Slipknot’s Corey Taylor addresses rumor that “The Negative One” is about ex-drummer
After Slipknot released the lead single from their fifth album, “The Negative One,” rumors began circulating that the track was about ex-drummer Joey Jordison, who split with the band in 2013.
Metal Hammer recently asked vocalist Corey Taylor about the rumor. Read what Taylor told the magazine below via MetalSucks:
“Here’s the thing. The album is a story — not in a certain order; it jumps around — but it’s a story of this band for the last four years, from the moment Paul died to the moment we stepped out of the studio. So there are certain songs that deal with, not Joey in particular, but about the tension and trying to deal with the ugliness that we all have in us.
“‘The Negative One’ was about me, not about Joey, and that’s why the song says, ‘Your choices are the negative one and me,’ which is the two kinda colliding together. ‘The Devil In I’ is the same, which you’d think would be fucking apparent.
“I love the fact that our fans are that passionate, but ‘Judas Priest,’ get out of the fucking basement once in a while! Log off of the fucking Twitter and go smell a flower, and just let yourself get back to a point where you go, ‘Y’know what? That’s a little crazy.’”
If you missed it, we've pretty much figured out the identities of both the band’s new drummer and bassist. Slipknot will release their upcoming fifth studio album, .5: The Gray Chapter, on October 21 via Roadrunner Records. The band will be on tour this year with Korn and King 810.
Watch the band's video for “The Devil In I” below:
