“I have 6 finished arrangements nobody has heard yet”: Jim Root confirms he’s working on new Slipknot material
After Jim Root recently said his “inspiration is nearly zero” following a lengthy touring run, it seems there’s still reason to be hopeful.
In a new interview with the Turning Wrenches podcast, the Slipknot guitarist says the band’s rigorous touring schedule of late has been, in part, to show people “why [new drummer] Eloy [Casagrande] is part of Slipknot”. But now that Casagrande has been established as Slipknot’s latest formidable sticksman, Root says “we need to write a record”.
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“It’s really hard for me personally to be creative when you know you have a tour looming over your shoulder,” Root says [via Blabbermouth]. “I need to know that I’ve got some time off so that I can, like… This is my desk [at my home studio] behind here. I’ve got my reference monitors and the computer I record on. And I need time just to sit here and come up with ideas and layer and make arrangements that I can send off to Corey and Clown.
“After this European run – I told our manager, I’m, like, ‘Stop booking tours, dude. Stop it.’ I get it. It’s Slipknot, so there’s always offers coming in. And it’s hard to say no, because there’s guys in the band that in some ways… We always love playing shows, love playing live shows, but there’s some guys in the band, some of the newer guys, that they need the money ’cause they’re family guys and they have families.
“They’re hired members of the band, and we don’t wanna have to have them go back to work when we get off tour. We wanna be able to make enough money that we can still pay them so that we can work on music and get them out to the studio that Clown likes to use and just be creative and work. And you can’t do that unless you have revenue to do that.
He goes on: “But I kind of put my foot down and was, like, ‘We need to stop, man. We just need to stop.’ ‘Cause I wanna write a record, and we owe it to Eloy to write a record. We need to get Eloy in a room and start jamming and getting creative and get all the rest of the guys in the band and start riffing out and then building them into songs. Plus I need the time for myself just to sit here at this desk and be creative. And it’s coming back.”
Regarding new material he’s been working on, Jim Root says he has “six finished arrangements that so far nobody else has heard”.
“They’re about ready to go to Clown and Corey and then filter out into the rest of the band,” he says. “I would really like to release something before we start working on a [full] record, ’cause it’s gonna take us… I think we need to be able to take our time to write and do pre-production, and that’s gonna take a while. So I would like to get something out sooner to kind of satisfy [the fans]…”
View a list of Slipknot’s upcoming tour dates via their official website.
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