JOEY JORDISON Believes There Will Be More SLIPKNOT Albums

April 25, 2004

In a recent interview with Kansas City's The Pitch, SLIPKNOT drummer Joey Jordison spoke about whether the group will be able to stay together long enough to record the follow-up to their forthcoming CD, "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Tapes)". "We're going to make it through this tour," Jordison said. "And I'm thinking we're going to make another record. I know [singer] Corey [Taylor] probably said some things [in the past about the band breaking up] that were a little bit misconstrued at the time, and he doesn't feel like that anymore. We're getting along really well, which is a little strange. There's always been really distinct personalities in the band. We all love each other, but at the same time, it's like, 'I'm gonna kill you, dude.' It's just like that in our band. It's just tension, and if it wasn't for that type of mentality, we wouldn't have the band that we have and we wouldn't have the sound that we have."

Jordison also discussed the musical direction of the upcoming "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Tapes)" effort, which he claimed contains "melancholy, haunted, freaked-out, really eerie" music that owes a greater debt to PINK FLOYD's space rock than it does to SLAYER's headbanging.

"It's a ballsy-ass move for a band like us, and we like that type of challenge," the drummer said. "Nonetheless, there's blast beats, fucking shredding guitar solos and metal up your ass all over the record. It's heavy. It's very heavy. The heaviest songs we've ever done are on this record. But it's not linear heavy — it's dynamic."

White SLIPKNOT haven't always been the darlings of the mainstream press, they have been successful in attracting hordes of rabid devotees — affectionately christened maggots — who do just about anything to prove their dedication.

"These guys, there must have been like 12 of 'em or something, they spelled out People = Shit," Jordison recalled. "They carved it — each guy had a carved letter in their back. They were standing outside our buses with their shirts off, bloody as shit. I think a lot of kids just want to show their appreciation, and sometimes they think that's the way to get our attention, which it obviously does. But at the same time, I don't want people going out harming themselves like that." [Read more]

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