Motionless In White are back with ‘Playing God’, a vicious new song featuring Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, taken from their upcoming album ‘Decades’ out July 17th via Roadrunner Records.
On the surface, it’s a rage-fuelled attack on internet toxicity, but beneath the venom lies something more personal. This is a band that has spent two decades building a world around darkness, theatre and emotional survival, now turning that same intensity back on the digital mob.
The song gets straight to the point. When Chris Motionless spits about “death by engagement” it sounds less like a throwaway line, and more like the thesis of the whole track.
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Formed in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 2004, Motionless In White have always been situated at the intersection of horror aesthetics, metalcore aggression and deeply human vulnerability. Throughout Creatures, Reincarnate, Disguise and Scoring The End Of The World, frontman Chris Motionless has built a catalogue that treats identity, trauma and rage as things to be dragged into the light, not buried.
“Playing God” takes that instinct into the present day. It’s not really about criticism. It’s about that strange feeling of ownership that arises when fans, trolls and onlookers begin treating artists like public property. The song is about rage bait, hot takes and parasocial obsession, but it also exposes the emptiness underneath. The line “falsify truth to fabricate views” strikes a chord because it sounds painfully relevant, particularly in a society where being first, loudest or cruellest often counts more than being right.
Speaking about the track, Chris Motionless states:
“‘Playing God’ is not about any one specific theme of social media infuriation, but a vast amount of themes under the wider umbrella of intentionally toxic and embarrassing behavior exhibited by the bottom-feeding rats of the internet, scavenging for any morsel of attention that helps them cope with the fact that thteir existence is a miserable wasteland of desperation and self-inflicted loneliness.
The song is about people who treat bands, artists, entertainers, etc… as though they are property to impose their all-knowing godly rule upon. How to look, how to sound, how to speak, all while knowing that there is no right answer to these points, because the ‘right answer’ doesn’t generate engagement. Only negative speculation and hateful opinions create a space where all like-minded rats, thirsting for their big hit tweet, can thrive. No expense is spared in pursuit of their big moment of fleeting praise.”
Corey Taylor is no guest star here for just name recognition either. His presence gives the song more bite across the generations. Slipknot set the tone for outsider anger in a previous era of metal. Now Motionless In White are addressing a world where that anger has been algorithmically monetised.
“I can’t believe how aggressive Corey sounds. It’s an observational commentary on toxic internet culture and the people who perpetuate it. The internet has gotten worse and worse to the point where only negativity, hatred, and lies are at the forefront of everything you see. It’s very frustrating because I thought social media was supposed to be a mechanism to connect, but all it does is divide.”
‘Decades’ seems like the perfect home for this song. After two decades, the band still needs heavy music, as Chris told us in 2025, because “It has to be written to feel like Motionless in White.” “Playing God” makes this point to the exact note.
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Motionless In White – Playing God Lyrics (feat. Corey Taylor) In Full
What ‘Playing God’ Really Means
The meaning behind Motionless In White’s “Playing God” (featuring Corey Taylor) is a defiant message against the worst elements of online judgement. The song doesn’t shame fans for having opinions or valid criticism.
Instead, it goes straight for toxic behaviour done only for clicks. It exposes the culture that distorts the truth, that devours outrage and makes people targets for cheap attention.
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