Slipknot is hoping to finish working on their seventh studio album by the end of July. In a radio interview, M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan said, “I believe that this album is… It’s God music, man. It’s the center of the beast for me. This is a whole other element.” He added, “”We’re hoping to be done by the end of July.”
He continued, “We as a band have been trying to facilitate certain ideas in recording and songwriting. Songwriting isn’t always just giving our fans ‘Psychosocial‘s and ‘Surfacing‘s — without saying it, sometimes we can write those songs in our sleep; it’s so in us. It’s what we don’t know and what we don’t know how to pull out is what is the love for humanity. I wanna make a difference.”
Crahan later said that the album would “hopefully” be released by the end of the year, adding, “we still have a lot of time to complete this” and “We’re hoping to be done by the end of July.”