Metal Anarchy

It looks like Slipknot are working on material for their next album. According to M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan, the band have a new record and are “gonna start at some point.”

Clown told Knotfest the following:

“2025 I’m going to work on ‘No Complaining.’ Just not going to do it anymore. I realized my expectations are never going to be met. So I need to give myself a break. It’s probably the last part of ego I need to work on. That way I can just float. Nothing will bother me. I can just work on positive potential. We got a new album. We’re gonna start at some point. I just want to roll into that with an energy like it’s all starting again. That’s how I want to approach it.”

He went on to say that the band may write in their rehearsal space like they did for their 1999 self-titled debut album:

“If we got our room and our shit’s going, someone’s gonna pop, everybody’s gonna join in. And if we go, ‘Oh, that’s good,’ that fucker will be done by the end of the night and then massaged over a month. And that’s the best way to write fucking Slipknot music.”

On another note, Clown also discussed “Look Outside Your Window,” the side album that him, Corey Taylor, Jim Root, and Sid Wilson recorded during the “All Hope Is Gone“ sessions. He said the following about the effort, which may finally surface at some point this year:

“It was never a Slipknot album. Not while it was happening, not while I’ve held onto it for ten years, and certainly not fuckin’ when it comes out.”

He added:

“We just did what you should do. We made music. Now, if any of that music could have been Slipknot, it would have been brought down [to the studio]. But that’s not where Joey wanted to go. It’s not where Paul wanted to go. It’s not where Corey wanted to go. It’s not where anyone wanted to go. We had ‘All Hope Is Gone.’ So I just need people to know it’s not Slipknot at all, not even close.”