Slipknot are taking a much-needed pause — however followers can relaxation simple understanding new music is on the horizon. In a candid NME interview, Clown defined the band is hitting pause after the relentless cycles of The Finish, So Far and 2019’s We Are Not Your Type.
“We’re doing the largest factor we are able to do proper now, which is taking a much-needed break,” he says. The grueling back-to-back schedules left him feeling burnt out, and he suspects he is not alone. “We’re taking some actual human time. All people is writing on a regular basis, however we have now not obtained into a spot to work on what’s been written.”
There are tentative plans for the band to regroup later this month — if everyone seems to be up for it. Clown added, “It feels very constructive and everyone seems to be trying ahead to getting again at it.”
Slipknot‘s new drummer, Eloy Casagrande, has additionally supplied followers a glimpse into the studio course of. Chatting with Drummer’s Assessment in October 2025, he confirmed the band is actively writing and jamming: “What I can inform you proper now could be that we’re cooking, we’re doing a little new music, for positive. Sure, we’re,” Casagrande stated.
“Since I joined the band, we have now been engaged on some new concepts. We maintain exchanging guitar riffs, drum beats, so we’re at all times doing one thing.
“We had additionally some jam classes. So we have now lots of materials proper now. We simply have to take a seat and put all the pieces collectively, begin jamming, and it is taking place. It already occurred. It is gonna occur sooner or later. So new materials is coming, for positive.”
Whereas followers have been ready on the observe “Lengthy Might You Die”, teased in Might 2024, it stays unreleased — probably their first new music along with Casagrande behind the equipment. In the meantime, guitarist Jim Root has hinted at a return to Slipknot‘s earlier, rawer roots: “I need to make a uncooked album that sort of like, you recognize, I do not ever need to repeat myself, we do not as a band ever need to repeat ourselves.
“However I want to revisit the uncooked vitality of how these first two data have been recorded and even into the Vol. 3 file…. There’s simply one thing actually stripped down and punk rock about it and I feel we have been lacking that on our previous few data and I feel it is time to get again to that in some methods.”
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