Though there’s been no concrete progress yet, Slipknot guitarist Jim Root hopes to one day launch a side project with The Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman. Root told Metal Hammer:
“I’ve been talking to Ben about trying to fire something up with him—Ben from Dillinger—and you know, we may or we may not, it just depends. We’ve been talking for years about trying to do something, but our schedules never line up. So, it just depends, but right now I’m still pretty 100% focused on what we’re doing with this [Slipknot.] I think that needs to be reeled in. I think that more and more we should all be focused a little bit more on what Slipknot is and what we should be doing in Slipknot, rather than spreading ourselves thin with other, you know, projects.”
Root also spoke of some new material in the works for the bands next album as well:
“…We’ve been just kind of jamming a little bit, doing a little bit of riff-mining and stuff like that. But I think, you know, it’s really hard to write while you’re on the road; there’s a lot of distractions and it’s just hard to sink into a vibe with it. So, I think the more we continue to jam, we can probably get some riffs and ideas for things, but as far as full arrangements and things like that, that’s gonna have to come… once the touring settles down a little bit. But it’s, you know… It’s a work in progress.”
