Slipknot waren für die Aufnahmen ihres neuen Albums scheinbar schlecht vorbereitet

Entschuldigt sich hier etwa jemand jetzt schon ein paar Tage vor Release des neuen Albums für mögliche Makel? In Sachen Promo sind wir ja sonst nur Superlative gewohnt. Ausgerechnet bei einem kommenden Werk aus dem Hause Slipknot aber vorab schon aufkeimende Defizite zu hören, ist dann doch mal etwas unerwartet anderes.

Slipknot-Gitarrist spricht über Schwierigkeiten rund um neues Album

Bekanntlich hauen die ja bereits diesen Freitag ihr neues Album „The End, So Far“ raus an die Öffentlichkeit. Zumindest einer scheint aber nicht so wirklich in Promo-Stimmung zu sein – es handelt sich hierbei um Gitarrist Jim Root.

In einem Interview mit Music Radar schildert dieser schonungslos-ehrlich die pandemiebedingten Hürden rund um den Entstehungs- und Aufnahmeprozess.

Sowohl er als auch M. Shawn „Clown“ Crahan heg(t)en sichtlich Zweifel in Bezug auf das nahende Endresultat. Laut Root habe man im Zuge des Prozesses mit so einigen Hindernissen auskommen müssen, angefangen damit, dass die Scheibe quasi ein reines Studioprojekt sei, bedingt durch den zurückliegenden Lockdown.

Der Musiker empfindet laut seiner Aussagen zudem, dass man die Zusammenarbeit mit Producer Joe Barresi (immerhin verantwortlich für Werke von Tool, Queens Of The Stone Age und weiteren Hochkarätern) nicht in „vollständigem Maße“ ausgereizt habe.

Seine vollständigen Gedanken haben wir euch im Folgenden beigefügt.

Ob die scheinbaren Problemchen tatsächlich wirklich herauszuhören sind, erfahren wir alle dann natürlich ab diesem Freitag bei Release.

Jim Root über den schwierigen Entstehungsprozess von „The End, So Far“

„…Joe Barresi is an amazing producer. He has got an amazing track record, and I feel that we weren’t prepared for Joe Barresi, and I feel like we were not able to use Joe Barresi to his fullest extent, y’know what I mean? We did not do pre-production. We essentially built this record in the studio, and a lot of that was due to Covid, and us being separated, and the circumstances led us to do the record the way it was done.

With my mindset being the way it was, I didn’t have a ton of creative input. I felt kinda rushed trying to come up with ideas for this or that arrangement. We weren’t rehearsed as a band. We did not come in knowing the songs top to bottom, and that affected the record.

That put us behind schedule. It had us, not really arguing and fighting with each other, but trying to figure it out, like, ‘What is the best way to approach this knowing that we are doing what we are doing?’

Movie directors will say constantly that they never finish a movie, they just abandon them! I feel like, more than anything with this record, we had to abandon it and move on

You can make a plan, and you can plan as much as you want, but the big clock above your head and the budget from the label, and all this stuff, the studio we were at and the scheduling of that, there are so many factors that were against us making this record that I am surprised we were able to finish it.

And then it is taking us so long to get it out compared to how long it took us to track it! It’s like, well, if it has taken this long to get it out then we could have taken our fucking time with pre-production, and, in my mind, put out a better product. And that’s not to say that we’re disappointed with what we are putting out; it’s where we are at. It’s what we were able to do, given the circumstances, and the things that we had to work with.

But it’s like the movies. Directors will say constantly that they never finish a movie, they just abandon them! I feel like, more than anything with this record, we had to abandon it and move on from it.

And Clown was like, ‘It’s not a record! It’s not a Slipknot record! We are still touring on ‘We Are Not Your Kind‘, on that tour, and by the way here are some songs…’ Well, you can say that, but we are putting a fucking record out and to the fans this is a fucking Slipknot record. No matter what you say, that’s what it is.“

Foto im Auftrag von MoreCore.de: Pia Böhl (piaboehl)