Slipknot - The Negative One

     I'm already a few days late to the party on this one, so I'd better hurry up and get it over with lest I become even tardier.

     All the recent online teasing from Slipknot has finally culminated in the streaming of a new song, "The Negative One", our first taste of the band's new material minus Paul and Joey. It's not the best Slipknot song, but it might belie the quality of the rest of the band's next record.

     Since there isn't really any further news about when such a record might be released, for now we'll have to content ourselves with "The Negative One". Have any thoughts about the new track upon listening? Leave a comment below, whydoncha?

Saturday's Song: Slipknot - Snuff

     Yes, I know I'm a few hours late with Saturday's song. I'll blame the weather, because the wintery blast we're currently in the midst of receiving has a great deal to do with my getting posts posted on time. Or not.

     Anyways, by now the well-informed among you may already have heard that Slipknot has parted ways with drummer Joey Jordison (or maybe it's the other way around), so today (or yesterday, now) we're going with a Slipknot song to commemorate the final nail in the coffin of Slipknot as we knew it. First Paul Gray's death in 2010 and now the loss of Joey add up to what will be a very different band on their next record.

     So as a kind of ceremonial chalice-raising to the end of the beast that was, your song for Saturday is "Snuff" from 2008's All Hope is Gone. It might be a little too Stone Sour for some Slipknot fans, but it's a cool song, and a good one too.