Former SLIPKNOT drummer Joey Jordison has told Metal Hammer magazine that he has a pile of unreleased demos at home that were originally meant for his former band.
He said: “I have a ton of SLIPKNOT demos that I have at home. Maybe some day they’ll surface, maybe they’ll never be heard, but I don’t translate them to any other band; they still stay in the SLIPKNOT safe. I won’t use them for anyone else besides SLIPKNOT, if that ever happens again.”
Asked if he still writes music in the style of SLIPKNOT, Jordison replied: “It depends. I play guitar all the time and I’m constantly thinking of songs. I sleep music. I wake up and there’s a riff in my head, every step I take there’s a riff, a beat, or something. That’s the way a musician is. You’re isolated in a weird way because music is haunting you as much as it’s loving you. It’s non-stop. Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs [for] all different bands I’ve been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with SLIPKNOT and I just can’t use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened. It just stays in the bank and I can’t use it for anything else; I just won’t do it.”
