Ĭervante Popé of Consequence Of Sound gave the album 9.1 out 10. ī, too, noted the band's new musical style, highlighting that, while singles such as "The Dying Song" and "The Chapeltown Rag" provided "skull-rattling heaviness and ululating waves of deathly riffing," tracks such as "Adderall" and "Medicine for the Dead" showed the band's, and in particular vocalist Taylor's, versatility and evolution. Īndrew Trendell of NME gave the album four stars out of five, comparing the band's new direction to David Bowie, Tool and Stone Temple Pilots, while also noting that heavier tracks like "Hivemind" and "Heirloom" would provide comfort for "Slipknot fans of old". He welcomed the new direction the band had taken with tracks such as the opening track "Adderall", a "six-minute, synth-driven track - with all clean singing", while still noting that the album retained Slipknot's trademarked heaviness, with "primal screams, blastbeats, and more scratching wizardry from Sid Wilson than we’ve heard in a long time". Luke Morton of Kerrang! commented that The End, So Far was more of an album "rather than a selection of songs". At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 80, based on 10 reviews. The End, So Far received generally favorable reviews. Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores In a Reddit AMA, Corey Taylor said that The End, So Far was always the album's intended title, and that the misprint had been caused by "somebody fucked up and didn't double check" with the band. The original vinyl and cassette releases of The End, So Far were misprinted as The End For Now. The album is dedicated to co-founder and former drummer Joey Jordison, who died in his sleep in July 2021. On August 22, 2022, the band announced that there would be nine special editions of the album to be released, each featuring a picture of one of the band members on the cover. The full album was released on September 30, 2022. On August 5, 2022, the band released the third single, " Yen". On July 19, 2022, the band announced the album along with the album's second single " The Dying Song (Time to Sing)". He described the record as a "heavier version" of their 2004 album Vol. In February 2022, lead singer Corey Taylor announced in an interview with Eddie Trunk that the recording of the album had finished, and that it was in the process of being mixed. He also stated that he preferred the material on their forthcoming seventh studio album to that on We Are Not Your Kind. In December 2021, Taylor revealed that the band were planning on mixing their seventh studio album in January, and hoped to release it by April 2022. Several snippets of a song were shown on the website leading to speculation of a new single that the band would later confirm on November 4, with the single titled " The Chapeltown Rag" slated for release the following day alongside its live debut at the Knotfest Roadshow in Los Angeles on November 5, 2021. In November 2021, the band started teasing new material on a new domain. He also added that the band would be parting ways with Roadrunner Records following the release of the album. In an article published by Loudwire on June 9, 2021, Crahan revealed that a new Slipknot album would 'hopefully' be released in 2021. On May 19, 2021, percussionist Shawn Crahan stated that the band had been currently making "god music". Īt a length of 57 minutes and 31 seconds, The End, So Far is the band's shortest studio album to date. It is the first studio album to feature percussionist Michael Pfaff, who joined the band in 2019 and is their final studio album to feature sampler and keyboardist Craig Jones before his departure in 2023. This is the band's final album to be released through Roadrunner, whom the band signed with in 1998. It was released on September 30, 2022, through Roadrunner Records. The End, So Far is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot.
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