Corey Taylor: "I AM NOT QUITTING SLIPKNOT"

Thanks to various sites getting a bit too clickbaity with their headlines/stories derived from Corey Taylor‘s recent chat, Taylor has clarified that he is not leaving Slipknot—at least not anytime soon. In the interview in question, Taylor pondered how long he would physically be able to continue on with the band live, telling Daniel P Carter on ‘Someone Who Isn’t Me‘ podcast:

“You know honestly, if you’d have asked me a year ago I would have said no. But just now, I’m just kind of starting to… I’m 42, I’m not young anymore and as willing as my will is, I’m just beat up man. I mean I might as well be 60 in Slipknot years for christ sake. I don’t know if I would retire, I might step away from Slipknot at some point, just because the way the music is, that sense of energy, I don’t know if I could be able to do that into my 50’s. And I would never want the band to feel like I was holding them back because I just couldn’t physically do it. So that means I wouldn’t completely quit music, I would probably just step away from Slipknot.”

“It’s something me and Clown have talked about, me and Clown have talked about that a bit… Where the band is going to go. Because we’ve done it. We’ve done the crazy shit, we’ve done… At some point we’ll have to evolve again. We’ve evolved with every album. At some point it has to mean something other than just the fucking insanity. And I think in a lot of ways it does not, but we’re all still young enough that we can pull it off physically.

It’ll be interesting to see cause I think that in the future we’ll make it less about the angst and the insanity and more about the creativity, because there’s so many creative people in the band, that… I mean fuck man, we could make like twelve albums of crazy, gnarly shit that it wouldn’t have to just be balls out war every time. So it’s definitely something we’re thinking about, but at the same time you just never know.”

Today, February 25th, Taylor clarified via Twitter: