Slipknot made their name from their cuckoo-bananas live show, emerging onto the scene as nine dudes in masks who ran and jumped around, beating the shit out of kegs while they performed. Despite embodying deranged clowns, they're only human — and Corey Taylor acknowledges that he can't do this forever.
In a new interview with Rock Antenne, the lead vocalist revealed that, by his estimate, he maybe has "another five years left" of "physically touring like this" with the band.
"As long as I can physically do it, and as long as there are people there to see it, man, I'll continue to do it. Now, if the quality starts to fail, then I'll know it's time to hand it in," Taylor explained. "And I've already thought about it — I've already thought about, maybe I've got another five years left of physically touring like this."
Despite his best attempts to take care of himself by working out and eating well, he said that the travel is "exhausting." However, if the singer physically couldn't continue touring with the band, he would fully support them carrying on in his absence.
"If they wanted to continue and I wanted to retire, I would help them find somebody, to be honest. This band has always been bigger than the sum of its own parts," Taylor said, citing how hard it was to move on without Paul Gray and Joey Jordison — and Slipknot just lost another longtime member in Craig Jones earlier this month. "It's always been hard when the original nine ceases to be the original nine, but at the same time, the ones who are here are here because we love it, and we've always gotten something out of it."
Taylor continued, "I still wanna be here. And when I physically can't do it anymore, that's when I'll hang it up," adding that retiring from Slipknot doesn't necessarily mean he would stop performing. "Maybe that's when I go and I do my acoustic thing. But when I can't go out there and give it at least my 100 percent, that's when I'll hang it up."
After all, the artist also has a burgeoning solo career away from the 'knot — he's gearing up to release his second solo LP, CMF2, in September. Meanwhile, the band recently dropped a surprise EP entitled Adderall.
"Me and Clown have talked about this, man," Taylor added of his bandmate. "He's older than all of us, and he's broken just as much crap as I have. I mean, Christ, he hit the keg with a baseball [bat] and ripped his bicep clean off the bone, and then went, got surgery and came back. We're psychos, man."
Check out the full interview below.
In a new interview with Rock Antenne, the lead vocalist revealed that, by his estimate, he maybe has "another five years left" of "physically touring like this" with the band.
"As long as I can physically do it, and as long as there are people there to see it, man, I'll continue to do it. Now, if the quality starts to fail, then I'll know it's time to hand it in," Taylor explained. "And I've already thought about it — I've already thought about, maybe I've got another five years left of physically touring like this."
Despite his best attempts to take care of himself by working out and eating well, he said that the travel is "exhausting." However, if the singer physically couldn't continue touring with the band, he would fully support them carrying on in his absence.
"If they wanted to continue and I wanted to retire, I would help them find somebody, to be honest. This band has always been bigger than the sum of its own parts," Taylor said, citing how hard it was to move on without Paul Gray and Joey Jordison — and Slipknot just lost another longtime member in Craig Jones earlier this month. "It's always been hard when the original nine ceases to be the original nine, but at the same time, the ones who are here are here because we love it, and we've always gotten something out of it."
Taylor continued, "I still wanna be here. And when I physically can't do it anymore, that's when I'll hang it up," adding that retiring from Slipknot doesn't necessarily mean he would stop performing. "Maybe that's when I go and I do my acoustic thing. But when I can't go out there and give it at least my 100 percent, that's when I'll hang it up."
After all, the artist also has a burgeoning solo career away from the 'knot — he's gearing up to release his second solo LP, CMF2, in September. Meanwhile, the band recently dropped a surprise EP entitled Adderall.
"Me and Clown have talked about this, man," Taylor added of his bandmate. "He's older than all of us, and he's broken just as much crap as I have. I mean, Christ, he hit the keg with a baseball [bat] and ripped his bicep clean off the bone, and then went, got surgery and came back. We're psychos, man."
Check out the full interview below.
