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Slipknot Begins New Album Sessions, Sells Back Catalog

7/16/2026

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Slipknot began recording their next album with producer Matt Wallace and drummer Eloy Casagrande.
Jim Root said the band has at least 50 arrangements and holds two-hour jam sessions.
Michael Shawn Crahan cues Wallace during jams while Root says tracks blend grind-picking riffs, melodic heavy parts, doomy passages and interludes, not nu-metal.
The band sold its back-catalog to HarbourView Equity Partners, covering publishing and master royalties but not future releases.

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Slipknot began recording their next album with producer Matt Wallace and drummer Eloy Casagrande.
Jim Root said the band has at least 50 arrangements and holds two-hour jam sessions.
Michael Shawn Crahan cues Wallace during jams while Root says tracks blend grind-picking riffs, melodic heavy parts, doomy passages and interludes, not nu-metal.
The band sold its back-catalog to HarbourView Equity Partners, covering publishing and master royalties but not future releases.