The decision to relieve producer Greg Fidelman (who worked their past two records) of his duties in favour of Joe Barresi, the man behind A7X’s The Stage and Coheed & Cambria’s Year Of The Black Rainbow, clearly came from the desire to experiment, expand and enhance the Slipknot sound. On said LP, Slipknot brought together everything we love about the masked maniacs with some extra texture and flair, and on album number seven(!) they’ve taken those atmospheric embellishments to all-encompassing extremes. In fairness, it felt like almost as soon as that stunner was released everyone was asking Corey and co. Considering we had to wait five years for 2019's We Are Not Your Kind, it’s somewhat surprising to hear new music so soon. Not counting the small matter of a global pandemic, inside the ranks of the Iowan hate machine, they’ve had to deal with the departure of Chris Fehn, the addition of tortilla-faced percussionist Michael Pfaff, and the death of former drummer and founder member Joey Jordison.
It’s been quite the three years for Slipknot.
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