{"id":551789,"date":"2026-07-15T23:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551789\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T23:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:58:15","slug":"producer-of-new-slipknot-album-revealed-jim-root-shares-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551789\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer of New Slipknot Album Revealed, Jim Root Shares Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time since 2022, it appears that Slipknot<\/a> are making headway on a new studio with guitarist Jim Root<\/a> revealing the name of the producer they’re working with, among other details.<\/p>\n

There’s “at least like 50 arrangements” already being worked\u00a0on with\u00a0producer Matt Wallace\u00a0overseeing the sessions thus far.<\/p>\n

The past few years have kept Slipknot busy.<\/p>\n

Since the release of 2020’s\u00a0The End, So Far,\u00a0Slipknot also ventured out on an anniversary tour in support of their 1999 self-titled breakout album, saw two lineup changes and finally released the long-shelved project\u00a0Look Outside Your Window<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, they’re looking ahead to new material, their first with drummer Eloy Casagrande<\/a> and the still unknown replacement for Craig Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What Jim Root Has Said About New Slipknot Music<\/p>\n

While appearing on the Ride Bynd podcast<\/a>, Root shared, “This new album we\u2019re working on, that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing, we\u2019re just jamming and Clown<\/a>\u2018s arranging. He\u2019s taking things that Eloy and I are playing, or me and Eloy and [Michael]\u00a0Pfaff <\/a>are playing, or he\u2019s even sitting in on the jams. We\u2019ll jam for like an hour-and-a-half, two hours and we might get four song ideas out of that and then we just spend time arranging and it\u2019s so organic and it\u2019s so real. It\u2019s almost frightening.”<\/p>\n

Later within the chat, he added,\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s a new life with this stuff. And having Eloy helps, man. He\u2019s such a talented human being and he lives, eats like the samurai, the master. He has that. He has that quality. He lives, eats and breathes his drums … He\u2019s very knowledgeable. He\u2019s very technical. But he also is very\u2026 he can lay back and get experimental \u2014 like even like Phil Collins<\/a>\/Genesis<\/a> experimental. And his range of influences is so infinite. I\u2019ll throw a drummer\u2019s name on, like [The Police<\/a>‘s] Stewart Copeland<\/a> or something like that and he\u2019ll be like, \u2018Oh, oh’ and he\u2019ll try to like hit that mode. And there\u2019s so many drummers that he looks up to that I\u2019m not even aware of. So I\u2019m learning shit from him, too. So it\u2019s really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Jim Root Had to Say About His Own Writing<\/p>\n

Though a member of Slipknot for close to three decades, Root says he’s still making progress as a writer.<\/p>\n

“For the first time, I\u2019m listening to some of these arrangements as they\u2019re growing. And this is the closest I\u2019ve heard to the music that I can hear in my head that I can\u2019t get out that I\u2019ve ever been. And it\u2019s exciting. And it\u2019s like breathing a new life into wanting to create,” Root enthused.<\/p>\n

“If I had it my way, I\u2019d have a studio behind my house and I would spend every waking hour in that studio only taking breaks to jump into a RZR [sport utility vehicle] and rip through the desert to clear my head to come back and work at music again.”<\/p>\n

What Does Slipknot’s New Music Sound Like?<\/p>\n

Though the band spent plenty of time in recent years revisiting their 1999 debut, Root shared,\u00a0\u201cThe new shit we\u2019re writing does not sound like that at all. We\u2019re not de-evolving into that sort of thing. There\u2019s elements of it. I mean, we write how we write. So, we\u2019re always going to have a little bit of a vibe, but you know, you\u2019re not going to hear, for lack of a better term, a \u2018nu-metal record\u2019 out of us, if that makes any sense.”<\/p>\n

Root then offered, “We\u2019re working with Matt Wallace right now to write this stuff and there\u2019s times where we just kind of sit back and we\u2019re listening to what I just worked on and I\u2019m just like, \u2018Wow this is wild. This sounds like nothing I\u2019ve ever heard before.’ Yet there\u2019s a familiarity to it that feels like I\u2019ve been listening to it my whole life and it\u2019s just so organic. It\u2019s just Slipknot music.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Corey Taylor Explains the Purpose of Using Kegs in Slipknot’s Music<\/a><\/p>\n

As for the influence of new members, he adds, “It\u2019s Slipknot, so we\u2019re going to have a sound. But at the same time, having Eloy in the band is like such an honor to be able to jam with that guy …. But the way we\u2019re approaching this, which is similar to the way it was being approached in the beginning, is like a garage band sort of vibe.”<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s so organic and so honest and it\u2019s so open to interpretation,” says the guitarist of the music. “I couldn\u2019t tell you what the direction of this next record is going to be. I know I\u2019m writing some of the fastest like grindpicking riffs, some of the most melodic, like heavy, like doomy kind of riffs. A lot of like really pretty, you know just beautiful like clean interludes and things like that that are finding their way into these songs. A lot of just experimental \u2014 I don\u2019t want to say Pink Floyd<\/a> \u2014 but maybe somewhere in that wheelhouse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slipknot’s Jim Root Speaks With Ride Bynd<\/p>\n

At present, there is no official album or song titles that were revealed by Root or a definitive timeline of when a new album might be released.<\/p>\n

But the interview did provide one of the first acknowledgments that work, in earnest, has begun on their next studio album. In addition, the band’s tour schedule is completely clear meaning that focus can firmly be on new music at this point in time.<\/p>\n

Below, see a listing of all of the musicians who’ve been part of Slipknot over the years.<\/p>\n

All 19 Musicians Who’ve Been in Slipknot<\/p>\n

Below is every musician who’s been counted as an official member of Slipknot from its formation in 1995 through the 2020s.<\/p>\n

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