Slipknot‘s creative juices appear to be pumping for their upcoming eighth studio album. A newly published interview with the band’s percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan found him revealing that the masked metal band have actually written enough new material at this point that they could potentially release a double album.
Speaking to Rock Sound, after newly entering that publication’s Hall Of Fame, Crahan said of this forthcoming record:
“Now, here we are at album eight, and I can promise you, album eight’s coming out. What I can say officially is we’ve written so many songs as of right now. We have so many songs that Corey [Taylor, vocals] has sung on for rough demos. We had not foreseen what has happened, which is effortless recording and fun.
Everyone in the band wants to jam and bring music. Eloy [Casagrande, drums] is forcefully feeding the machine, and when you do that with old dogs, they smile and just want to jam.
So technically, I guess we could have a ninth too. We could have a double album. I’m not telling you we’re doing that. I’m just telling you, number eight’s coming out. We’re off all the bullshit. No one’s telling us what to do anymore. We do exactly what we want. We always have, but now it’s so easy. We don’t have any resistance. I don’t think people are ready for what we’ve created because even we are saying we’ve gone to another level.
This new one is probably going to take people a little time because it’s long songs and definitely a musician’s album.”
The group’s latest output, this past September’s surprise standalone single “Arsenal“, was met with a divisive reaction. However, those raising pitchforks should know that it’s since been communicated by the band that that Corey Taylor-penned track won’t be featured on this next outing.
This forthcoming entry in the band’s catalog has a lot of firsts attached to it, including being their first official album since firing DJ Sid Wilson, and since parting ways with sampler/programmer Craig “133” Jones“. It will also be their first since the band took the helm of their label situation.
After fulfilling their contract with Roadrunner Records with the release of “The End, So Far“, Slipknot chose to launch their own label imprint, (sic)est records. That venture hasn’t found them straying too far from familiar comforts though, as they’ve partnered up with Roadrunner and Atlantic Records for that endeavor.
