Remember when Clown said he wants the next Slipknot release to be a conceptual double album in the veil of Sgt. Pepper and The Wall? If not, here's a quick refresher:
"I've been on Jim [Root], and I'm just, like, 'Man, we've gotta write an art record. We've gotta write our 'Wall'… 'Sgt. Pepper's'… whatever you wanna say. And that's where I'm at. We've got so many records on our record deal. We've done five. I'd love it if we could do a double album, just… interludes… Have a concept, [and] maybe make a movie. I mean, things that have all been done, things that have all been done before, but… you know, our way, our interpretation. That would be a grand slam for the Clown. Don't get me wrong: we'd still do our thing. We're still gonna be Slipknot."
Turns out Corey Taylor is on board and wants to take it to the next level. In a new interview with Albany's Q103, Taylor said:
"We're talking about it. [Crahan] and I and Jim have been talking about what would be next. And the idea that we had was to kind of come up with the concept and then provide the soundtrack for it. But then I told them the other day… I was, like, 'Let's take it even further and let's make our 'Purple Rain', let's make our PINK FLOYD 'The Wall'.' With a movie — not just the album, but do the movie… like, do everything. And they were pretty into it. Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be a few years before we even get into that, but just the fact that we're laying the steps for it now just means that we're right back to where we were, which is just being five steps ahead of the game."
I am a little weary of a Slipknot movie, only because it seems like Clown's work in the past is far too conceptual and never of any decent substance. I'd hope they'd hire some real deal people to work on it.
Either way, it seems the wheels are turning for the next phase of Slipknot. But it's clear after this cycle wraps, it'll be a few years before we hear from them again.
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