Slipknot fans had to wait more than six years between the release of All Hope Is Gone ands 2014's chart topping .5: The Gray Chapter but the next wait for music from the metal group may be much shorter. A recent interview with Music Radar found guitarists Jim Root and Mick Thomson suggesting that the band would like to get back into the studio as soon as its current tour lets up, meaning a new album could be ready as early as late 2015/early 2016.
Thomson said that band has been writing in between shows while on tour in the United States.
"It enables us to have songs in the can already before we go in a studio to work on a new album. We hope to do our next record sooner after touring," Thomson said during the interview. "We don't want to spend the same amount of time between albums as we've done with the last two."
The question, of course, is how soon Slipknot will be done touring off of the current album in order to get to the steady for an extended period of time. Right now the band's website lists tour dates through the beginning of March, playing concert dates and festivals in Europe and Australia, and then a three month gap until the beginning of June, where the band will return to Europe for summer festivals. Don't be fooled however: It's unlikely the band will have time to hit the studio during the gap, as the band has been confirmed in the press (although not on the website) as headliners for American festivals during that period, including Ohio's Rock on The Range and Charlotte's Carolina Rebellion.
What do you think about the quick return to the studio? Happy about the prospect of new music sooner than later or do you think the extended-period system has worked out thus far, so why change it?
