{"id":612889,"date":"2026-09-11T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/612889\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:32:09","slug":"slipknots-arsenal-was-a-tune-we-could-quickly-get-out-there-while-we-work-on-the-rest-of-the-record-and-will-not-feature-on-new-album-says-jim-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/612889\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipknot\u2019s \u2018Arsenal\u2019 was \u201ca tune we could quickly get out there while we work on the rest of the record\u201d and will not feature on new album, says Jim Root"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Root has said that Slipknot\u2019s<\/a> new single \u2018Arsenal\u2019 will not feature on their upcoming album, and was instead \u201ca tune we could quickly get out there while we work on the rest of the record\u201d.<\/p>\n

The metal icons returned with the surprise single earlier this week<\/a> \u2013 with the track marking their first new music in three years, and first release since the departure of Sid Wilson<\/a> and the joining of drummer Eloy Casagrande<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since it dropped, the single has got mixed reviews online, with some fans enjoying the new approach, while many others have criticised it for feeling like too much of a deviation from their usual sound. There has also been backlash towards the song\u2019s chorus, which sees frontman Corey Taylor<\/a> simply repeat \u201cLet\u2019s go, let\u2019s go, let\u2019s go\u201c.<\/p>\n

Now, guitarist Jim Root has spoken out about the harsh comments towards the new song, and said that it is not reflective of the album that they are currently working on.<\/p>\n

In the comment section of a now-deleted post on Instagram, Root replied to one fan who asked if he was upset about the criticism of the song.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt depends on the commenter, really. I mean, what\u2019s their band doing?\u201d he said, before confirming that the song is a standalone single, and different to the songs that they will be including on the upcoming record.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Arsenal\u2019 was a tune we could quickly get out there while we work on the rest of the record. It\u2019s not really representative of the other tunes,\u201d he added, before doubling down and confirming that the single will not be a part of the new LP.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. This was just one that we could finish \u2018sooner\u2019 to get out there,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

In response to the new song, fans have also shared some surprise at how much turntable scratching the song features, especially given this year\u2019s exit of Sid Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Root was quick to respond to rumours of Wilson\u2019s leaving the band<\/a> at the start of last month, telling fans \u201cdon\u2019t believe everything you read\u201d, although they later confirmed that they would \u201cno longer be associated<\/a>\u201d with the keyboardist and turntablist in a post that they swiftly deleted.<\/p>\n

Arsenal will NOT be on the new album<\/a>
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Wilson then clarified things by updating his Instagram profile to reveal that his time in the band was from \u201c1997-2026<\/a>\u201c. He doesn\u2019t feature in the music video, and the band now seems to have eight members, instead of the famous line-up of nine.<\/p>\n

The new album will be the first since 2022\u2019s \u2018The End, So Far<\/a>\u2019, and while details about the upcoming LP remain vague, the band have revealed that they\u2019ve been working with Matt Wallace on the record<\/a> and have \u201cso much material\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to leapfrog, go sort of back to the [2019 album] \u2018We Are Not Your Kind\u2019<\/a> process where we start working on something, getting it to a level, shelving it, working on something else, coming back to it, going, \u2018OK, now let\u2019s take this to another level\u2019, and sort of doing that leapfrog where we can let everything evolve and hopefully at one point get to where it\u2019s like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if we can let these evolve\u2019,\u201d Root said over the summer. \u201cSort of like making a movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the band haven\u2019t released an album since 2022, they did tease a new song, \u2018Long May You Die\u2019<\/a>, recorded shortly after new drummer Eloy Casagrande joined in 2024, replacing Jay Weinberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In April, Slipknot finally released their long-awaited \u2018lost\u2019 album \u2018Look Outside Your Window\u2019<\/a> under that name for this year\u2019s Record Store Day<\/a>. A full series of physical editions<\/a> followed later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Root has said that Slipknot\u2019s new single \u2018Arsenal\u2019 will not feature on their upcoming album, and was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,6158,409],"class_list":["post-612889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-metal","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}