Either way, the band released the new song Tuesday morning (Oct. 14) on a specially designed website. It comes off their forthcoming album .5: The Gray Chapter, the first Slipknot album since 2008 and first without bassist Paul Gray, who died in 2010.

"As far as pressure, we've never had a lot of pressure, because we approach it that way," frontman Corey Taylor told Blabbermouth in a recent interview. "We're, like, 'We're gonna do what we want. If nobody listens to it, that's fine, but we've fulfilled something inside ourselves