SLIPKNOT are currently working on their follow up album to 2019’s ‘We Are Not Your Kind’ and percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan has compared it to the band’s 2001 release ‘Iowa’.
In an interview with Metal Hammer, the SLIPKNOT founding member and percussionist confirmed the band is making an album similar to ‘Iowa’ and then… compared it to a “cobra in a basket.”
“Yes. Yes. This one is a cobra in a basket. You can either know how to play the instrument, or you can take the circumstance. This is real. But you’re gonna open the basket. You’re going to play, you’re going to charm and be charmed.
“What are you going to do when you’re the Clown and you’re stuck at home? I got busy writing. We got busy thinking and feeling. We got busy loving and taking it in. I had the leisure to do it in my own sanctuary and have beautiful people show up and just eat peppers from my garden after writing music.”
In other SLIPKNOT news, the band just announced their tour with KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, FEVER 333 and CODE ORANGE. The tour will kick off in Tinley Park, IL on September 28 a few days after Knotfest Iowa 2021 wraps up.
SLIPKNOT tour dates with KILLWITCH ENGAGE, FEVER 333 and CODE ORANGE
9/25 Des Moines, IA @ National Balloon Classic Field
9/28 Tinley Park, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
9/29 Milwaukee, WI @ American Family Insurance Amphitheater
10/1 Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
10/2 Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
10/3 Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lake Amphitheater
10/5 Syracuse, NY @ Lakeview Amphitheater – Syracuse
10/8 Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center
10/9 Hartford, CT @ XFINITY Theatre
10/10 Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
10/12 Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion
10/13 Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
10/17 Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
10/19 Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
10/20 West Palm Beach, FL @ iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
10/22 Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
10/23 Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
10/24 Pelham, AL @ Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
10/26 Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP
10/28 Del Valle, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater
10/29 The Woodlands, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
10/30 Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion
11/1 Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater
11/2 Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion
