Grammy Award-winning Iowan icons Slipknot return with new album, “The End, So Far” There was never a band like Slipknot, and there will never be another. Like a spore out of the Midwest, they’ve quietly bloomed into the most uncompromising, undeniable, and unique presence on the planet whose influence transcends genres and generations. With their seventh album “End, So Far” Slipknot are back, and nothing will be the same again.