{"id":595424,"date":"2026-09-09T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595424\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:34:08","slug":"slipknot-release-arsenal-first-song-since-firing-sid-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595424\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipknot Release &#8216;Arsenal,&#8217; First Song Since Firing Sid Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/slipknot\/\" id=\"auto-tag_slipknot\" data-tag=\"slipknot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slipknot<\/a>\u2018s new song, \u201cArsenal,\u201d contains everything in the band\u2019s arsenal: Corey Taylor\u2019s total rage, Jim Root and Mick Thomson\u2019s aggro guitar, and all the thunder percussionists Clown and Tortilla Man and drummer Eloy Casagrande can muster. There\u2019s also copious turntablism and keyboards, though after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/slipknot-sid-wilson-part-ways-1235602008\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the departure of the ensemble\u2019s DJ, Sid Wilson<\/a>, and a new press photo that shows only eight members of the band, it\u2019s unclear who\u2019s responsible for all the scratching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRegardless, \u201cArsenal\u201d recalls the total fury of Slipknot\u2019s earliest days with Taylor screaming, \u201cI got a lot to fuckin\u2019 say\/And if you didn\u2019t listen, you didn\u2019t hear me anyway.\u201d He chants, \u201cLet\u2019s go, let\u2019s go, let\u2019s go,\u201d as his bandmates create chaos around his voice. That anarchy becomes even more apparent in the song\u2019s video, directed by M. Shawn Crahan, the group\u2019s \u201cClown.\u201d The clip features actor Jackson White as he descends into a surrealistic, Felliniesque nightmare filled with red and white ghosts and other ghoulies.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe band, which released their last album, The End, So Far, in 2022, did not announce any other new albums or release plans with the single, though more music could be on the way. When Crahan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/slipknot-look-outside-your-window-shawn-crahan-1235534383\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spoke with Rolling Stone<\/a> about his \u201cother\u201d band, Look Outside Your Window, which also features Taylor, Root, and Wilson, he said he was in the middle of a writing session for a new album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cArsenal\u201d arrived less than a month after the band announced it was parting ways with Wilson. \u201cEffective immediately, Slipknot will no longer be associated with Sid Wilson,\u201d the band posted in a since-deleted social media post on Aug. 14. \u201cWe wish him the best in his future endeavors.\u201d The band, including Wilson, had been touring with a still anonymous musician who contributed samples and turntablism on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slipknot\u2018s new song, \u201cArsenal,\u201d contains everything in the band\u2019s arsenal: Corey Taylor\u2019s total rage, Jim Root and Mick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,65947],"class_list":["post-595424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slipknot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}