Corey Taylor reacts to Clown saying Slipknot may cease making albums

Corey Taylor has shared his ideas on his bandmate Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan saying that Slipknot may abandon making albums in favour of singles within the close to future.

Talking to NME, the percussionist, and Slipknot’s de facto inventive director, mentioned: ““I all the time thought, ‘What would it not be like if Slipknot was sufficiently big that we weren’t held to albums?’ Let’s say Clown may persuade you, ‘Hey, as a substitute of ready two years for 12 songs, I’m gonna offer you one music each month.’ So in actuality, I’m shaving a yr off for a similar factor.”

“It’s a must to go together with me on this journey, however what I promise you is, there’s paintings that goes with it, there’s utility that goes with it, it’s cheaper than what a standard particular person music could be… And it’s gone via all of the filters – it’s gone via the band, it’s gone via Corey Taylor, it’s gone via knowledgeable mixer and masterer – no avenues have been chopped up, it’s all enterprise as traditional. And we wish to do that as a result of I believe it’s time for you, our followers, to get every thing.”

Taylor was requested at a current Monster-Mania Con Q&A session whether or not he was on the identical web page as Clown. He mentioned, as transcribed by Blabbermouth.net, “It’s type of tough to get 9 individuals on the identical web page anymore, particularly we’re outdated and dicks. However the cool factor is that all of us nonetheless get enthusiastic about good concepts. [Guitarists] Jim [Root] and Mick [Thomson] are so good at writing music. Me and Clown work rather well arising with stuff collectively, VMan [bassist Alessandro Venturella] is definitely actually good.

“So we’ve achieved a lot in our profession that at this level we may sit again and simply do EPs. I imply, I’ve acquired a good suggestion for a double idea file with an entire storyline that goes together with it that I’d like to do. However the cool factor is that we’ve type of established our historical past, so no matter comes subsequent will naturally be one thing that we wish to do. So whether or not it’s go in and simply blast out a pair psycho tunes and simply have enjoyable doing that or we go in and do a really elaborate plan, like a storyline or one thing, both means it’ll be one thing that we’re actually into.”

He continued, “I again the group, you already know? At this level, we’ve launched a lot music and we’re off our label now, so sky’s our restrict; we are able to type of do no matter we would like. So no matter we do subsequent will probably be one thing that we’re all on the identical web page for, which is one thing you may’t all the time say.”

The Iowa metallic band now have this feature open to them as a result of their contract with label Roadrunner will expire in March 2023, leaving them utterly impartial. Their title of their latest album ‘The Finish, So Far’, which was launched in September, displays this, as it’s the final album The 9 have been contractually obliged to launch on the deal they signed again in 1998.

In the meantime, the band’s drummer Jay Weinberg has opened up about his experiences of listening to loss for a brand new public service announcement for the Listening to Well being Basis (HHF). He defined he realized a “very fast lesson” within the significance of sporting listening to safety on stage when he started enjoying with different musicians.

“We had an awesome day jamming, however then the following morning I had no high-end frequencies in my listening to,” he recalled. “I assumed I truthfully misplaced my listening to altogether, and I used to be actually frightened ’trigger I didn’t know tips on how to cope with that.”