Friday 21 Lifestyle | Gossip Friday, August 2, 2019 orey Taylor says Slipknot used to go “scavenging for had to earn it all, and that’s still the way it is to this day.” And food” when they first started touring. The heavy Corey insists Slipknot’s attitude to touring is no different today, C metal band’s frontman recalls the ‘Wait and Bleed’ which makes him feel “proud”. Speaking on Full Metal Jackie’s hitmakers’ first-ever run in 1999, when they played radio show, he added: “The work ethic, basically is still there. Ozzfest, and admitted they lived off “cans of tuna None of us are as young as we used to be. “That work ethic will fish” and fish-shaped cheese crackers. He said: “I can remember always be the same, as long as this band is this band. That’s some- waking up every morning and scavenging for food. “We lived off thing I’m very proud of.” Slipknot will drop their sixth studio of cans of tuna fish and a giant bag of goldfish crackers that some- album, ‘We Are Not Your Kind’, on August 9th, and Corey recently B one had just left in our bus. “I mean, it was the size of a pillow - admitted it contains some of the “darkest writing” he has done in so we lived off of that for about a month.” Corey insists the group years. He said: “It’s very dark. It’s some of the darkest writing I’ve “didn’t care” about the tiredness and full-on schedule that goes done in years. “In the Slipknot index, this album would sit some- with touring, because they were so focused on making it big in where between [2001 second album] ‘Iowa’ and [2004 third the industry. He said: “We didn’t care about being tired. We didn’t album] ‘Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)’. “Lyrically, it has the force care about the travel, we didn’t care about anything other than of ‘Iowa’, but musically it has the heaviness but the experimenta- doing it. “We had waited our whole lives for this shot and when tion as well. “It was very important for us to go somewhere crazy the opportunity came, we knew that it didn’t stop with that. We and make something insane.” S.