Slipknot have finished recording their upcoming album: “I think it’s probably gonna be another three months from now”

US metal giants Slipknot have finished recording their next studio album, their seventh in a row, with producer Joe Bares (Baroness, Tool, Queens Of The Stone Age) and it is currently in the mixing stage.

The band’s singer Corey Taylor has revealed in a recent interview with Sirius XM that the band has already come up with a title and cover art for the album.

Taylor said the following about the album, which is expected to be released in May 2022:

“The record is actually in the process of being mixed right now. Everything is finished, so it’s just being mixed right now, which is rad news. So it’s probably gonna take… I think it’s probably gonna be another three months [before it is released]. The artwork’s done. We just came up with the title. I’m not gonna tell you it right now. But we’re really stoked. So hopefully three months from now — well, less than that — we’ll get the single out, and then three months from now we’ll get the album out.”

Taylor described the material on the upcoming album as darker than the band’s previous album “We Are Not Your Kind”, but also very melodic. He said the following about the album:

“It’s really killer, man. It’s darker than ‘We Are Not Your Kind‘, but there’s a ton of melody. I’ve been telling everybody that it’s like a heavier version of ‘Vol. 3‘. It’s got so many textures and layers. The heavy stuff has attack but the melodic stuff you can just sink your teeth in; there’s a lot of great melodies and hooks. I’m really, really excited for people to hear it.”