Slipknot's New Drummer Reveals Band is Working on New Music
The percussive heartbeat of one of metal's most visceral institutions is thrumming with new life, as Slipknot's freshly anointed drummer, Eloy Casagrande, has let slip that the band has new music 'cooking. ' This revelation, dropped during a session with Drummer’s Review, isn't just a piece of news; it's a seismic event for the Maggots who have been holding their breath since the release of 'The End, So Far' three years ago—an album that now feels like a prelude to a new, as-yet-unnamed chapter.Casagrande’s arrival itself is a story worthy of a concept album; the Brazilian powerhouse, known for his technically ferocious work with Sepultura, wasn't just filling a seat vacated by the popular Jay Weinberg but was stepping onto a stage that is as much a ritualistic battleground as it is a concert venue. The history of Slipknot is written in polyrhythms and personnel changes, a discography punctuated by the departure of founding drummer Joey Jordison in 2013, a wound that the band and its fans felt deeply.Weinberg’s subsequent decade-long tenure was a testament to resilience, a powerful bridge between eras, but his unexpected dismissal in late 2023 sent shockwaves through the community, leaving a question mark hanging over the future of the band's sound. Now, with Casagrande behind the kit, we're not just witnessing a replacement; we're witnessing a reinvention.His style—a blistering fusion of raw power and samba-inflected technical virtuosity—promises to inject a new, unpredictable energy into Slipknot’s foundational chaos. Imagine the tribal, almost primal drumming of their self-titled era colliding with the progressive complexity of 'Iowa' and the melodic undercurrents of their more recent work, all filtered through a player whose limbs seem to operate with independent, hurricane-force intelligence.The phrase 'cooking' is beautifully apt; it suggests a process, an alchemy. It’s not a finished product being hastily microwaved, but a slow-burning stew of ideas in the rehearsal space, a clatter of riffs, samples from Sid Wilson, and percussive experiments from Shawn 'Clown' Crahan and Michael Pfaff that are slowly coalescing into what will become the next Slipknot record.This isn't merely about writing new songs; it's about the new nine-piece organism learning to breathe together, finding its collective pulse with a new rhythmic captain. Corey Taylor’s lyrical catharsis, Jim Root and Mick Thomson’s dueling guitar savagery, the textural nightmares provided by Craig Jones' successor—all of these elements must now sync with Casagrande’s blast beats and ghost notes.The broader context here is a metal landscape that has evolved significantly since 2022, with genres cross-pollinating and audience expectations shifting. For Slipknot to re-emerge now is to step back into a fray where they are both elder statesmen and perpetual innovators, a band forever expected to top its own controlled insanity.The pressure is immense, but pressure is the environment in which diamonds—or in this case, the jagged, beautiful shards of a new mask—are formed. The consequence of this 'cooking' could be a career-defining renaissance, a record that recontextualizes their entire legacy, or it could be a fascinating, flawed experiment. Either way, the mere fact that the pot is on the stove, simmering with the promise of fresh agony and ecstasy, is enough to make the wait feel like part of the ritual, the anxious, thrilling prelude to the next explosion.
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Jamie Larson123k2 days ago
wait what they already working on new stuff tbh i just hope its better than the last one
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Jamie Larson123k2 days ago
reading this at 3 am and it all feels weirdly profound or maybe i just need to go to bed idk
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