It's the end of the year, and everybody is trying to figure out their 2018 plans. One band that might be gearing up to begin work on new music, depending on who you ask, is Slipknot. If you were to listen to M. Shawn Crahan a.k.a. Clown tell it, Slipknot are very far along in the songwriting process and maybe even almost done? Clown has said he and Jim Root are actively working on Slipknot songs and sending them to Taylor via email. In past interviews, Clown noted there are 27 new song ideas floating and as of the the beginning of November, Clown claims the band have seven or eight songs completed.
Corey Taylor, meanwhile, seems pretty occupied with the Stone Sour album cycle and has only just recently heard any new music. It seems like Clown and Root are taking the initiative, and in a new interview with NME, Clown already has a timetable in mind for when he will be hitting the studio:
"I’ll be in the studio in November 2018. There’s a plethora of shit written,” Clown reveals. “I don’t wanna be told by a label when to write, like some fucking Cheerio. I wanna write because I write. I’ve made people so much fucking money – pay for the studio. Give me this engineer, give me this producer. It’s just jamming, but I’ve never heard music like this, that we’re doing right now. I’ll be 50 by the time it comes out. I’ll be touring when I’m 50, they’ll throw me a birthday party! So where I’m at these days, I’m like, ‘Maybe make it the last one.'”
Naturally, at this point the interviewer assumes Clown is alluding to what he's said in the past, that the next Slipknot album would be his last, to which he followed up:
“Who knows? I don’t have to explain myself to anyone. I’m not gonna be like, ‘Farewell tour!’ then come back. Never say those words to fans – you have to come back if you say that. For me it’s like, I’m going to go fishing indefinitely.”
The timeline, for the most part does line up to what Corey Taylor is envisioning. This past summer, Taylor noted the timeline as "Next year (2018) is everybody kind of doing their own thing, and then probably after that, we will slowly but surely start to get together to do some Slipknot stuff."
In an interview with Metal Wani this past summer, Taylor has said "I know I want to write something violent, to be honest. I want to do something that feels uncomfortable. I want go somewhere where we haven’t been in a long, long time. I don’t know what that means, but I think when I hear it, I’ll know what it is."
[via Loudwire]
