Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesSlipknot‘s next album will arrive in 2019, according to frontman Corey Taylor.
“2019, sometime in that year we will definitely be recording it,” Taylor tells Montreal’s Musik Universe. “We’ll finish writing it, record it and be ready to go on the road.”
As for the direction of the album, Taylor says the lyrics he’s started writing are “probably the most autobiographical I’ve been in years.”
“It’s dark, it’s really dark,” he says.
The new album will be the follow-up to Slipknot’s 2014 effort .5: The Gray Chapter, and percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan has said that it could be his last with the masked metallers.
Given the band’s intense physicality, which has led to multiple injuries for every member, the idea of hanging up his jumpsuit has crossed Taylor’s mind, too. One thing he’s sure of, though, is that he won’t stick around if Clown is out.
“[Crahan’s] always been the vision for this band, for Slipknot, and without that, it crumbles,” Taylor says. “So, yeah, if he left, that would be it for me as well. And I say that, honestly, in a very positive way, because none of us would want to continue doing it from a half-a**ed point of view. Nobody wants to go 50 per cent on a Slipknot album.”
Taylor is currently on tour with his band Stone Sour in support of their new album, Hydrograd.
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