Slipknot Fans React to ‘The Dying Song’ + New Album Announcement

Slipknot on Tuesday (July 19) introduced their seventh studio album, The Finish, So Far, with the trouble’s official lead single, “The Dying Tune (Time to Sing),” and an accompanying music video from the masked metallic band. In fact, Slipknot followers instantly began responding to the music and particulars.

Not that we would anticipate something much less from Maggots — the collective time period the Iowa outfit makes use of to check with their diehards — and the obsession with all issues Knot. Within the preliminary wake of the music’s launch, the prevailing temper amongst followers on Twitter was one in all pleasure. Nonetheless, there have been some who weren’t as stoked. On prime of that, feedback surged forth in regards to the album art work and different particulars.

See reactions down towards the underside of this put up.

“The Dying Tune” begins as no Slipknot music has earlier than. Lead singer Corey Taylor intones a few strains a cappella earlier than chanting “Die” time and again. The group then bursts into gut-punching brutality in typical Slipknot style. The music video incorporates a kaleidoscope-like visible perspective — as if the band was performing inside a enjoyable home.

However it’s not the primary of The Finish, So Far that listeners have heard…up to now. Final 12 months’s pre-release single, “The Chapeltown Rag,” can also be on the monitor listing.

Additionally, Slipknot’s “Knotfest Roadshow” continues by means of the U.S. this September with help from Ice 9 Kills and Crown the Empire. Get tickets right here.

The Finish, So Far comes out in full Sept. 30. Watch the video for “The Dying Tune” under. Beneath, discover out in case your response matches that of different Slipknot followers’.