old taco shell, like fried up!
CAZARES You could have a shield, but the shield could be a tortilla.
MANGIN Yeah! Or it could be my magical cloak, you know, if I put it on I disappear. All right, dude, well "A La Verga" it is, dude!
CAZARES "A La Verga"—that's what it is!
MANGIN All right, well, it's not as good as the other names that you guys have, but it's me, you know. So what's the timeline? I gotta put it in my schedule boy! When are you guys doing new Asesino?
CAZARES It won't be till next year, but we do have a few songs that I can tell you what they are.
MANGIN OK!
CAZARES One is called "El Beso Negro."
MANGIN Oh, you told me about this one, "The Black Kiss."
CAZARES The black kiss. But it's a slang for something else.
MANGIN Kissing a butthole, right?
CAZARES Licking ass, yeah! "El Beso Negro," that's exactly what it is. I wanted you to translate it for people so they would know.
MANGIN "El Beso Negro," that's what it is, just eating...licking ass, and you know what? Everyone should do that, you know…
CAZARES [Laughs] I agree! And listen, we have another song called "Sin Condom." It's, like, bareback.
MANGIN Oh, like "no condom" then, right?
CAZARES Yeah, that's Emilio's weapon—screwing girls with no condom. That's his weapon.
MANGIN All right, give us one more Asesino song title, Dino!
CAZARES OK, one more title would be… All right, this is our favorite one, I'm gonna give it to you. If you've ever seen the movie Evil Dead, you will know what I'm talking about, and it's a play on words. It's called "The Mekkonomicon."
MANGIN [Laughs] OK, "The Mekkonomicon"?
CAZARES OK, do you know what that means?
MANGIN Well, "mekko" is jizz.
CAZARES And the "Necronomicon"—what's that?
SHAWN THE BUTCHER The book of the dead.
CAZARES Exactly, so this is the book of jizz.
MANGIN Yeah! That's awesome, dude! This is some breakthrough news right now, man! There's gotta be news organizations just freaking out about it—this is a beautiful, exclusive update from Dino Cazares of Asesino and Fear Factory, talking about the new Asesino album, which will be coming out after the new Fear Factory, correct? Fear Factory is coming out first next year?
CAZARES Of course. Most likely, we're shooting for March.
MANGIN Yes, and Nuclear Blast Entertainment will be releasing the new Fear Factory. And Dino, before you go—I know you gotta go get back to tracking guitars for the new Fear Factory—there was some news last week involving some formers members of a band that you started called Divine Heresy, of which we've all been big fans since you told me you were making this band. Do you want to comment on anything, or set the record straight, or do you wanna hold? What's the deal?
CAZARES Uh, be specific.
MANGIN OK, are you in Divine Heresy?
CAZARES Of course!
MANGIN Are you working on new Divine Heresy?
CAZARES Of course—I have songs written, yes.
MANGIN And are you working with that dude Travis?
CAZARES Yes.
MANGIN Are you still working with Tommy and Tim?
CAZARES No.
MANGIN OK, there it is.
CAZARES That what you wanted to know?
MANGIN Yeah, I just wanted to make sure because, you know, I read all the stuff and then I see stuff that you posted—I'm like, Well, what is happening?
CAZARES I mean, all that stuff is pretty comical—I believe it was just some media who just thought something else and they were misled into believing something else. That had nothing to do with me.
SHAWN THE BUTCHER Well, your Twitter comments have been hilarious so far.
CAZARES This has nothing to do with me by the way, just so you know that. The only reason I'm even mentioning this stuff is because the media likes to throw my name in there, because they're being misled into believing something else.
MANGIN Well, I'm glad that you set the record straight here, Mr. Cazares—and let the record show that Dino is Divine Heresy and will always be Divine Heresy, and whatever they posted on Instagram or whatnot—you know, I think what you talked about with the Asesino song titles, that's more newsworthy, you know what I'm saying? "The Book of Jizz" is way cooler than whatever Divine Heresy...I mean whatever man, I mean, "The Book of Jizz," dude!
SHAWN THE BUTCHER Barebackin' it!
CAZARES Yeah, barebackin' it—that's a weapon.
MANGIN Emilio's weapon of death, dude! Hey, well, Dino dude, thank you again for calling up—really excited about all the news that you gave to us and happy just to see you doing well, and you and Jennifer going on vacation and having a good time, and you're always smiling and stuff. We appreciate everything you do for metal and the raza and for everyone that likes to eat ass.
CAZARES By the way, speaking of eating ass, my wife says hi.
MANGIN Aw yeah, tell Jen we say we said hi and much love.
CAZARES I will—and just to set the record straight, Travis is working on his other band called The Bloodline. I think you know who they are.
MANGIN Yes, with Shaun Glass.
CAZARES Yes, with Shaun Glass and Century Media. So he's finishing that, I'm finishing the Fear Factory record, and when I'm done then you're gonna hear everything else come out—Asesino, new Divine Heresy, everything. So, you know, Fear Factory is the main priority first, and then everything else second. And Asesino is such a fun band and it's easy to make, and there's no pressure. It comes out on my own record label called Odio Records, and that's distributed by Century Media. So be on the lookout for that next year as well.
MANGIN Hell yeah, man, @dinocazares on the social media front—he's on there all the time, and much love and respect to you brother Dino!
CAZARES And thank you for giving me this opportunity and everything that you do for the metal community.
MANGIN A la verga!
CAZARES A la verga!
MANGIN Cool, brother Dino man, get back to tracking, dude, and I'll talk to you soon!
CAZARES All right, thank you very much, man, and I'll talk to you soon.
In anticipation of the release of their long-awaited new album, '.5: The Gray Chapter,' on October 21 via Roadrunner Records, Slipknot have premiered the music video for lead single "The Devil in I." The clip reveals the band's new masks. Check it out below—as well as a new photo of the band with their two new members—and let us know what you think in the comments.
"The Devil in I" was the second track released from the record, following up "The Negative One".
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Incite—which features founding Sepultura and Soulfly frontman Max Cavalera's son Richie as a frontman—recently released their new album, 'Up in Hell.' In celebration, the band has teamed up with Revolver to premiere a new NSFW music video for "Fallen." Check it out below and let us know what you think in the comments!
To get 'Up in Hell,' visit iTunes or Amazon. For more on Incite, follow them on Facebook.
Motionless in White will release their new album, 'Reincarnate,' on September 16 via Fearless Records. In anticipation, the band is streaming the record in its entirety right now. Check it out below and let us know what you think in the comments.
Reincarnate is now available for pre-order on Merchnow and digitally on iTunes. Fans who pre-order the album on iTunes will receive "Reincarnate" as an instant download.
Corrosion of Conformity released their fittingly titled 'IX' full-length released last month via Candlelight Records. Today, the sludge/doom/punk stalwarts have teamed with Revolver to premiere the video for album cut, "On Your Way." Check it out below and let us know what you think in the comments.
For more on COC, visit COC.com and Facebook.com/CorrosionOfConformity.
Boston metalcore stalwarts Unearth will release their new album, 'Watchers of Rule,' on October 28 via eOne Music. In anticipation, the band has teamed up with Revolver to premiere a crushing new track, "The Swarm." Check it out below and let us know what you think in the comments!
To pre-order 'Watchers of Rule,' visit iTunes. For more on Unearth, follow them on Facebook and Twitter.