Shawn ”Clown” Crahan: Slikpnotilla on valmiina loistavia uusia kappaleita tulevaa albumia varten
Yhdysvaltalainen metalliyhtye Slipknot on tällä hetkellä tauolla yhtyeen laulajan Corey Taylorin keskittyessä toisen yhtyeensä Stone Sourin tulevan albumin nauhoituksiin sekä keikkailuun. Slipknotissa sen alkuajoista asti ollut perkussionisti Shawn ”Clown” Crahan on antanut hiljattain haastattelun Detroitissa Michiganissa sijaitsevalla WRIF -nimiselle radioasemalle, jossa on paljastanut yhtyeellä olevan jo valmiina ”loistavia” uusia kappaleita tulevaa levyään varten. Clownin mukaan yhtye ei kuitenkaan tule pitämään kiirettä levyn nauhoittamisen kanssa vaan aloittaa nauhoittamaan levyä vasta Corey Taylorin lopetettua keikkailun Stone Sourin kanssa. Voit lukea Clownin ajatuksia aiheesta tästä:
”Well, we’re writing as a band, and with Corey as well. Yes, we’re off, and we’re off for a while — for a long while. Okay, [it’s] much needed. We’d been touring for three years. Corey’s doing what he does, which is STONE SOUR, which is awesome. And he’s living that life, which is awesome, ’cause he does really well and love it; it’s his art. So he does that. And we’re writing. We’re beginning to write some music for SLIPKNOT for the new record. He’s aware of it… So while we’re writing, he’s getting songs.”
”But we’re not just gonna sit around… some of us aren’t just gonna sit around, because we’ve done that for twenty years, ” he explained. ”We just feel like writing. We’ve had so much fun writing ’The Gray Chapter’, and people that started writing together during this album cycle never wrote together in fifteen years, so things are a little bit different and it’s amazing and it’s fun, and we have a good time.”
”We don’t need big, fancy studios or stuff to write,” he said. ”We can just go to each other’s houses and write, you know what I mean? Does that mean we’re in the studio? Why would we go in the studio and just spend a bunch of money right now? No. We’re writing, though. We’re writing for the new record, and Corey gets songs. We have a lot of stuff already that we wrote out on the road for the last three years. We have songs that we’ve written that are amazing.”