Clown: Slipknot Are a Year Away From Studio Return

Shawn “Clown” Crahan says that Slipknot won’t return to the studio to record the follow-up to 2014’s .5: The Gray Chapter until late next year.

He, along with guitarist Jim Root and drummer Jay Weinberg have been writing new material while frontman Corey Taylor concentrates on Stone Sour and told Metal Hammer in October that they had “seven or eight” full songs ready.

But in a new interview with NME, Crahan reports that fans will still have a while to wait until they hear new material from the Iowa outfit.

He says: “We’re about a year away from being in the studio. It’s not my fault the maggots don’t pay attention. We make an album, we tour for three years, we take two years off.

“It got a little screwed up after All Hope Is Gone because Paul Gray passed away, so we took time off, took time with our kids, and toured for a couple of years until it felt right. Then when it felt right, Joey Jordison took off.

“I’ll be in the studio in November 2018. There’s a plethora of s**t written. I don’t wanna be told by a label when to write, like some f***ing Cheerio. I wanna write because I write."

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