You love it, don’t you, maggot? Slipknot‘s Jim Root has “six finished arrangements” for a new album, even though he says he has “nearly zero inspiration”.
Root was recently a guest of the Turning Wrenches podcast and talked about following-up Slipknot’s 2022 album ‘The End, So Far’.
“I want to make a raw album. I would like to revisit the raw energy of how those first two records were recorded and even into the ‘Vol. 3‘ record (from 2004) … There’s just something really stripped down and punk rock about it and I think we’ve been missing that on our past few records and I think it’s time to get back to that in some ways.”
Even though Jim has six arrangements ready, you shouldn’t expect a new Slipknot album anytime soon. “I think we need to be able to take our time to write and do pre-production and that’s gonna take awhile.”
Root had previously said that he had “nearly zero inspiration” for writing because of Slipknot’s tour schedule. He said he has stuff he wrote before COVID but said “I’m not interested in. I think everybody else in the band gets it too, and I think they’re kind of, like, ‘Okay, we need to maybe sweep all that shit under a rug and start fresh.’”
While you won’t hear a new Slipknot album for a bit, they are expected to release a ‘lost album’ sometime this year.
Which, really, is a new album anyway. Right?
Slipknot’s Clown recently said that album is “not even close” to what you have come to know of the band. “It was never a Slipknot album. Not while it was happening, not while I’ve held onto it for 10 years, and certainly not fuckin’ when it comes out.”
Singer Corey Taylor said of the ‘lost album’, “I’m really pleased about it and happy to finally be rid of it. What’s nice though is that it isn’t a hype thing, it’s just something we did while we were doing other Slipknot albums. It was a very honest action to make music that wasn’t Slipknot, but utilised the skills of guys with no rules.
“I don’t know if it’s ‘good’, but I know that I love it,” Taylor added, “I make music for myself, but I hope that the people who waited and waited and waited think it was worth it too.”
Sounds like the wheels are in motion for a new Slipknot album. Sure, it may be a while before we hear it. But at least the process is starting. Kind of. What should they call the album?
