Slipknot and System of a Down team up for Falling In Reverse's new single. Watch the video for “Joseph”

Falling In Reverse return with "Joseph", a new single that for the first time brings together in the same track Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Serj Tankian of System Of A Down. For Taylor, though, it's not his first time alongside Ronnie Radke's band: he had already featured on "Drugs" back in 2019.
The title refers directly to the full name of Falling In Reverse frontman, Ronald Joseph Radke, but the lyrics broaden their scope to take in war, fanaticism, religion, propaganda and the fear of death, dwelling on humanity's tendency to cyclically reproduce violence and conflict.

The collaboration comes with a video directed by Jensen Noen, once again built around Falling In Reverse's cinematic, over-the-top aesthetic: Taylor appears wearing a Slipknot mask in a fight scene, while Tankian occupies a more suspended sequence, amid plane crashes, demons, skeletons and mountains of bones (see below).

Musically too, "Joseph" follows the band's usual shape-shifting formula. The opening on piano and choir has the tone of a funeral hymn, before Radke alternates between singing, spoken word, rap and electronics and the track plunges into metalcore breakdowns. Taylor steps in for the most aggressive section with his trademark screamed, percussive delivery, while Tankian brings a more theatrical, melodic element, marked by the sudden shifts in tone typical of System Of A Down.
Produced by Radke alongside Tyler Smyth, who also handled mixing and mastering, the track also credits Jason Richardson, Daniel Laskiewicz and Luke Holland among its writers. Above all, "Joseph" marks the first recorded encounter between Taylor and Tankian, two of the most recognizable voices in metal over the past thirty years.

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