Jim Root Wants To Release Another Slipknot Album Sooner Rather Than Later

Slipknot riff crusher Jim Root has revealed that he’s started writing new material for what he hopes will be the masked metal maniac’s sixth studio album.

The guitarist is still riding high on the success of last year’s critically-acclaimed comeback effort, .5: The Gray Chapter, which was six years in the making. But he doesn’t want to wait that long between albums again.

“We haven’t been able to do two albums back-to-back since our first one and Iowa,” Root tells the Des Moines Register in his native Iowa.

“We’re at a point in our career where the band is on top of its game. If we take two years or however long away, who knows if we could come back? Someone might decide they want direct or write, or other bands’ projects might take priority.”

The ‘knot axeman adds that he’s planning for the best, while expecting the worst. “I started writing again – hopefully the songs will be on a new Slipknot record. If not, I’ll find something else to do with them.”

Slipknot were in Australia earlier this year to headline Soundwave 2015, and they’re about to head to the UK to perform at the juggernaut Download festival.

Meanwhile, frontman Corey Taylor recently ranked all of Slipknot’s albums from worst to best. Check out his definitive list below.

Gallery: Corey Taylor Ranks Slipknot’s Entire Discography

Gallery: Slipknot @ Soundwave 2015, Melbourne / Photos By Brett Schewitz

Slipknot Albums As Ranked By Corey Taylor

Slipknot All Hope is Gone

5. All Hope Is Gone (2008) - "It just feels like a collection of songs, and not an album"
Slipknot Vol 3

4. Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses (2004) - "My problems with that album are my vocal performance, a lot of it. Because I was trying something different with my voice, and later I came to my senses and I was like, “Man I really don’t like what I’m doing with that,” as far as the heavy side goes. I was trying a different scream and it just didn’t work."
Slipknot Iowa

3. Iowa (2001) - "We recorded a lot of the album fucked up. But there’s something about the album that’s so visceral, and so dark, just insanely dark. You listen to that album and it doesn’t sound like anything else. The production is so thick, so in your face, and the aggression is so unchecked and fucking out there. You can see where we were trying to step out of where we had come from, and where we were going... We listened to it, and I was blown away by how heavy it was. Like holy shit. And honestly, I think that album would’ve had more impact if it wasn’t for 9/11, which a lot of people forget happened a week after Iowa came out.
Slipknot The Gray Chapter

2. .5: The Gray Chapter (2014) - "Even though the expectations were so high with our fans, the negative expectations were almost bigger from the people who’d been waiting for fucking years for us to fall on our face. So to come back, and not only to give them a one-two punch but also give those fuckers a kick right in the gooch, that was fucking beautiful, man. To come back out and be, ‘We’re going to be in your fucking face until the day we die, so go fuck yourselves’, that was a beautiful moment.”
Slipknot Self Titled

1. Slipknot (1999) - "It all started from the first album and all the crazy shit. Living off 20 bucks a week, having to hide your ramen because your asshole bandmates were trying to steal it... It was so insane, but it was so awesome because we were in it. All the talk, dreaming was over. It was time to do the work. And we did, the rest is fucking history man."