Slipknot have been going for more than two decades, making huge waves with their debut self-titled album way back in 1999 and have since become one of the biggest metal acts, headlining festivals, their own travelling tours and much more. In 2022 the band return with yet another mind-bending album titled “The End, So Far” which conjures up many thoughts on the title alone and musically breaking a few more barriers once again.
We talk to the bass player known as V-Man to find out a bit more on the new album, the creative process of Slipknot and how it feels to be back on tour.
On what the band wanted to achieve with the new album The End, So Far:
V-Man: I don’t think there was a goal set out to have like, ‘This is what we wanted it to be, this is how we need this album to sound’. Everything started out with me here, Clown or Jim and once we got together and we were listening to what everyone had been doing and we started piecing things together, I think that’s the point when we realized, ‘Right we’re on to something here’.
On the creative process of the last couple of records and how it’s continued into the new album:
V-Man: Especially towards the end of “We’re Not Your Kind”, we’d be in the studio and we would have a seperate room where Clown would have a lot of the synths and percussion and stuff like that and we would try melodies. A lot like “Insert Coin” and stuff like that would come out of that room with either me sitting on a piano messing around or Clown having a melody or someone whistling down the mic and that kind of experimentation has definitely moved over to where we are at now.
On the tracklisting and the choice of “Adderall” being the opening track:
V-Man: I feel like with the way the album starts with that and then “Finale” and then you’ve just got all of that in between, I just think the way that it flows…a lot of bands nowadays 1 to 6 to 7 just (machine gun noise) and if you do anything melodic it’s just stuck at the end and it just becomes an afterthought and I think “Adderall” is probably one of the strongest songs on the record so why not stick it at number one.
Check out the full interview
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HVec3diP4eM
Listen to Podcast version on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3KiSax1
Get The End, So Far here: https://slipknot1.lnk.to/theendsofar
