Slipknot releases new song days before album release

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Slipknot will be releasing their full album, We Are Not Your Kind, this Friday, August 9. But they released their newest song from the album, “Birth of the Cruel” today.

This is the third song they’ve released from the album, following “Unsainted” and “Solway Firth”. Both songs were released with full music videos.

Z97.5 is looking forward to the album release this Friday. Listen to all the songs from their newest album below:

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