Slipknot are working on a new album with producer Matt Wallace, and have “so much material” to draw from.
That’s according to guitarist Jim Root, who shared an update on the masked metal band during an interview with Ben Giese on the Ride Bynd podcast.
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He confirmed that Slipknot had teamed up with Wallace, who has previously worked with the likes of Faith No More, Deftones, The Replacements, Maroon 5 and Train.
“We’re working with Matt Wallace right now to write this stuff – and there’s times where we just kind of sit back, and we’re listening to what I just worked on, and I’m just like, ‘Wow, this is wild’,” Root explained (via Consequence).
As for the style of Slipknot’s new material, the musician said it “sounds like nothing I’ve ever heard before, yet there’s a familiarity to it that feels like I’ve been listening to it my whole life”.
He went on to describe the songs as “so organic”, adding: “It’s just Slipknot music.”
Later, Root discussed the large amount of new music Slipknot currently have under their belt. He said they had created this by jamming and making parts via recording, before arranging the work into completed pieces.
“We have so, so, so, so much material – probably at least 50 arrangements. I’m not saying they’re all full songs, and they all need work,” he continued.
“We’re trying to leapfrog, go sort of back to the [2019 album] ‘We Are Not Your Kind’ process where we start working on something, getting it to a level, shelving it, working on something else, coming back to it, going, ‘OK, now let’s take this to another level’, and sort of doing that leapfrog where we can let everything evolve and hopefully at one point get to where it’s like, ‘I don’t know if we can let these evolve’. Sort of like making a movie.”
Elsewhere in the chat, Root praised Slipknot’s new drummer Eloy Casagrande: “It’s Slipknot, so we’re gonna have a sound, but at the same time, having Eloy in the band… Man, it’s such an honour to be able to jam with that guy, and the way we’re approaching this.
“Yeah, I can sit at my computer, and I can throw some drum loops up and start writing riffs and layer it, and that’s great. And then I can give it to the band, and Corey [Taylor] can put lyrics on it and all that kind of stuff. And it has its place.”
Sharing further details on the band’s current creative process, the guitarist shared: “The way we’re approaching this, which is similar to the way it was being approached in the beginning as, like [a] garage band sort of vibe. Now we’re going to a church, we’re setting up Eloy, I’m setting up a guitar rig, and we’re just jamming for like two hours.
“And then out of those two hours, we’ll go back, and as we’re playing, Clown will be in the room, and he’s got headphones on, and he might start jamming with us, or he might just be listening to what we’re doing. And he’ll throw his arm up, or he’ll hit the light, and that’s a cue to our producer, like, ‘That’s a part’.”
Root added: “In [Wallace’s] mind, he’s thinking, ‘That’s a chorus. That’s an intro. That’s a verse line. That’s a bridge’, whatever part it may be. But then he’ll look at us, and he’ll be like ‘Stick with that’. Or he’ll be, like, ‘That was cool. Move on. Go somewhere else with that’.”
Last autumn, Casagrande revealed that Slipknot were at work on some material. “We are cooking, we are doing some new music, for sure,” he said.
“So, we have a lot of material right now. We just have to sit and put everything together, start jamming, and it’s happening. It already happened. It’s gonna happen in the future. So new material is coming, for sure.”
Earlier in 2025, Root confirmed that he had completed “six arrangements” for a new album, despite previously claiming that he had “nearly zero inspiration”.
The group have yet to release any new material since 2022 album ‘The End So Far’, though they teased a new song ‘Long May You Die’, recorded shortly after new drummer Eloy Casagrande joined Slipknot in 2024. Nothing has materialised yet, however.
Speaking to NME in late 2024, Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan said: “Eloy is in the band and there’s something happening between the nine of us right now that is very fun. A lot is floating around and we probably have several albums in us right now.
“As for how things feel, I’m being completely honest with you now, it’s like a cloud has left. Whatever that cloud was… everybody participates to the cloud. It’s looking great.”
The percussionist and founding member also told NME that there was “a spirit happening” within Slipknot’s current line-up, “and that spirit is going to be taken very seriously”.
“We don’t know where any of these directions are headed right now, but I do know that there will be a lot [of ideas] brought to the table at the start of every day,” Clown explained.
