Shawn Crahan says Slipknot have written so many songs for their eighth album that a ninth could follow it straight away, and that a double record is possible without being planned.
"We have so many songs that Corey has sung on for rough demos," the percussionist told Rock Sound after the magazine put him in its Hall Of Fame. "We had not foreseen what has happened, which is effortless recording and fun. Eloy is forcefully feeding the machine, and when you do that with old dogs, they smile and just want to jam. So technically, I guess we could have a ninth too. We could have a double album. I'm not telling you we're doing that. I'm just telling you, number eight's coming out."
He also set an expectation about what the record sounds like. "This new one is probably going to take people a little time because it's long songs and definitely a musician's album."
It follows what the drummer has been saying for months. We wrote in August that Eloy Casagrande put the count at many, many songs, and the drums were finished before that. Album eight has no title and no date.