Metal Anarchy

During a recent appearance on the Podioslave Podcast, former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg discussed his upcoming solo album. According to him, the effort will find him “collaborating with many different vocalists.”

Weinberg said the following:

“I’ve been working on, for lack of a better way of putting it, a solo album, but it’s certainly not solo in the terms of it’s not just me. I’m playing all the instruments on it and I’m collaborating with many different vocalists who I’ve been inspired by. I’ve always wanted do something like this where, like with my friend Conner [Sullivan, a.k.a.] Argus, there are many people in life that we always meet, and it’s, like, ‘Dude, you’re so rad. Let’s start a side project or something like that.’ And it’s difficult. We all have lives. we all have our main things that we do, and life takes us in directions and it’s hard to focus and embark on, like, ‘Hey, let’s make a record. Let’s start a band. Let’s do whatever.’ But I think it’s more easily manageable if I write a song and I’ve come up with it and I’m, like, man, ‘Vocally this direction, it could be really great with this guy, this girl on it,’ who’s a friend of mine that I’ve always wanted to work with. And I kind of pitch it to them, like, ‘Hey, here’s this thing. What would you think vocally and lyrically and stuff? I think this is up your alley. What do you think?’ So I’ve been working on something this entire year that I’m really, really excited about. So, [Colorado’s] Field Of Vision [festival in August] will be kind of the debut of some of that material in a little way. It’ll be kind of filtered more through the collaboration I’m doing with Argus for it.

But, yeah, that’s been a huge undertaking that I’m really excited about, hopefully getting out there starting in the fall or so. I made kind of a deal with myself that this material that I’ve been writing and rearranging and working on for years — I was unable to do anything with it, but now that I have the freedom and the ability to exercise all this stuff, it’s been an incredible creative endeavor. I’m teaching myself how to be a recorded guitar player and bass player and keyboard player and all this. I’ve been writing this material since like 20… I have a demo of one of these songs that dates back to 2011. And I’ve always found working on, guitars — I’m surrounded by the guitars I play with — that helps reinforce or reinform how I approach the drums, and I’m listening to what I’m making, not just from wearing my drummer’s hat and, like, ‘Oh, just make the drums louder. That would be awesome.’ It’s not just that. I’m listening to this, because I have such a heavy hand in all of it. Myself, the guitar player, has to respect myself as the drummer and vice versa. And as the painter who’s going to be doing the artwork and stuff like that, it’s all undertakings that I’m taking on. So it’s slow goings, but I’m very proud of it and I’m hoping that some of that stuff starts to see the light of day hopefully this fall, is kind of like the deal that I’ve made with myself. So we’ll see. Knock on wood. We’ll see what happens.”

He also added the following about the musical direction:

“Sonically, it’s all stuff that I’ve always wanted to dive into. I think my influences from NEUROSIS and INTERPOL and MY BLOODY VALENTINE show their face in this kind of material more so than it has in other music that I’ve been a part of writing or recording in the past. So I’m very thrilled to get this stuff out, for sure.”

[via Blabbermouth]