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The End, So Far
Studio album by
Slipknot
ReleasedSeptember 30, 2022
Recorded2021
Studio
Genre
Length57:31
LabelRoadrunner
Producer
Slipknot chronology
We Are Not Your Kind
(2019) 		The End, So Far
(2022)
Singles from The End, So Far
  1. "The Chapeltown Rag"
    Released: November 5, 2021
  2. "The Dying Song (Time to Sing)"
    Released: July 19, 2022
  3. "Yen"
    Released: August 5, 2022

The End, So Far is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot. It was released on September 30, 2022, through Roadrunner Records. The album is the band's final to be released through Roadrunner, whom the band signed with in 1998.[4][5]

Background

On May 19, 2021, band member Shawn Crahan stated that the band had been currently making "god music".[6] In an article published by Loudwire on June 9, 2021, Crahan revealed that a new Slipknot album would 'hopefully' be released in 2021.[7] He also added that the band would be parting ways with Roadrunner Records following the release of the album.[7]

In November 2021, the band started teasing new material on a new domain thechapeltownrag.com.[8] 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, California on November 5, 2021.[9] 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.[10] He also stated that he preferred the material on their forthcoming seventh studio album to that on We Are Not Your Kind.[10]

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 described the record as a "heavier version" of their 2004 album Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses.[11]

On July 19, 2022, the band announced the album along with the album's second single "The Dying Song (Time to Sing)".[12][13] On August 5, 2022, the band released the third single, "Yen".[14] The full album was released on September 30, 2022.[12][13][14]

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.[15]

The original vinyl and cassette releases of The End, So Far are printed with the wrong title, The End For Now.... 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 [who] fucked up and didn't double check" with the band.[16][17]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[18]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[19]
The Arts Desk[20]
Blabbermouth.net8.5/10[21]
Clash8/10[2]
Exclaim!7/10[22]
Kerrang![23]
Metal Hammer[24]
NME[25]
Sputnik Music2.3/5[26]

The End, So Far was met with critical acclaim. 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.

Luke Morton of Kerrang! commented that The End, So Far was more of an album "rather than a selection of songs". 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".[23]

Andrew 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".[25]

Blabbermouth.net, 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.[21]

Thomas H Green's review for The Arts Desk was more mixed, however. While praising songs such as "Medicine for the Dead" and "Acidic" and "the rampaging metal of ‘Warranty’ and ‘H377’", he criticized the album’s lyrical themes as "the usual sixth form horror-obsessed repulsion".[20]

Reviewing the album for AllMusic, James Christopher Monger was also divided about it; "The End, So Far may not be a home run, but it proves that the band are still in it to win it, even if they're playing the long game."[19]

Commerical performance

The End, So Far debuted within the top ten in over ten countries worldwide, including peaks at the summit in several countries including Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom. In the UK, the album outsold the reissue of George Michael's Older by 340 units after trailing to it in the midweek chart update, claiming the band its third number-one on the UK Albums Chart following 2001's Iowa and 2019's predecessor We Are Not Your Kind.[27][28] It sold a total of 14,068 copies, 12,083 of which came from pure sales while also collecting an additional 2,005 album-equivalent units from streaming.[29]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Slipknot

The End, So Far track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Adderall"5:40
2."The Dying Song (Time to Sing)"3:23
3."The Chapeltown Rag"4:51
4."Yen"4:45
5."Hive Mind"5:15
6."Warranty"3:51
7."Medicine for the Dead"6:16
8."Acidic"4:50
9."Heirloom"3:31
10."H377"4:23
11."De Sade"5:39
12."Finale"5:07
Total length:57:31

Notes

  • On first pressing vinyl versions, track 2 is titled "Dying Song" and track 5 is titled "Hivemind".

Personnel

Credits retrieved from album's liner notes.[30]

Charts

Chart performance for The End, So Far
Chart (2022) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[31] 1
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[32] 4
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[33] 3
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[34] 6
French Albums (SNEP)[35] 5
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[36] 1
Irish Albums (OCC)[37] 7
Italian Albums (FIMI)[38] 20
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[39] 11
Japanese Combined Albums (Oricon)[40] 12
Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[41] 9
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[42] 79
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[43] 2
Scottish Albums (OCC)[44] 3
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[45] 2
Swedish Hard Rock Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[46] 1
UK Albums (OCC)[47] 1
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[48] 1

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  35. ^ "En exclusivité, voici les 10 premiers du Top Albums de la semaine ! 💿 Classement complet lundi 😉". SNEP. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
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