Slipknot Recording New Alubum In Huanted House

Slipknot's Joey Jordison has spoken exclusively to Kerrang! about recording their forthcoming album. The drummer has revealed that the band are currently working and living together in a haunted house in Los Angeles. "The house was built in 1918," says Jordison. "It's pretty much a mansion and it's very haunted.You'll be standing there,getting literally pushed,and look around and there's no-one there that could do that.My door would open at 9-9:30am for the first two weeks until I put a brick in front of it to stop that happening." Helmed by Slayer/SOAD producer Rick Rubin,Jordison,who's keeping song titles and details of the band's new masks tightly under wraps,says the as-yet-untitled new album sees Slipknot swerve in their most experimental direction yet. "This time we've got timpanies,we've got moog keyboards," he reveals, "There's a bunch of weird stuff as far as sounds and experimentation goes;it's a bit more out there and a bit more spacey.It's almost as if Slayer was tapping on Radiohead.I don't want that to freak anyone out,but that's just where we're at right now." With all side-project related disputes behind them,Jordison also reports that the atmosphere of friendship and creativity in the Slipknot camp has never been rosier. "This is just a big house where we all get to live together," he adds. "Me and Shawn wrote songs together and that never happened before.Me and Mick write stuff together , and that's never happened before. As reflected on the album and it's going to be the best f**king album we've ever turned out." Slipknot's third album is due out next April. Check out next week's Kerrang! for an exclusive Slipknot interview.

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