SLIPKNOT's JIM ROOT: New Album To Contain A Lot Of Acoustic Guitar

May 10, 2004

SLIPKNOT guitarist Jim Root recently spoke to Tracy Ung of New University Newspaper about the group's expectations for their much-anticipated new album, "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)".

"It's great that [all of our previous releases went platinum], but I think that in life you have to set goals and I don't think we try to set goals on things like that. If it happens, it happens," Root said. "We're really lucky that we did something really great. I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

"There's a lot of stuff on this album that is really breaking down some barriers as to what SLIPKNOT is as a band. There's a lot of acoustic guitar on this — who would ever have thought that that would be on a SLIPKNOT record. There's not just sampling and DJ work, but there's actual keyboard work. If you hear a noise — just trying to go after it and emulate it."

Root also explained that the bandmembers have a greater appreciation for their collective chemistry than they did before.

"It is very difficult because you have nine different people, nine different personalities, nine different ideas ... but we do have the same goals," Root said. "Even like the coveralls and shit like that, we decided that we'll come up with a common theme or at least let everybody do their own theme. That's one of the things that we've all learned after stepping out of SLIPKNOT and then coming back to it after awhile.

"What we didn't think we could do before, we can do now." [Read more]

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