"The Chapeltown Rag" is the third track on The End, So Far, as well as the album's first single.[1][2]
Background
On November 2nd, 2021, Slipknot released a new website, thechapeltownrag.com, which fans discovered by finding graphics and links on Knotfest.com. The website included, at the time, 6 NFT graphics, each of which includes a brief sample of new music.[3] The official title of the song was revealed by using Identify Songs Online.[4] On November 4th, Slipknot officially announced the song, to be released and performed live at Knotfest Los Angeles, on November 5th.[1]
On July 19th, the album's full tracklist was leaked on Twitter.[5] And later in the day the band officially announced the album, The End, So Far, along with the music video for the second single; "The Dying Song (Time to Sing)".[6]
- "That's about how social media has turned other social media into something that is more fantastical than it is any sort of honest reporting. Anyone with a website now considers themselves a reporter — you don't even know where the real news is. I'd say you can wade through all the bullshit and get to the real news, but where's the real news? And when that's the case, there's a real danger. It's the salacious side of people thinking they're just reporting, but it's really just their filter, it's just them. When the facts are replaced by feelings, how are we ever supposed to learn something?"
- —Corey Taylor[7]
Song Meaning
The title is a direct reference to Chapeltown in Leeds, England where Sutcliffe murdered a 16 year old girl. Many locals who lived in the area complained about how they felt the song was deeply uncomfortable.[8] Though the killings were merely used as a metaphor from Taylor's perspective as he would elaborate on the meaning of "The Chapeltown Rag":
- "It's a punisher man. It's classic Slipknot. And it's frenetic. But lyrically, it's coming from a point of talking about the various manipulations that can happen when social media meets media itself. And the different ways that these manipulations can try to pull us in different directions, in the fact that we're all becoming addicts to it, which is very, very dangerous."
- —Corey Taylor[9]
Lyrics
[Intro]
Read all about it if you want to know
Read all about what they want you to know
[Verse 1]
Everything is god online, and it's as evil as it gets
This is not a fuckin' trick, either follow or repent (No choice)
Get infected by a vertical event
Check the meter, check your watch
Are they ever gonna stop?
Running out of daylight, nighttime's better
But we know how to handle the truth, motherfucker
Scandalous know-it-all, feedback chamber
Nobody wants the proof, they want a number
[Pre-Chorus]
We don't deny what is wrong with our lives
We can't decide what is left of our right to silence our remains
Buried in the back and I'm sick and alive
Hollow as a breath, the further you dive
[Chorus]
Oh, how I missed your honesty
You never miss with your intensity
You're gonna need a new disguise
Vessels burst, veins release
Just slide into the nearest lie
(One, two, oh my god!)
[Verse 2]
All the ligatures are getting tight, like a style
Murder another mouth before the trial
Scalpel and then you scalp 'em to fucking death
Kills for the other vampires and surrogates
It's a ploy for attention and evidence
All your fucking monsters are flaws in your common sense
Do the dance while the shovels are breaking dirt
Everybody mind your fuckin' business or you get hurt
[Pre-Chorus]
We don't deny what is wrong with our lives
We can't decide what is left of our right to silence our remains
Buried in the back and I'm sick and alive
Hollow as a breath, the further you dive
[Chorus]
Oh, how I missed your Namaste
You never miss with your integrity
You're gonna need a new disguise
Vessels burst, veins release
Just slide into the nearest lie
[Bridge]
Read all about it if you want to know
(Everything is god online)
Read all about it if you want to know
(Everything is god online)
Read all about it if you want to know
[Breakdown]
Stoned like a beast on a chain lookin' dead
Feelin' strange, what the fuck
I'm material to sew into the stains
Like a catalogue of pain, like a martyr in restraints
I can kill with a will, and it's stronger every day
I'm a knife, I'm a gun, I'm a slit, I'm a scar
I'm a scream, I'm a death, I'm a threat, I'm afraid
That you will never understand I'm not the same
You better call the triple 9, I want a face
That you can only recognize
I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid
[Outro]
When everything is god online, nothing is
When everything is god online, nothing is
Gallery
Trivia
- The cover art shows a guy wearing a balaclava mask, with blood around their eyes.
- There is unknown whispering at the end of the song, which could be Sid speaking Geonosian.
- On the album, the last 3 seconds of the song is moved to the beginning of "Yen" causing a seamless transition to the next track.
External Links
To be added
| The End, So Far ― September 30th, 2022 • Roadrunner Records | |
|---|---|
| Standard | 1 Adderall • 2 The Dying Song (Time to Sing) • 3 The Chapeltown Rag • 4 Yen • 5 Hive Mind • 6 Warranty • 7 Medicine for the Dead • 8 Acidic • 9 Heirloom • 10 H377 • 11 De Sade • 12 Finale |
| Singles | |
|---|---|
| Spit It Out • Wait and Bleed • Left Behind • My Plague • Duality • Vermilion • Before I Forget • The Nameless • All Hope Is Gone • Psychosocial • Dead Memories • Sulfur • Snuff • The Negative One • The Devil In I • Custer • Killpop • Goodbye • All Out Life • Unsainted • Solway Firth • Birth of the Cruel • Nero Forte • The Chapeltown Rag • The Dying Song (Time to Sing) • Yen • Bone Church | |
| Promotional Singles | |
| Surfacing • Heretic Song • Pulse of the Maggots • Vermilion Pt. 2 • The Blister Exists • XIX • Sarcastrophe • AOV • Killpop • Skeptic | |
| Live Singles | |
| The Nameless (9.0: Live) • Surfacing (Day of the Gusano) • Before I Forget (Day of the Gusano) • Psychosocial (Day of the Gusano) | |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Franklin, Dan (November 3rd, 2021). Welcome to Chapeltown: Corey Taylor and Clown Delve Into Slipknot's New 'Barnburner'. Knotfest. Retrieved November 4th, 2021.
- ↑ Legaspi, Althea (November 5th, 2021). Slipknot Unleash First New Song in Two Years 'The Chapeltown Rag'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 16th, 2021.
- ↑ The Chapeltown Rag. The Chapeltown Rag. Retrieved November 3rd, 2021.
- ↑ Slipknot - The Chapeltown Rag. AHA Music. Retrieved November 3rd, 2021.
- ↑ @spititoutnews (July 19th, 2022).
Update: New Slipknot Album Track List!!!. Twitter. Retrieved July 19th, 2022.
- ↑ @slipknot (July 19th, 2022). THE END, SO FAR New Album September 30 Watch "The Dying Song (Time To Sing)": http://youtu.be/INi3qP1oWlY Pre-Order: http://slipknot1.lnk.to/TheEndSoFar. Twitter. Retrieved July 19th, 2022.
- ↑ @Thefuckingknot (September 15th, 2022). Corey's Track By Track Breakdown For 'The End, So Far. '. Reddit. Retrieved September 15th, 2022.
- ↑ Evans, Alex (November 9th, 2021). Slipknot name 'pretty grim' new song after Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe. Leeds Live. Retrieved December 18th, 2021.
- ↑ Aarons, Ricky (November 5th, 2021). Stop Everything! Slipknot Have Released New Song 'The Chapeltown Rag'. Wall of Sound. Retrieved December 18th, 2021.
