Slipknot “turned up the dials on experimentation” on new album
Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg has stated that the band “turned up the dials on experimentation” whereas making their forthcoming seventh album.
Frontman Corey Taylor confirmed final month that the masked metallic titans had accomplished work on their “killer” new report, which is able to comply with 2019’s ‘We Are Not Your Type’. A launch date isn’t but recognized.
Earlier this month, Slipknot DJ Sid Wilson gave additional perception into what followers might anticipate from the band’s subsequent full-length effort, explaining that his “sound choice was slightly extra off-planet than regular” following an intensive interval of touring.
Talking in a latest interview with the US radio station WZOR (through Metallic Injection), Weinberg teased the “thrilling” and “actually attention-grabbing” components that characteristic on Slipknot’s new album.
“I might say we form of turned up the dials on experimentation,” Weinberg stated. “And there’s some new issues taking place which can be actually thrilling, actually attention-grabbing, stuff that perhaps I wouldn’t have even anticipated us to drag out of our hat.”
He went on to say that the report will characteristic “the heaviest blues track on earth” amongst different “super-exciting” sounds.
“However, man, there’s a lot in it that’s trademark Slipknot,” Weinberg continued. “We’re not gonna get away from that; we will’t escape that even when we wished to. There are specific issues which can be simply touchstones of what we’re, and I believe we’re actually pleased with that.”
The drummer did, nonetheless, add that the group had tried “new methods of presenting these components” on their upcoming seventh LP – assuring followers that “the loud, the quick, the abrasive, the discordant” features of Slipknot stay.
“I believe [2021 single] ‘The Chapeltown Rag’ is a good instance of that,” Weinberg defined. “I believe that’s a track that’s us form of at peak power and chaos.”
He continued: “However what additionally actually excites me is the way in which that we push issues in experimental methods with out questioning it. It’s simply form of, like, ‘That is what we wanna do’. And folks can take it or go away it. We don’t actually care.”
Weinberg stated that the album was at the moment on the “remaining stage of blending”, including: “And I hope it makes its method onto the stage quickly. It’s gonna be thrilling to share.”
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