Slipknot, by Evil Robb Photography
In a new interview with M. Shawn Crahan of Slipknot, he revealed that ten years ago he, Corey Taylor, Jim Root, and DJ Sid Wilson collaborated and recorded a stand-alone side project, while the band was recording All Hope Is Gone (Roadrunner). Not it seems this album will the light of day, since prior to now “it wasn’t the right time”. One of the tracks intended for the Slipknot members’ side project was ‘Til We Die,’ featured on the digipak release of All Hope Is Gone.
Crahan commented:
“There’s a collection of songs that were recorded, 11 I think, I’ve held on to them for 10 years because it hasn’t been right, and I’m going to let you know now that it’s feeling right.
“Is it Slipknot? No, it’s not Slipknot. Is it four members of Slipknot? Yes. It’s four members of Slipknot. Is it music being written at the same time as ‘All Hope Is Gone’? Absolutely.
“Jim would write guitar then go down and play guitar on the album, then come up and finish playing guitar on the song. That’s how we’d kill time during those four months.”
“There’s a big collection of music, it’s fucking really amazing. It’s so amazing it had to be held back to wait for the right time, it’s been 10 years. It wasn’t going to be one of those things to loosely go out and confuse everyone, and piss everyone off.
“I’m not going to put music out to spite people — we do things the right way in this camp. The right way is that sooner or later, people need to be made aware of it because it’s the truth. It happened. We spent time doing it, we worked it every day, we mixed it, we mastered it, there’s artwork. It’s amazing stuff. But it’s all got to be right in the story of Slipknot.”
The 10th-anniversary edition of All Hope Is Gone will be released on December 7th. The package will feature re-imagined artwork and a bonus disc containing an audio recording of the band’s 2009 headlining concert at Madison Square Garden.