Slipknot are a bunch of teases.
After nearly three weeks of insufferable 20 second video teasers promising new music, we finally heard the first new single from Slipknot, "The Negative One", which may or may not be about Joey Jordison.
But, as recently as last week, frontman Corey Taylor answered some lingering questions and revealed that "The Negative One" isn't really the first official single:
”The Negative One” isn’t our single. That was just a gift for the fans, like we wanted them to hear a piece of the album. The single comes out in a few weeks and it’s completely different. It’s more melodic, but it’s dark, it’s powerful man, its something different, people are going to lose their minds when they hear that.
It was revealed that the track Taylor was referring to was "The Devil In I" and today the band is back to doing what they do best – teasing!
The band released the above single artwork for their "first official single." But that's it. No single release date, no album release date, just some artwork. I will say, the anticipation is starting to get to me.
