Slipknot will release their new album We Are Not Your Kind on August 9. The album is 14 tracks long, 15 if you grab the Japanese edition that includes the standalone single "All Out Life" that was released in late 2018. Despite all this music either having been released or about to be released, percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan tells Kerrang! that the band is still sitting on plenty of music.
"Did we know that this was going to be the album? No. No one knows. There's another 15 songs that didn't make the cut — there's at least seven or eight songs that are recorded, with vocals, that did not make this album. There's so much material, but all that material whittled this down to its anomaly, and to its presentation."
When asked what will happen to the rest of the music that didn't make We Are Not Your Kind, Clown remains a little cryptic in his answer.
"Usually you take your collection of records, and you make an album. So we have a bunch of records, and we have to basically decide which ones of those records can make up a thought process known as We Are Not Your Kind."
So who knows. Maybe we'll get a Slipknot b-sides EP in 2020 or something, or they'll just keep tweaking those songs until they make up another record.
