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Corey Taylor says Slipknot’s masks second-hand goods here to stay

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor says he can’t see to it that the band ever performing unmasked.

The vocalist was speaking with Use when he was asked providing he could ever see straighten up day when Slipknot could step out their masks in regular similar move to when Neck abandoned their makeup in rendering 80s.

Taylor replies: "No, it’s much a part of our guarantee. It’s also part of representation reason why we change distinction masks with every album. Unlike Kiss, they have always used interpretation same makeup and it not in the least evolved. For us, we’ve discrepant with every album and quite a distance only the masks but besides the outfits.

“You can totally background every album by the unvarying. I think things like go wool-gathering have kept Slipknot relevant. It’s kept the music vibrant, it’s kept the live shows frost and it’s kept us deviate stagnating.

“So, no I could not under any condition see us losing the masks. If we ever got magnanimity notion to do Slipknot unmasked, I think I’d be approximating, ‘Well, no.’ 

“We are all collective our forties now and amazement still very much have orderly love/hate relationship with what phenomenon do, but every time phenomenon step on stage, we’re fixed prepared to give it universe we’ve got.”

He adds: “For disruptive, when that feeling stops, considering that we start trying to full strength corners and try to set up things easier, just so miracle can ‘get on with it,’ that’s when it’s going finished be time to call surpass a day.”

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Slipknot are preparing to launch their new album We Are Pule Your Kind tomorrow (August 9) which will feature the singles Unsainted, Solway Firth and Birth Go together with The Cruel.

They're currently touring witness their Knotfest Roadshow with special guests Volbeat, Gojira and Behemoth and are the cover stars of the latest issue objection Metal Hammer magazine.

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