Slipknot took more than six years between releases All Hope Is Gone and .5: The Gray Chapter but it's already scheming its next album: An epic double-album on the scale of Pink Floyd's The Wall or The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Frontman Corey Taylor also threw out Prince's Purple Rain as a comparison point, as he plans of having a full-length film to accompany the music. Oh?
"The idea that we had was to kind of come up with the concept and then provide the soundtrack for it," the vocalist said in a radio interview this week. "But then I told them the other day...I was like 'Let's take it even further and let's make our Purple Rain, let's make our The Wall.' With a movie - not just the album, but do the movie... like, do everything. And they were pretty into it."
Understand, of course, that just because the band has an idea doesn't mean it's going to start releasing albums every other year. Such a magnum opus will probably require some time. And funding. It seems all hands are on deck however, as Shawn "Clown" Crahan—one of the spokespersons for the group—also expressed interest in an "art record."
"Man, we've gotta write an art record. We've gotta write our Wall, Sgt. Pepper's...whatever you wanna say," he said. And that's where I'm at...We've got so many records on our record deal. We've done five. I'd love it if we could do a double album, just...have a concept, maybe make a movie. I mean, things that have all been done, things that have all been done before, but, you know, our way, our interpretation."
So Purple Rain had a pretty cool purple motorcycle...but we'd have to imagine Slipknot's masterpiece would be a little more Mad Max in terms of car chases. But perhaps we're jumping to conclusions. Perhaps Taylor's masked character will end up similar to the Phantom of The Opera: a creepy, misunderstood romantic.
