Corey Taylor just dropped a brutally crushing new collaborative cut "The Hunt" with Code Orange, and according to a recent interview with Kerrang!, that song's unremitting heaviness is a sign of things to come from his own band, Slipknot. Earlier this month, Taylor described the lyrics for the group's next outing as "some of the best I've ever written"; now, he's touting the quality of the music that will back those lyrics.
"I have fantastic news," he said. "Some of you know, but I'll just make it official right now: We are working on a new album. It's only in the demo stages right now, however we have very serious, tentative plans — and I say that because the best way to make God laugh is to announce your plans out loud — to go into the studio at the beginning of next year and get this fucker going. We have 16 songs written right now, and they are fucking dangerous. I loved .5 [The Gray Chapter], but this album, to me, makes .5 look like nobody's business. This is Iowa levels of heavy. And I have to go out and tour this shit at my age — I can feel those songs in my back! I am really, really excited about it, and I talk to the guys in Slipknot all the time. I talk to Clown either every day or every other day. I've been talking to Jim, V-man, Jay, Mick, Craig, Chris, Sid. We're all really, really, really excited about this stuff, and it's coming together really fucking well. So be prepared for 2019 — which, weirdly, is the 20th anniversary of our first album. Shit's about to get fucking real again! So take that as you will."
Below, watch Corey Taylor and Stone Sour's once-in-a-lifetime cover Black Sabbath with members of Slipknot:
