Twenty years in the dark, and Motionless In White have never sounded more alive.
Scranton, PA metal heavyweights Motionless In White have announced their seventh studio album, Decades, due July 17 via Roadrunner Records — and they’ve brought Slipknot’s Corey Taylor along for the ride.
New single “Playing God” is a ferocious, fang-bared takedown of the social media attention economy — and the album artwork says it all. All teeth, blood, and barely contained rage, it’s a visual gut-punch that matches the track’s energy perfectly. Where a lot of artists gesture vaguely at “toxic internet culture,” MIW go for the throat. The song dismantles the whole machinery of it — the rage bait, the manufactured personas, the parasocial relationships built on deception — and skewers the creators who’ve turned outrage into a business model. The title itself cuts both ways: these platform personalities set themselves up as all-powerful judges while being entirely dependent on the audience that feeds them. Strip away the clicks and they’re nothing.
It’s very much a 2026 metal song, and Chris Motionless puts it plainly: “The internet has gotten worse and worse to the point where only negativity, hatred, and lies are at the forefront of everything you see.” Corey Taylor matches that fury note for note — “I can’t believe how aggressive Corey sounds,” Chris admits — and fans have been quick to notice how seamlessly the two worlds collide. Comments are already flooding in drawing comparisons to classic Slipknot cuts like Eyeless, Thought & Prayers, and Slaughterhouse, with one fan calling it “a perfect mix between the three in the best way possible.” This doesn’t feel like a guest spot for the sake of it — it feels inevitable.
For long-time fans, the single also signals something bigger. Decades appears to mark a conscious return to the heavier, more abrasive sound that defined MIW before Scoring the End of the World, and the fanbase has responded with genuine emotion. “It’s so refreshing to hear MIW coming back to their pre-STEOTW sound,” one fan wrote. “The whole album like this is going to be epic.” Others are already picturing the chaos of the chorus in a live setting — and given the band are currently on the road with Bring Me the Horizon ahead of their own July headline run, they won’t have to wait long.
Recorded in Upstate New York and Los Angeles with co-producers Drew Fulk and Justin “JD” deBlieck, Decades pulls together the band’s signature blend of metal, hardcore, goth, industrial, and electronic into what promises to be their most cohesive record yet. Skylar Grey and Dark Divine’s Anthony Martinez also feature on the album.
“Our current world bred more aggressive energy, anger, and resistance,” Chris says. “We are never going to abandon what mattered to us the most when we started.”
Decades arrives July 17. Pre-order now.
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