Slipknot usually like to take their time between releases. Fans waited four years between 2004's Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses and 2008's All Hope Is Gone. Then, another six years between the latter and 2014's .5: The Gray Chapter. Obviously the six year wait was due at least in part to the death of bassist Paul Gray. By that math, it seems like we'll be waiting a whole eight years between .5: The Gray Chapter and the new stuff.
Fortunately, in a recent interview with Music Radar, guitarists for the group Jim Root and Mick Thomson assure fans they won't have to wait until the next decade for new music. They're hoping to make a new record once they're off the touring cycle for .5: The Gray Chapter and avoid that wait time. According to Thomson:
“This record had a weird songwriting process. We ended up in the studio sooner than we had intended. Jim and Corey had a bunch of stuff demo’d, and other stuff came together in the studio.
"But we didn’t have an ‘all-in-the-same-room’ jamming thing that we hoped for. But we didn’t need it. The first two records, we wrote shit together in a basement. Now everyone has identical Pro Tools setups on their laptops, so we can work on stuff while we’re touring.
"It enables us to have songs in the can already before we go in a studio to work on a new album. We hope to do our next record sooner after touring .5. We don’t want to spend the same amount of time between albums as we’ve done with the last two.”
Root also chimes in, saying the writing process for the record after will probably be a little different given the weird circumstances for the last one:
"When you had Paul and Joey writing, you had to find your place. They didn’t write a lot of material for All Hope Is Gone, so more of my songwriting came out. With .5 it seems like I basically did the whole record. That’s why last November, I really put my nose to the grindstone and put together enough arrangements so that we could finally get going.”
I guess with all eyes on them now after releasing such a sick record, the expectations from fans are high! Not that it seems like the band is capable of failing at this point.
Although, one big wildcard is frontman Corey Taylor and his other band, Stone Sour. They are on hiatus right now, but once Slipknot is done touring I'm assuming Taylor would want to work with his other band. This might be an interesting time for Slipknot.
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