Corey Taylor Slipknot fans on the progress of the band's new album, the successor to We Are Not Your Kind (2019). Despite delays in recording after the vocalist tested positive for COVID-19 , the project is in its final stages.
“I was going to finish recording my vocals this week. I screwed up, man,” he lamented about the illness in an interview with GalaxyCon (via Loudwire ). “Actually, there are only three songs left to record. I did all the other tracks because I'm recording between tours.”
In July, the singer explained that the sound of the band's seventh album will be an expansion of the musical universe of their previous release. “I’m trying to tell different stories again (…) and the feeling is liberating. It’s very liberating, man. It’s going to be insane. There are some songs that people will be like… They’re the kind of songs that will start a mosh pit and drive people crazy,” he said.
Despite this connection, Taylor said the next one will be better. “I like the new one more than the previous one – and I love the last one,” she continued. “It’s really good and it has some darker, heavier stuff, some songs that are outside our comfort zone, but it all makes sense together and it has some wild, heavy tracks, I’m freaking out about those. I’m very happy.”.
While there's no exact release date yet, Shawn Crahan 's calculations indicated the project would be finished in July and released sometime in 2021. With Corey Taylor isolated in a hotel room , the project is experiencing a one-month delay and depends on the singer's full recovery to complete the vocal recordings without conflicting with his solo tour.
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