Slipknot have returned with “The Chapeltown Rag”, their first new music in two years. “The Chapeltown Rag” is available now on all streaming platforms and will be performed live for the first time ever tonight at Knotfest Los Angeles. The event will be livestreamed as it happens, giving fans access to both the studio version and Slipknot's live performance of “The Chapeltown Rag” within only hours.

Recorded during recent sessions for a yet-to-be-announced new album, “The Chapeltown Rag” barrels forward with the speed of a derailed freight train and incisively eviscerates internet culture from the inside out with a scream, “WHEN EVERYTHING IS GOD ONLINE…NOTHING IS.”

Vocalist Corey Taylor commented on “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.”

M. Shawn Crahan, better known as Clown, added: “‘The Chapeltown Rag’ facilitates a sort of mindset that you're going to like: it's along the barnburner side of things.”

For all the fans around the globe unable to be present as Slipknot perform the biggest headline performance of their career to date, the band have announced that Knotfest Los Angeles at the Banc of California Stadium will be streamed live tonight, Friday November 5. Slipknot’s first ever livestream, the event will allow fans to share all the excitement of a Slipknot gig, both live as it happens, and for a full 72 hours after.

Tickets are on sale now at Knotfest.veeps.com, priced at a discounted pre-sale cost of $15, with on-the-day tickets being $20. Knotfest Members are eligible to purchase at a discounted price of $12. Tickets bundled with event merch are also available.

As part of the broadcast, ticket holders not only get to see Slipknot’s incendiary new production, live from Los Angeles, but also a selection of songs each from a stacked supporting bill of the hottest bands in heavy music, including Killswitch Engage, Fever 333, Code Orange, Vended and a special performance from Cherry Bombs. Check out the trailer below.