{"id":846153,"date":"2026-09-13T08:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/846153\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:14:11","slug":"new-slipknot-track-arsenal-not-really-representative-of-songs-that-will-appear-on-upcoming-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/846153\/","title":{"rendered":"New Slipknot track Arsenal “not really representative” of songs that will appear on upcoming album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slipknot<\/a>‘s new single Arsenal is “not really representative” of the rest of the material the band is working on for their upcoming eighth album, says guitarist Jim Root.<\/p>\n

He says because it is too different from the other songs they are working on, Arsenal won’t be on the new album whenever it is released.<\/p>\n

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Slipknot surprise released the song<\/a> this week and, as always, there has been passionate online discussion among fans.<\/p>\n

Responding to comments from fans on a now deleted Instagram post, Root writes: “Arsenal 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.”<\/p>\n

Asked if it will appear on the new record, he adds: “No. This was just one that we could finish sooner to get out there.”<\/p>\n

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Arsenal is the first new music released by the band since the recent departure of DJ Sid Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No firm release details about what will be the band’s eighth album have been confirmed. But Root previously revealed that they were working with long-time Faith No More<\/a> producer Matt Wallace and that they had around 50 song ideas.<\/p>\n

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He said<\/a>: “There\u2019s times where we just kind of sit back and we\u2019re listening to what I just worked on and, I\u2019m just like, Wow this is wild. This sounds like nothing I\u2019ve ever heard before. Yet there\u2019s a familiarity to it that feels like I\u2019ve been listening to it my whole life and it\u2019s just so organic. It’s just Slipknot music.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slipknot‘s new single Arsenal is “not really representative” of the rest of the material the band is working…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-846153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}