COREY TAYLOR Says New SLIPKNOT Album Is 98 Percent Done SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor has revealed to the Loudwire Nights With Full Metal Jackie radio show that the bands long-awaited follow-up to 2008s All Hope Is Gone is 98 percent done. He added: Im in the process of heading to the studio to give a listen, see if theres anything we need to touch up. But yeah, it is very close. The next step is the mix, and were going to try to get it out very soon. There will be big announcements soon. Big things to hear, soon. Thats really all I can say about it. I know were anything, if not diligent to our plan. The plan is to just slowly but surely get people to lose their minds for the next couple of months with just little stuff here and there leaked. SLIPKNOTs next CD will be the bands first since the 2010 death of bassist Paul Gray and December 2013 departure of drummer Joey Jordison, one of the groups founding members and key songwriters. Asked what has been most fulfilling about working on new SLIPKNOT music that he never experienced before, Corey told Full Metal Jackie: This one, it just feels, theres something weird about this one. Obviously this is the first album were making without Paul. After everything we went through, theres a catharsis that comes with this, being able to throw all the emotion and aggression out that weve been holding onto. At the same time, getting to be creative again. Feeling that juice coming back into us. Its been a real positive experience just from an artistic standpoint, a lyrical standpoint. Were making an album thats not just a reflection. Lets just get new music out there. Theres something very vital with what were trying to do. Theres something very visceral with the emotion were playing with and trying to tell the story of a band thats gone through hell, and yet were back. Its been really fulfilling. Corey recently described the musical direction of the new SLIPKNOT material as a great mesh of [2001s] Iowa and [2004s] Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses). He explained: Youve got the gorgeous melodies and the artistic direction of Vol. 3 and then youve got the absolute brutality of Iowa. And I think people are gonna lose their minds when they hear it. Even though SLIPKNOTs last album, All Hope Is Gone, came out in 2008, Taylor said, The good thing is weve always been writing, so theres a ton of stuff that were pretty stoked on. Its exactly what you want it to be. SLIPKNOT percussionist Shawn Clown Crahan told The Pulse Of Radio a while back that he has high hopes for the bands next album. That record is going to be, I predict, one of the most serious things that we will have ever comprehended that weve ever done in our life, he said. And we pretty much say that on every record, but I really feel that when the time comes, what will be on hand is going to be something almost unimaginable. The band is rumored to have recruited drummer Jay Weinberg to play on the new album. Weinberg is the son of Max Weinberg, longtime BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND drummer. SLIPKNOT announced in December 2013 that it had parted ways with Jordison. The band has not disclosed the reasons for Jordisons exit, although the drummer issued a statement in January saying that he did not quit the group.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:35:27 +0000
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