"I will say that, at the moment, right now, it feels like a great mesh of ‘Iowa’ and ‘Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)’,” Taylor tells Pop Culture Madness. “You’ve got the gorgeous melodies and the artistic direction of ‘Vol. 3′ and then you’ve got the absolute brutality of ‘Iowa.’ And I think people are gonna lose their minds when they hear it.” — loudwire
It will be biographical: "It feels like the story of the band so far, which is a totally different take on what I've been used to writing with Slipknot, but I think because of everything we've been through, it's time to tell that story.
It's going to be everything you want in a Slipknot album, and everything you wouldn't expect." — Corey Taylor