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Après avoir balancé une petite vidéo mystère sur ses réseaux sociaux, Slipknot confirme la sortie d’un nouvel album et nous donne même la date : le successeur de « 5: The Gray Chapter » paraîtra le 9 août prochain, soit 5 ans après ce dernier opus en date.
Pour l’instant, le titre n’a pas encore été confirmé mais Corey Taylor a décrit ce disque comme « Iowa en plus lourd, plus heavy ». De son côté, Shawn « Clown » Crahan (aka #6) s’est confié au magazine anglais Kerrang! :
“I would have to say (the new album is) like discovering Slipknot all over again – but the way it always needed to be (…) I’m not a fan of the sound quality of our first album, because there’s a noise in my head. I’m not speaking for anybody else here, and I’m not trying to take anything away, so, please, don’t fuck up my words here! The bottom line is, for me, there’s a noise in my head that’s constantly going as I grow old. When I started the band, I was 26 years old, okay? I’m going to be 50 in September, and the noise changes. So this album is like… not being given another chance, because we don’t need a chance. We’re here. But this album is like discovering us all over again as older human beings. You got a certain sort of war in ’98, and now you’re going to get another war in 2019. »
“No albums are better or worse than each other, and they’re all important to our legacy, and our story. But what I’m trying to tell you is: that first album is like being smacked in the face with a garbage can, or a bat. It’s a fucking assault on your soul. With this album, because I don’t know what tomorrow is going to bring, I have to look at this being it. Every time we come out, people are like, ‘What’s Slipknot going to do? Who are they going to be?’ And I really feel this is like me coming out again. I can’t explain it. But it’s like discovering us all over again. We’re back to help the new generation discover it like they first did in ’98.”
The #KNOTFESTRoadshow w/ #Slipknot, @VOLBEAT, @GojiraMusic + @BehemothBand kicks off across North America this summer. Each pair of tickets purchased online comes w/ a digital copy of our upcoming album, scheduled for release August 9. Tix on-sale March 8: https://t.co/GrA4MZuVhN pic.twitter.com/5ysFesQFOZ
— Slipknot (@slipknot) March 4, 2019
Slipknot sera de passage en France dans le cadre de son festival Knotfest le 20 juin prochain à Clisson (Veille du Hellfest Festival). Les moines d’Iowa partageront la scène avec Rob Zombie, Papa Roach, Ministry, Behemoth ou encore Sick Of It All.
