Slipknot tease 2019 album with photo of Corey Taylor and Shawn 'Clown' Crahan
Excitement is building
Slipknot have teased their sixth album with a photo seemingly from the recording studio.
Posted to both Corey Taylor and Slipknot’s social media accounts in the early hours of this morning, the selfie photo features a winking Corey and percussionist Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan throwing a menacing stare.
The image is simply captioned ‘2019’ – the working release date for the fervently-awaited follow-up to 2014’s ‘.5: The Gray Chapter’.
In an interview with Billboard earlier this month, Corey confirmed he has “written lyrics to almost all” of the record, which Clown, Jim Root and Jay Weinberg have been working on for some time now.
“The guys are writing tons of music and I’ve written lyrics to almost all of it and we’re going to start trying to put together demos here and there with the time off that I have and really try to get ahead of the curve as far as what happens next,” Corey told Billboard.
“I know that we’re gonna try and put an album out next year (in 2019) – however, that is all speculation. The best way to make God laugh is to announce your plans out loud. So, I’m just going with the flow. The plan right now is next year, but that is a huge plan because we still haven’t narrowed anything down, so we will definitely see what happens.”
Enthusing about the record to Music Universe back in February, Corey said “It's everything I wanted it to be.”
He added: “They've been sending me stuff here and there. And it's so funny too, because they're, like, 'We don't wanna send you anything till it's ready.' And I'm, like, 'All right. All right.' I've been very patient.
“I've gotten about six songs now, and they're really, really good. And just in kind of that demo form. And by 'demo,' I mean really just the fact that it's maybe a little longer than it will end up. Because what you wanna do is you wanna take that idea and extrapolate it to the point where you've exhausted every kind of idea.
“And then you kind of take it and you shorten it and you break it down and you formulate it and you get it to a little more solid, a little more fluid. And that's where it's at right now."
Corey Taylor returns to the UK this summer to play a trio of sold-out shows with Stone Sour taking in Manchester, London and Nottingham.