Slipknot drummer Eloy Casagrande has revealed that the band have started “working on some new ideas” and is gearing up to record a new album.
Eloy Casagrande, the drummer for Slipknot, has shared a rare update confirming the masked metal group has been hard at work writing new music.
In an interview with Drummer’s Review, the former Sepultura drummer revealed that the band had been “cooking” and exchanging ideas on material.
“We keep exchanging guitar riffs, drum beats, so we are always doing something,” he shared. “We have a lot of material right now, we just have to sit and put everything together, start jamming, and it’s happening… New material is coming for sure.”
When a new album is released, it will be the first recorded material with Casagrande behind the kit. The new drummer would replace Jay Weinberg early last year and has quickly been embraced by the fanbase, noting the drummer’s intensity and speed.
Slipknot previously teased the new song ‘Long May You Die’ back in May of 2024 and has yet to be released (if it ever will). In May of this year, guitarist Jim Root also revealed he had at least six song ideas for the new album and said he wanted to “revisit the raw energy of how those first two records were recorded.”
The band has also just celebrated its 25th anniversary tour last year, and has announced a re-master of their 1999 self-titled record, which should be on the horizon; however, Root himself admitted, “I don’t have any news as to when it’s happening, but it is happening.”
Slipknot released their seventh and most recent album, The End, So Far, in 2022. The LP would receive positive reviews, with outlets like Kerrang praising the album’s direction and noting it was more than an assembly of loosely connected songs. AllMusic writer James Christopher Monger would be more divided in his enthusiasm for the album, admitting it “may not be a home run, but it proves that the band are still in it to win it, even if they’re playing the long game.”
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