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During an appearance on the March 3 episode of Doug Bradley’s “Down To Hell” show, SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor was asked if there is a “hard release date” yet for the band’s upcoming follow-up to 2019’s “We Are Not Your Kind” album. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We don’t have a hard date yet ’cause we’re lazy and we’re still mixing the damn thing. I can tell you it’s completely recorded and we’re about halfway through mixing it. So, to me, I would say probably two or three months [from now]. That’s my ballpark. I’m hoping; I’m gonna push to get it out then — maybe summertime sometime.”

SLIPKNOT’s next LP is expected to include the single “The Chapeltown Rag” which was released last November. The effort was produced by Joe Barresi, who has previously worked with AVENGED SEVENFOLD, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE and CHEVELLE, among many others.

Last month, Taylor told SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” about the musical direction of the new SLIPKNOT material: “It’s really killer, man. It’s darker than ‘We Are Not Your Kind’, but there’s a ton of melody. I’ve been telling everybody that it’s like a heavier version of ‘Vol. 3[: (The Subliminal Verses)]’. It’s got so many textures and layers. The heavy stuff has attack but the melodic stuff you can just sink your teeth in; there’s a lot of great melodies and hooks. I’m really, really excited for people to hear it.”

In January, SLIPKNOT announced the 2022 iteration of its infamous “Knotfest Roadshow” tour. The trek will take place over two legs, both headlined by SLIPKNOT. The first leg will feature special guests IN THIS MOMENT and WAGE WAR. The second leg will feature special guests CYPRESS HILL and HO99O9.

The first leg of the 38-date tour, produced by Live Nation, kicks off in Fargo, North Dakota on Wednesday, March 16 and hits a further 17 cities before wrapping up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Sunday, April 17. The second leg kicks off on Wednesday, May 18 in University Park, Pennsylvania and hits a further 17 cites before culminating on Sunday, June 18 in Chula Vista, California.

“Knotfest Roadshow” 2022 will be part of Live Nation’s Live Stubs initiative which provides digital collectible NFT ticket stubs to ticket holders. Live Stubs will automatically be included with tickets purchased for the tour. Fans will also be able to view, share, gift, trade, and resell their live stubs on LiveNation.com.

“We Are Not Your Kind” was released in August 2019. The LP sold 118,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week of release to land at position No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Furthermore, the album made an impact worldwide with No. 1 debuts in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Australia, Canada, Japan, Ireland, Belgium, Portugal and Finland, as well as Top 5 debuts in Germany, France, Norway, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain and New Zealand.

GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Slash spoke to Canada’s iHeart Radio about what it’s like to be a father to sons London and Cash Hudson, both of whom have expressed interest in playing music. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I’ve got two kids that are both really musical, but one of ’em is more into hip-hop and techno kind of stuff, and then the other one, the older one [London], is the rock drummer. And his band [S8NT ELEKTRIC] just opened for DIRTY HONEY and MAMMOTH [WVH] in San Diego the other night. So that’s really sort of a trip for me. Because I was 19 when I joined GUNS N’ ROSES and he’s 19 now and he’s in this band that’s out gigging all the time. So it’s really sort of surreal.”

He continued: “As a rock dad, I’m just supportive. I try not to get too involved. I’m not a ‘soccer mom’ kind of dad — you know what I mean? — as far as the music is concerned. I don’t get in there and make my presence known. He just does what he does and if he needs any advice from me, then I’m around. But it’s cool. We text each other and I’m, like, ‘Yeah, I’m doing a gig in Michigan tomorrow,’ and he goes, ‘Yeah, I’m doing a gig in San Diego.’ And it’s just, like, we’re almost total peers. It’s a trip.”

London and Cash’s mother is Perla Ferrar, whom Slash divorced four years ago.

Around the time his second son was born, Slash told The Pulse Of Radio that becoming a family man helped settle him down. “I never actually was one of those guys that said I’m gonna be single forever and never have children,” he said. “I just never made plans for it, so when it happened, it was, like, at the perfect time in my life. It’s like, if it had happened a second earlier, I couldn’t have handled it, ’cause I was too out there. Then when the kids came, it actually sort of secured me, more than anything.”

Slash is promoting the new album from SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS, titled “4”, which was released on February 11 via Gibson Records in partnership with BMG. “4” is Slash’s fifth solo album and fourth overall with his band featuring Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums), Todd Kerns (bass, vocals) and Frank Sidoris (guitar, vocals).

Most of “4” was recorded over a 10-day period at Nashville’s RCA Studio A in April 2021. The LP was helmed by six-time Grammy-winning country music producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Travis Tritt) who shared the band’s desire to lay down the tracks live, in the studio including guitar solos and vocals — a first for the group.

SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS kicked off a North American headlining tour on February 8, in Portland, Oregon. The trek is hitting 28 major cities, including Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, Nashville, Dallas, Austin, Houston, and more, before wrapping up March 26 in Orlando, Florida.