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Corey Taylor On We Are Not Your Kind: "This Is Probably The Furthest We've Pushed The Boundaries Of Creativity"

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has spoken about how experimental new album We Are Not Your Kind is.

Corey Taylor On We Are Not Your Kind: "This Is Probably The Furthest We've Pushed The Boundaries Of Creativity"
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While there's been plenty of exciting activity from Slipknot these past few weeks (their own branded whiskey, more new Knotfest dates, this random chap playing Psychosocial with guns…), all we've really been able to think about is the fact that we're less than two months away from the release of their new album, We Are Not Your Kind.

And frontman Corey Taylor has just gotten us even more hyped for the release of album number six, telling Daniel P. Carter on the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show about how experimental the record is.

"As a whole – and I can say this honestly – it is probably the furthest we've pushed the boundaries of creativity and experimentation, while also not losing our identity," Corey says. "There are bands out there who go for all of that experimentation and forget who they are; they forget that there's an audience that wants to hear a certain type – it doesn't have to be the exact thing, but there has to be a certain emotion that they are looking for, that they want to hear. There has to be that touchstone. And you can go as far out as you want, but you have to be able to pull them back to that feeling that made them fans in the first place. And I really think we did with that album. We not only went places that we've hinted at musically over the years, but never really went full-board, but we're also doing heavier things than we've ever done.

"We're still a band that has always just written music for us. If we're not impressed by it, we're not putting crap out, you know? Even stuff in retrospect where we may take a listen to it later and go, 'Ah, I don't know if that was us.' But at the time, we're absolutely backing it, no matter what. So as long as we continue to write music for us first, and the audience second, that's how you keep that excitement."

Wow. This already sounds mind-blowing. Listen to the full chat right here (skip to around two-and-a-half hours in for the Corey interview, but give the whole thing a listen anyway because it's full of Download Festival gold).

Pre-order We Are Not Your Kind through Roadrunner Records right now, and catch Slipknot live at the following dates this year.

June

25 Krakow, Poland @ Mystic Festival
26 Sopron, Hungary @ Volt Fest
27 Bologna, Italy @ Sonic Park
29 Madrid, Spain @ Download Festival

July

1 Nîmes, France @ Amphitheatre Nîmes
4 Lisbon, Portugal @ VOA
5 Viveiro, Spain @ Resurrection Fest
8 Quebec City, Quebec @ FEQ
26 Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
27 San Bernardino, CA @ San Manuel Amphitheater

August

1 Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre
3 Albuquerque, NM @ Sleta Amphitheater
4 Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion
6 Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center
8 Lincoln, NE @ Pinnacle Bank Arena
10 Des Moines, IA @ Iowa State Fairgrounds
11 Tinley Park, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
12 Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
14 Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
16 Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
17 Bonner Springs, KS @ Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
18 Maryland Heights, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
20 Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
21 Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
23 Burgettstown, PA @ KeyBank Pavilion
24 Scranton, PA @ The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
25 Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lake Amphitheater
27 Mansfield, MA @ The Xfinity Center
28 Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
30 Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
31 Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion

September

1 Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
3 Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
4 Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
6 Austin, TX @ Austin 360 Amphitheater
7 Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion
8 The Woodlands, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

October

17 Perth, AUS @ Optus Stadium
20 Adelaide, AUS @ Adelaide Oval
22 Melbourne, AUS @ Marvel Stadium
24 Melbourne, AUS @ Marvel Stadium
26 Sydney, AUS @ ANZ Stadium
29 Brisbane, AUS @ QSAC
31 Auckland, NZ @ Mt. Smart Stadium

November

2 Auckland, NZ @ Mt. Smart Stadium
30 Mexico City, Parque Deportivo Oceanía @ Knotfest

December

6 Bogota, Colombia @ Knotfest

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