SLIPKNOT Is Taking A Breather, But A New Album Is Brewing Says CLOWN

Slipknot are taking a much-needed pause — but fans can rest easy knowing new music is on the horizon. In a candid NME interview, Clown explained the band is hitting pause after the relentless cycles of The End, So Far and 2019’s We Are Not Your Kind.

“We’re doing the biggest thing we can do right now, which is taking a much-needed break,” he says. The grueling back-to-back schedules left him feeling burnt out, and he suspects he isn’t alone. “We’re taking some real human time. Everybody is writing all the time, but we have not got into a place to work on what’s been written.”

There are tentative plans for the band to regroup later this month — if everyone is up for it. Clown added, “It feels very positive and everyone is looking forward to getting back at it.”

Slipknot‘s new drummer, Eloy Casagrande, has also offered fans a glimpse into the studio process. Speaking to Drummer’s Review in October 2025, he confirmed the band is actively writing and jamming: “What I can tell you right now is that we are cooking, we are doing some new music, for sure. Yes, we are,” Casagrande said.

“Since I joined the band, we have been working on some new ideas. We keep exchanging guitar riffs, drum beats, so we are always doing something.

“We had also some jam sessions. So we have a lot of material right now. We just have to sit and put everything together, start jamming, and it’s happening. It already happened. It’s gonna happen in the future. So new material is coming, for sure.”

While fans have been waiting on the track “Long May You Die”, teased in May 2024, it remains unreleased — possibly their first new song together with Casagrande behind the kit. Meanwhile, guitarist Jim Root has hinted at a return to Slipknot‘s earlier, rawer roots: “I want to make a raw album that kind of like, you know, I don’t ever want to repeat myself, we don’t as a band ever want to repeat ourselves.

“But I would like to revisit the raw energy of how those first two records were recorded and even into the Vol. 3 record…. There’s just something really stripped down and punk rock about it and I think we’ve been missing that on our past few records and I think it’s time to get back to that in some ways.”