Slipknot come back fighting on surprise new single ‘Arsenal’ – their first music since Sid Wilson’s exit

Slipknot have marked their return with the jarring surprise new single ‘Arsenal’, their first new music in three years and since the departure of Sid Wilson. READ MORE: Slipknot on the cover: “Nobody created us except us – we have always drawn our own map” Launched with a typically nightmarish music video directed by M Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan and starring Jackson White to match the harsh fever dream of the track itself, with frontman Corey Taylor spitting about how he “fought a fucking god and the god lost” and staring down naysayers as he warns: “I know I’m a hack and a has-been, but motherf*cker I’m a .45 and not a Mach 10.” Fans have been quick to highlight their surprise at how much turntable scratching the song features, especially given this year’s exit of Sid Wilson. Guitarist Jim Root was quick to respond to rumours of Wilson’s leaving the band at the start of last month, telling fans “don’t believe everything you read”. The masked metal icons then confirmed that they would “no longer be associated” with the keyboardist and turntablist in a post that they swiftly deleted, before Wilson updated his Instagram profile to reveal that his time in the band was from “1997-2026“. He d...