Taylor previously denied being Sleep Token’s masked vocalist Vessel
“I originally wrote it as an aggressive romantic song, but I'm also looking at it now as a kind of ‘come together’ song"
"This is the first major step in something that I've been building towards for a long time"
“This is for all the chin-pressers. All the eye-pushers. The skit-scratchers. The teeth-grinders"
The mask was specially designed for the festival
“I can’t take you crazy motherfuckers anywhere man, Jesus Christ!” said Corey Taylor
Slipknot’s destination festival officially made landfall Down Under, the inaugural edition in Melbourne uniting metalheads with killer riffs and a soul-warming atmosphere
Bad Omens have cancelled their performance at Knotfest Melbourne over vocal issues
“You can feel them leaning into the passion"
See exclusive photos from the studio as Taylor gives us the lowdown on what he promises to be “the best rock album of this year, and the next”