Slipknot are working on new music. Find all the details below.
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Back in May, guitarist Jim Root said that he had completed “six arrangements” for a new album, despite previously claiming that he had “nearly zero inspiration”.
The band have yet to release any new material since 2022’s ‘The End So Far’, though they teased a new song ‘Long May You Die’, recorded shortly after new drummer Eloy Casagrande joined Slipknot in early 2024. Nothing has come out of that tease so far.
Now, in a new interview, Casagrande has revealed that the band are working on new music.
Speaking to Drummer’s Review, he said: “We are cooking, we are doing some new music, for sure”. While he didn’t give any specific details, he added: “Since I joined the band, we have been working on some new ideas. We keep exchanging guitar riffs, drum beats, so we are always doing something. We had also some jam sessions.
“So, we have a lot of material right now. We just have to sit and put everything together, start jamming, and it’s happening. It already happened. It’s gonna happen in the future. So new material is coming, for sure.”
Watch the full interview below.
Speaking to NME back in December, percussionist and overall band mastermind Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan gave us an update on ‘Look Outside Your Window’, the long-awaited lost album from Slipknot. The album is expected to arrive sometime this year.
Slipknot’s Clown teased that the record is “not even close” to the band’s usual style, adding: “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.” So far, only one track from the album has been released: ‘All Hope Is Gone’ bonus track ‘Til We Die’.
Though the record has been slated for many years – including frontman Corey Taylor, Root and Clown all variously promising its release – Clown told us that the long-awaited LP was out of his hands and with management for the final steps.
“I’m really pleased about it and happy to finally be rid of it,” he said. “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.”
In other news, the band released a 25th anniversary reissue of their self-titled debut album last month, which included previously unheard demos, new artwork and unseen images from the band’s archives.
They’re also reportedly selling their music catalogue for $120million to HarbourView Equity Partners, a deal that will cover ownership rights to their publishing and master recording royalties, and the house in Iowa they and their fans destroyed in the video for ‘Duality’ is going up for auction.
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